{"id":324203,"date":"2025-11-26T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/324203\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:13:10","slug":"new-york-islanders-matthew-schaefer-will-not-be-loaned-to-team-canada-for-world-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/324203\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Islanders Matthew Schaefer will not be loaned to Team Canada for World Juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mathieu-darche\/8468463\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mathieu-darche\/8468463\" target=\"_blank\">Mathieu Darche<\/a> told reporters on Wednesday that rookie defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/matthew-schaefer\/8485366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/matthew-schaefer\/8485366\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Schaefer<\/a> will not be loaned to Team Canada for the upcoming World Juniors. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Darche said Schaefer will not be playing World Juniors.<\/p>\n<p>As for Olympics, not his call but said that Schaefer should be proud of himself that he\u2019s in the conversation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Isles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stefen Rosner (@stefen_rosner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stefen_rosner\/status\/1993722874214158820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schaefer is third in rookie scoring this season with seven goals and 15 points in 23 games this season and is a +8. He was named the NHL\u2019s Rookie of the Month in October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 18-year-old is also averaging 23:00 of ice time to lead all Islanders defencemen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schaefer was also informed on Nov. 20 that he was officially added to Team Canada\u2019s IOC long list for potential selection to the 2026 Winter Olympics team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, Schaefer skated for Team Canada at the World Juniors last year but broke his clavicle on Dec. 27 in the round-robin game against Latvia. The injury would keep him out for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He skated in just 17 games with the OHL\u2019s Erie Otters last season, scoring seven goals with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hamilton, Ont., native has represented Canada on several occasions, winning gold medals at the U17s, U18s and Hlinka Gretzky Cup. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Islanders general manager Mathieu Darche told reporters on Wednesday that rookie defenceman Matthew Schaefer will not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[4759,5,122,37074,3328,159,33187,5190,5189,4,44951],"class_list":{"0":"post-324203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-islanders","11":"tag-matthew-schaefer-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8485366","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-islanders","14":"tag-new-york-islanders-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-2","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkislanders","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-world-juniors-sports-hockey-world-juniors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115617124081179617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}