OHL Peterborough Petes

Ang, Timms and Wells to Compete at U17 World Hockey Championships

Published on October 2, 2014 under Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Peterborough Petes News Release


(Peterborough, ON, October 2, 2014) - Hockey Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Hockey League, announced Thursday the three Canadian rosters for the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, scheduled for Nov. 2-8 in Sarnia-Lambton, Ont. The Petes are excited to announce that three Peterborough players have been selected to compete for Team Canada.

Jonathan Ang, Peterborough's first round, 9th overall pick in the 2014 OHL Priority Selection will compete for Canada White at the tournament ( full Canada White roster).

Dylan Wells (2nd round, 21st overall), and Matt Timms (2nd round, 22nd overall) will both play for Canada Red ( full Canada Red roster). Peterborough is one of only four teams in the Canadian Hockey League (Blainville-Boisbriand, Brandon, and Vancouver), and the only Ontario Hockey League team to have three players competing at the prestigious tournament.

The tournament will be the first to feature three Canadian national teams - Black, Red and White. From 1986 to 2014, Canada was represented by five regional teams: Atlantic, Ontario, Pacific, Quebec and West.

The 24-game World Under-17 Hockey Challenge will be centered out of the RBC Centre, home of the OHL's Sarnia Sting, but will also feature games at The Shores Recreation

For more information on tickets, including how to purchase, call (519) 541-1717 or visit the RBC Centre box office.

The 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge will bring together the top players in the world born in 1998 or later. The under-17 program is the first step in Hockey Canada's Program of Excellence. Many players who compete at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge go on to represent Canada with Canada's National Men's Under-18 Team, National Junior Team and National Men's Team.

Since the first under-17 tournament (then known as the Quebec Esso Cup) in 1986, more than 1,300 NHL draft picks have played, including 11 of the last 14 first-overall selections (Ilya Kovalchuk, 2001; Rick Nash, 2002; Marc-André Fleury, 2003; Alexander Ovechkin, 2004; Erik Johnson, 2006; Patrick Kane, 2007; John Tavares, 2009; Taylor Hall, 2010; Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 2011; Nathan MacKinnon, 2013; Aaron Ekblad, 2014).

For more information on the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, please visit www.hockeycanada.ca/wu17, or follow along via social media at www.facebook.com/worldu17 or www.twitter.com/hc_wu17.

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