41 of the top junior players in Canada will be on the ice in Quebec during the first week of August vying for a spot in the Canadian National Junior Team, and Brayden Point will be one of them.
The Moose Jaw Warriors' star forward was invited to Hockey Canada's World Junior Summer Development Camp, which will run from August 3-8 in Brossard, Montreal and Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Point is well known in the Hockey Canada cycles after representing his country and winning medals on three previous occasions, including bronze at the 2014 World Under-18 Hockey Championship, gold at the 2013 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament – in which he was Canada's top player in the championship game – and silver with Team Pacific at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
This will cap off a busy summer for the 18-year-old as he looks to get drafted in the NHL Draft later this week.
Point led the Warriors in scoring last season with 36 goals and 91 points in 72 games, making him the highest scoring 1996-born player in the Western Hockey League. He has 61 goals and 149 points in 144 career WHL games.
16 players from the WHL were invited to the camp, which will see Canada play in four exhibition games over the six-day camp. They'll square off with the Czech Republic on Tuesday, August 5th and Friday, August 8th, and take on Russia on Wednesday, August 6th and Thursday, August 7th.
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