Montreal Canadiens: Habs to Watch at the 2013 World Junior Hockey Championship

December 22nd, 2012 by Ryan Szporer Leave a reply »
In a cruel twist of fate, Montreal Canadiens fans may find themselves cheering for each of the last three World Junior Hockey Championships winners and not Canada.

Montreal has two highly touted prospects playing in this year’s tournament: right-winger Sebastian Collberg of Sweden and center Alex Galchenyuk, who is of Russian descent, but will play for the United States.

Sweden won it all last year, preceded by Russia, and before that the U.S.A. won the gold, ending Canada’s most recent five-year reign of supremacy (Canada also won five straight gold medals from 1993-97).

Left-winger Charles Hudon, the Habs’ fifth-round pick from last summer’s draft had made the Canadian roster, but back problems are keeping him out of the lineup (via TSN.ca).

In a weird way, though, it’s really Galchenyuk and Collberg whom fans would be on the edge of their collective seat to see, anyway. Galchenyuk was Montreal’s 2011 first-round pick (third overall) and Collberg was the team’s second-round pick (33rd overall).

There was no 333rd pick, for your information, but I assume if there was he would have ...

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