Forward Liam Arnsby of this North Bay Battalion is one of 13 Ontario Hockey League players realized by Hockey Canada as people who’d have attended a camp to get an opportunity to vie for a spot in the Canadian summer Under 18 team at the 2020 Hlinka Gretzky Cup at Alberta.
The championship, scheduled for August 3-8 in Edmonton and Red Deer, had been canceled on April 28 due to this coronavirus pandemic. An overall total of 46 players, for example, 42 who played with one of three Canadian admissions on the planet Under 17 Hockey Challenge past November, were to have already been encouraged. Head trainer Alan Letang of the Owen Sound Attack was known as an assistant trainer, combined with nine OHL forward, including Liam Arnsby, two defencemen, and 2 goaltenders.
Liam Arnsby’s biography
Arnsby, a native of Ajax, Ont., played center and rightwing with all the Battalion in his newcomer OHL season following the club first-round option, ninth overall, at the 20-19 OHL Priority Selection from the Don Mills Flyers little midgets.
Liam Arnsby skated for Canada White from the World Under 17 Challenge at the Western Hemisphere League centers of Medicine Hat and Swift Current, drawing assist in six matches.
Additionally on the set of invitees into the camp would be goaltender Benjamin Gaudreau of this Sarnia Sting, that had been selected seventh overall in 20-19 from the North Bay Trappers minor midgets. Gaudreau, a Corbeil resident, also published a won-lost-extended listing of 10-13-1 with a 4.34 goals-against average along with an 890 save percent for Sarnia past season.
“It’s necessary for Hockey Canada to comprehend the task that the players and coaching team put into the plan the summer and also an opportunity to compete to get gold at home ice hockey,” Scott Salmond, mature vice-president of domestic teams such as Hockey Canada, said in a release Thursday.
“it had been a challenging choice to cancel the championship since it offers the chance to showcase the most notable Under 18 players, including Liam Arnsby. at a best-on-best global showcase. You wish to comprehend the 46 players along with also our three trainers to get this enormous achievement, and we anticipate seeing most of the players proceed to grow while they look ahead to next season and also an opportunity to compete at the (International Ice Hockey Federation) U 18 World Championship.”
