A pair of former Greater Vancouver Canadians standouts are headed to Canada's National Junior Hockey Team Summer Development Camp.
Goaltender Tristan Jarry and forward Nic Petan are among 41 players invited to the six day camp - slated for Aug. 3-8 in Montreal and Sherbrooke.
Both were key members of the Canadians during the 2010-11 B.C. Major Midget Hockey League season and went on to enjoy outstanding careers in the Western Hockey League.
Petan led the Canadians in scoring that year with 49 points in 35 games, while Jarry was among the league's top goaltenders. Greater Vancouver reached the semi-
finals before drop a heartbreaking series to semi-final series to eventual Western Canadian champion Vancouver Northwest Giants.
Petan, who grew in North Delta and played at the Bantam AAA level for the North Shore Winter Club, enjoyed three productive seasons in Portland, finishing second in league scoring this past season with 113 points in 63 games, despite missing some time to play for Canada at the World Junior Championships. He was taken 43rd overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.
Taken with the 42nd overall pick in the same draft by the Pittsburgh was Jarry, thanks to his stellar play with the Edmonton Oil Kings. He backstopped his team to the Memorial Cup championship this past spring that included a 16-4-1 record in the WHL playoffs with a 2.19 goals against average and a .925 save percentage. Jarry played his minor hockey in North Delta before joining the Canadians.
The Oil Kings route to the national title included a dramatic seven game series win over Petan's Winterhawks in the WHL finals. Jarry made 32 saves in the deciding game.
The national team summer camp will feature four goaltenders, 12 defencemen and 25 forwards, was selected by Ryan Jankowski, head scout of men's national teams for Hockey Canada, along with Hockey Canada vicepresident of hockey operations and national teams Scott Salmond and the Program of Excellence management group, including Sean Burke and Bruce Hamilton.
Jankowski will continue to monitor these players and other potential candidates during the first few months of the 2014-15 season and at the CHL Subway Super Series to determine who will be invited to Canada's National Junior Team selection camp in December.
In total, 22 players will be selected to represent Canada at the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship, Dec. 26, 2014 to Jan. 5, 2014 in Montreal and Toronto.
Canada's National Junior Team Sport Chek Summer Development Camp attendees will gather in Brossard at the Montreal Canadiens' practice facility for practices on Aug. 3 before playing the national junior teams of the Czech Republic and Russia.
