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Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images Out of all the years that I’ve been doing these Dallas Stars prospect rankings for Defending Big D, this edition has definitely been the trickiest to put together. It’s always a little bit challenging to take each year’s draft crop, a bunch of fresh-faced 18- and 19-year-olds, and slot them in alongside guys who are already knocking on the NHL’s door. This time around there’s also a talented free-agent signing out of the NCAA to include, while someone who once made it inside the top 10 missed the entire 2020 calendar year due to injury, mak...

Byfield, Dach lead Canada World Junior Championship roster No. 2 pick by Kings, Blackhawks forward among six returning players by Adam Kimelman @NHLAdamK / NHL.com Deputy Managing Editor Quinton Byfield, selected by the Los Angeles Kings with the No. 2 pick of the 2020 NHL Draft, is one of six players returning for Canada at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship. The forward, who was named to the final 25-player roster announ...

TSN Hockey Reporter Mark Masters reports on the World Junior Hockey Championship. Team Canada practised on Friday at the Westerner Park Centrium in Red Deer, Alta.  Kamloops Blazers forward Connor Zary woke up early on Friday morning. It was hard to sleep knowing Hockey Canada's final cuts were looming. Then he he heard a knock at the door.  "All the coaching staff and management was outside and Bear [head coach Andre Tourigny] handed me his phone right away and it was my family and I knew," the Calgary Flames 2020 first round pick said. "But when they said those words, that I was g...