Canada & United States 2022 World Junior Championship Preview | The Hockey Writers Prospects Corner

The Hockey Writers' prospects experts Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini, and Greg Boysen get together to preview the upcoming 2022 World Junior Championship with the next set of team previews. First, they discuss Connor Bedard, Owen Power, Sebastian Cossa and potential dark horses for Team Canada. Then, they jump into Team USA and discuss the defence led by Luke Hughes and Jake Sanderson and the offence led by the top line of Brett Berard, Matty Beniers and Matthew Coronato. They also talk about Drew Commesso as the starter taking over for Spencer Knight and some dark horses at forward and defence. Finally, they finish off the proceedings with some predictions on who will win the bronze medal and ultimately the gold medal and national pride. 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - Team Canada Preview 3:20 - Connor Bedard's WJC Debut 6:35 - Mason McTavish & Jake Neighbours' Impact 9:20 - Dark Horse Forwards 14:57 - Is this Owen Power's tournament? 17:14 - Other than Power, who will be important on defence? 19:13 - Team Canada's Goaltending 21:43 - Team USA Preview 22:38 - USA's Top Line: Berard - Beniers - Coronato 25:35 - Logan Cooley 28:01 - Dark Horse Forwards 32:30 - Does anyone have a chance at usurping Hughes & Sanderson? 33:56 - Other Defencemen To Watch 37:51 - Is Drew Commesso the de facto starter of Team USA? 42:01 - Tournament Final Predictions - Bronze & Gold 46:58 - Outro and Christmas wishes from everyone at Prospect Corner Check out The Hockey Writers' breakdown of Team Canada & Team USA's final rosters: Canada - https://thehockeywriters.com/2022-world-junior-championship-team-canada-final-roster/ United States - https://thehockeywriters.com/2022-world-junior-championship-team-usa-final-roster/ The THW Prospect Corner crew are great writers too: Matthew Zator - https://thehockeywriters.com/author/mzator Peter Baracchini - https://thehockeywriters.com/author/pbaracchini/ Greg Boysen - https://thehockeywriters.com/author/gboysen/ And, make sure to check out all our great prospects content - https://thehockeywriters.com/category/prospects/ Follow The Hockey Writers: Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheHockeyWriter Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thehockeywriters_ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheHockeyWriters Sign up for the "Morning Skate" newsletter - https://morningskate.io/ Join us in the Hockey Lounge on Discord to talk prospects and all things hockey - https://discord.gg/QTXKXSA54J Graphics by Vince Richard - https://www.behance.net/vincergraphics #WorldJuniors #IIHF #wjc2022