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The World Junior Championships, The Official Book of Team Canada from Eh to Zed

by Kevin Gibson

420 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0530; ISBN 1-4120-0162-5; US$35.00, C$49.99, EUR32.50, £22.60

Every NHL Player who has represented Canada

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About the Book The World Junior Championships, The Official Book of Team Canada from Eh to Zed is the first book of four. This first installment details every NHL player that has represented Canada at this tournament. All player profiles include home provincial flag, draft information, Junior, NHL and World Junior Statistics, Junior achievements and career transactions. This book also has all of Canada's records in the 30 years of Memorial Cup and NCAA Championships. The Foreword is written by Bob Nicholson, the President of the Canadian Hockey Association, and there is also a 10 question and answer section with at least one NHL player. This is the perfect book for the hockey fan, nearly 400 profiles of your favourite NHL superstars, over 400 pages of information about Canada and the World Junior Championships.

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About the Author Kevin Gibson was born in 1970 in North York, Ontario and presently resides in Whitby, Ontario. Kevin has been a freelance sportswriter wince 1998 and is a graduate of Centennial College. This is Kevin's first book.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Dedication
2 Acknowledgements and Copyright Disclosures
3 Foreword By Bob Nicholson
4 Introduction
5 Q & A With Szymon Szemberg
6 Memorial Cup and NCAA Champions
7 All Time Team Canada Results at WJC
8 Photo Gallery Part 1
9 Player Profiles 1-212
10 Photo Gallery Part 2
11 Player Profiles 216-424
12 Photo Gallery Part 3
13 Where They Won and Where They Are From
14 Leader Board and Author's All-Star Teams
15 Player List
16 The End

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INTRODUCTION

No sport receives more attention in Canada than hockey and what better way to enjoy hockey even more than putting out a series of books on NHL players who have represented Canada. Book one is on the World Junior Championships, book two the Olympics, book three the Summit Series/Canada/World Cup and finally book four will be on the World Championships. Why four books? Doing one book of over 800 players would be costly to print, costly to buy and would weigh about 100 pounds, by doing the four books fans can pick which ones they want or buy the whole set. To be eligible to have your name in these books you must have played at least one NHL game and have been on the roster of one of the above-mentioned, Team Canada teams. Why must you have played at least one NHL game? I figure if you are tied with me in NHL games played than the reader won't be too interested in your statistics. Therefore I decided on Canada's NHLers.

Book one is on the World Junior Championships, which unofficially commenced in 1974, officially commenced in 1977. Reason being, the International Ice Hockey Federation (see page two for IIHF information) had the first three tournaments as exhibition only, although there were medals won. The players from those teams are in this book; if statistics were kept and medals were given out then I figure it counts. In 1974 the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League represented Canada. The Petes also had twelve players represent Canada in 1980. In 1975 a collection of Western Hockey League All-Stars represented Canada. In 1976 the final unofficial tournament the Sherbrooke Beavers of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League laced up the skates for the Maple Leaf. For four out of the first five official tournaments, Canada sent the majority of the players from the defending Memorial Cup Champion, except for 1978 when an all-star junior team played for Canada. In 1977 eleven players from the St. Catharines Fincups and ten other players from around the CHL represented Canada. In 1979 eleven players from the New Westminster Bruins and nine others from the CHL played for Canada. In 1981 it was ten players from the Cornwall Royals and ten players from the CHL who played at the World Juniors. Since 1982 (the first time Canada won Gold) the best Canadian junior players (ALA 1978) in the world have represented Canada at this IIHF annual event.

What is the Memorial Cup? it is a trophy that has been awarded in Canada for junior hockey supremacy since 1919 and has been the Championship trophy of the Canadian Hockey League since 1972, the Champions of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the Western Hockey League (WHL), the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) and the events host city play for the Memorial Cup to determine Canada's junior champion. I do realise that the three major junior hockey leagues had different names over the year's i.e. Western Canadian Hockey League, Ontario Major Junior Hockey League etc. To make things simpler I just used the current names and initials in this book.

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