The Spengler Cup isn\u2019t viewed as a major tournament on the world stage, but it\u2019s among the most historic. First held in 1923, it\u2019s the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world and is hosted by Swiss National League club HC Davos, which is tied for the all-time lead with 16 tournament titles. It\u2019s run annually from Dec. 26 to 31, with a series of round-robin matchups and a brief playoff bracket.<\/p>\n
Team Canada is the other competing body with 16 championships. Each year, the governing body compiles what\u2019s always an interesting list of names, usually with plenty of representation among former NHLers, even if just in the form of forgotten call-up names.<\/p>\n
The squad is compiled of the top Canadian names in the National League who aren\u2019t on the Swiss teams in the tournament \u2013 a list of just two this year in Davos and reigning champion Fribourg-Gott\u00e9ron. More frequently in recent years, they\u2019ve gotten NHL teams to loan minor-league fixtures to them on two-way deals for the event, as well as nabbing some Canadian talent contracted at the AHL and ECHL levels, and other European leagues.<\/p>\n
Out of the 25 names on this year\u2019s roster for Canada, 16 of them have a degree of NHL experience. This year\u2019s tournament also includes a new face: a team compiled of some of the NCAA\u2019s top talents<\/a> who aren\u2019t otherwise occupied with this year\u2019s World Juniors.<\/p>\n This week, Hockey Canada revealed their contingent for the tournament. As follows, it\u2019s made up of 14 forwards, eight defenders, and three goalies.<\/p>\n F\u00a0Andy Andreoff<\/a> (ZSC Lions, NL) D\u00a0Calen Addison<\/a> (Utica, AHL)\u00a0under contract with Devils G\u00a0Taylor Gauthier<\/a> (Wheeling, ECHL)
F\u00a0Drake Caggiula<\/a> (Lausanne HC, NL)
F\u00a0Graeme Clarke<\/a> (Hershey, AHL)\u00a0under contract with Capitals
F\u00a0Jean-Luc Foudy<\/a> (Iowa, AHL)
F\u00a0Tanner Fritz<\/a> (SC Rapperswil-Jona, NL)
F\u00a0Derek Grant<\/a> (ZSC Lions, NL)
F\u00a0Jonathan Hazen<\/a> (HC Ajoie, NL)
F\u00a0Tyler Morley<\/a> (EHC Kloten, NL)
F\u00a0Matthew Peca<\/a> (Springfield, AHL)
F\u00a0Anthony Richard<\/a> (Lehigh Valley, AHL)\u00a0under contract with Flyers
F\u00a0Nate Schnarr<\/a> (K\u00f6lner Haie, DEL)
F\u00a0Brett Seney<\/a> (Rockford, AHL)
F\u00a0Michael Sgarbossa<\/a> (HC Lugano, NL)
F\u00a0Mason Shaw<\/a> (Manitoba, AHL)\u00a0under contract with Jets<\/p>\n
D\u00a0Nolan Allan<\/a> (Rockford, AHL) under contract with Blackhawks
D\u00a0Trent Bourque<\/a> (JYP, Liiga)
D\u00a0Nikolas Brouillard<\/a> (San Diego, AHL)
D\u00a0Gabriel Chicoine<\/a> (Vlci Zilina, Slovakia)
D\u00a0Jesse Graham<\/a> (HK Nitra, Slovakia)
D\u00a0Joe Hicketts<\/a> (Ontario, AHL)\u00a0under contract with Kings
D\u00a0Jake Livingstone<\/a> (Charlotte, AHL)<\/p>\n
G\u00a0Connor Hughes<\/a> (Lausanne HC, NL)
G\u00a0James Reimer<\/a> (UFA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spengler Cup isn\u2019t viewed as a major tournament on the world stage, but it\u2019s among the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,27600,3037],"class_list":{"0":"post-373579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-spengler-cup","10":"tag-team-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115777284616571392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373579","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=373579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}