Anaheim Ducks forward prospect Max Comtois was named captain for Canada for the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship.
Forward Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Los Angeles Kings), and defensemen Evan Bouchard (Edmonton Oilers) and Ian Mitchell (Chicago Blackhawks) were named alternate captains.
Comtois had seven points (two goals, five assists) in 10 games for the Ducks. He last played in the NHL on Oct. 23 because of a lower-body injury and was returned to his junior team, Drummondville of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, on Nov. 24.
He is the only returning player from Canada’s 2018 WJC championship. Comtois had six points (three goals, three assists) and a plus-6 rating in seven games.
The 2019 WJC starts Wednesday and runs through Jan. 5 in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia. Canada, which will play its preliminary-round games in Group A, opens the tournament against Denmark at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET; TSN, NHLN [joined in progress]). Also in Group A are Czech Republic, Russia and Switzerland.
Group B, which will play its games at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, consists of Finland, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.
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