Tyler Cuma Invited To Camp....Afterall | 
Having so much promise coming into last year’s Canada’s National Junior team selection camp, Tyler Cuma’s World Junior dreams ended after suffering a knee injury during an intrasquad game. However, with news this morning that NCAA University of Denver defenceman Patrick Wiercioch was sent home due to a knee injury that he suffered prior to camp opening, Cuma is getting his well deserved second chance.
Cuma, who is expected to arrive tonight in time for the first Red-White scrimmage, was left off this year’s camp roster, and was quite shaken up about the whole situation.
“It’s tough knowing that it would have been my last shot at a World Junior and I thought my play was fine the last month and a half or so,” Cuma told the Associated Press. “But clearly there are other players that are doing better than me. I’m not going to sit here and dwell. I wish them all the best, whatever may come out of it.”
All those thoughts are out the window now, as he’ll get his chance to show the Canadian coaches that leaving him off the preliminary list was a mistake.
He will be in tough to make the team, as nine other defencemen were invited to camp including returnees Ryan Ellis, Alex Pietrangelo, and Colin Teubert.
The news of Wiercioch being sent home comes just a week after Vancouver Canucks prospect – and World Junior standout – Cody Hodgson informed Canadian officials that he would not be participating in the team’s selection camp.
There was no replacement named for Hodgson.
Team Canada opens it’s exhibition schedule in Regina, Saskatchewan on December 20th vs. Sweden
Topics: Alex Pietrangelo, Canada World Juniors, Cody Hodsgon, Colin Teubert, IIHF World Juniors, NCAA hockey, Patrick Wiercioch, Ryan Ellis, Saskatchewan, Team Canada, Tyler Cuma, University of Denver
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