Terriers Send Record Seven Players to World Junior Championship

A record seven Boston University men's ice hockey players – six Americans and one Canadian – will be competing at the 2017 World Junior Championship, beginning Monday (Dec. 26) in Montreal and Toronto.

Freshman defenseman Dante Fabbro was named to Team Canada's World Junior squad while four freshmen (Kieffer Bellows, Patrick Harper, Clayton Keller, Jake Oettinger) and two sophomores (Jordan Greenway, Charlie McAvoy) were selected to Team USA's roster.

Never before in the 41-year history of the tournament has a North American university or junior team had seven players at one World Junior Championship.

BU ties the record set by Minnesota in 1979 for most players on a U.S. World Junior team with six. More recently, the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League had six players across three countries at the 2010 World Junior tournament.

McAvoy, a defenseman who was named an assistant captain for Team USA, is making his second consecutive World Junior appearance and is now the 11th person to make back-to-back U.S. rosters at the tournament while playing for the Terriers. The other six are making their World Junior debuts.

Fabbro is the second Terrier in as many years to play for Canada at World Juniors after Brandon Hickey did so in 2016. Adrian Aucoin was the only other BU player to represent Canada at the tournament back in 1993.

Bellows, Harper, Greenway and Keller are four of the 13 forwards on this year's U.S. roster while Oettinger becomes the third BU goaltender to play in the World Juniors, joining Rick DiPietro and Cleon Daskalakis.

Last year, BU had four players representing three countries at the tournament. McAvoy and Brandon Fortunato were on Team USA, Hickey played for Canada and Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson became the first Terrier to ever make Sweden's squad. Current freshman Chad Krys, who was the final player cut from the U.S. squad on Friday, made last year's squad while playing for the U.S. National Under-18 Team.

USA and Canada are both in Group B at this year's tournament and will face off on New Year's Eve at 3 p.m.

The U.S. team plays Latvia in its opener at 3:30 p.m. on Monday in Toronto while Canada takes on Russia at 7 p.m. in the second half of the doubleheader.
A record seven Boston University men's ice hockey players – six Americans and one Canadian – will be competing at the 2017 World Junior Championship, beginning Monday (Dec. 26) in Montreal and Toronto.

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Terriers Send Record Seven Players to World Junior Championship

Players Mentioned

Kieffer Bellows

Dante Fabbro

Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson

Brandon Fortunato

Jordan Greenway

Patrick Harper

Brandon Hickey

Clayton Keller

Chad Krys

Charlie McAvoy

Jake Oettinger

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