{"id":375361,"date":"2025-12-27T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/375361\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:45:08","slug":"2026-nhl-draft-eligible-players-at-world-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/375361\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Draft Eligible Players At World Juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Junior Championships kicked off early on Friday. The tournament brings together the top U20 players from 10 countries around the world. Rosters typically contain a mix of NHL players, NHL prospects, undrafted players looking for a second chance, and future draftees hoping for a good first impression. Pro Hockey Rumors has compiled a list of all 75 players eligible for the 2026 NHL Draft competing in this year\u2019s World Junior Championship tournament:<\/p>\n

Team Canada<\/p>\n

D Carson Carels<\/a>
F Gavin McKenna<\/a>
D Keaton Verhoeff <\/a><\/p>\n

Team Czechia<\/p>\n

D Vladim\u00edr Draveck\u00fd<\/a>
F Adam Novotny<\/a>
D Jakub Vanecek<\/a><\/p>\n

Team Denmark<\/p>\n

F Lasse B\u00e6rentsen<\/a>
D Jesper Bank Olesen<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Jeppe Bertram<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Elias Borup Olsen<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F William Bundgaard<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Lucas Cilan Hjorth Jensen<\/a>
D Viggo Damgaard<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Oliver Dejbjerg Larsen<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Oliver Green<\/a>
F Albert Grossmann<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Emil Saaby Jakobsen<\/a>
D Markus Jakobsen<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Frederik Rundh<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Martinus Uggerh\u00f8j Schioldan <\/a><\/p>\n

Team Finland<\/p>\n

F Onni Kalto<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Jasper Kuhta<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Juho Piiparinen<\/a>
F Oliver Suvanto<\/a>
D Arttu V\u00e4lil\u00e4<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Matias Vanhanen<\/a> (re-entry candidate)<\/p>\n

Team Germany<\/p>\n

D Max Bleicher<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Lenny Boos<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Gustavs Griva<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Fabio Kose<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Timo Kose<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Elias Schneider<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Finn Serikow<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Mateu Sp\u00e4th<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Dustin Willh\u00f6ft<\/a> (re-entry candidate)<\/p>\n

Team Latvia<\/p>\n

F Rudolfs Berzkalns<\/a>
F Dmitrijs Dilevka<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Karlis Flugins<\/a>
F Roberts Janis Polis<\/a>
F Martins Klaucans<\/a>
F Olivers Murnieks<\/a>
D Rolands Naglis<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Bruno Osmanis<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Krisjanis Sarts<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Daniels Serkins<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Alberts Smits<\/a>
F Kristians Utnans<\/a> (re-entry candidate)<\/p>\n

Team Sweden<\/p>\n

F Viggo Bj\u00f6rck<\/a>
D William H\u00e5kansson<\/a>
F Casper Juustovaara Karlsson<\/a>
F Ivar Stenberg<\/a><\/p>\n

Team Slovakia<\/p>\n

D Michal Capos<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Tomas Chrenko<\/a>
F Jakub Dubravik<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Adam Goljer<\/a>
D Adam Kalman<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Matus Lisy<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Alex Misiak<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Samuel Murin<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Adam Nemec<\/a>
F Tomas Pobezal<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Luka Radivojevic<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Andreas Straka<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Tobias Tomik<\/a>
F Lukas Tomka<\/a> (re-entry candidate)<\/p>\n

Team Switzerland<\/p>\n

F Mike Aeschlimann<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Lenny Giger<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Cyrill Henry<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Kimi K\u00f6rbler<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
D Nik Lehmann<\/a>
F Paul Mottard<\/a> (re-entry candidate)
F Lars Steiner<\/a>
D Guus Van der Kaaij<\/a> (re-entry candidate)<\/p>\n

Team United States<\/p>\n

D Chase Reid<\/a>
D Dakoda Rh\u00e9aume-Mullen<\/a> (re-entry candidate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Junior Championships kicked off early on Friday. The tournament brings together the top U20 players from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[7704,766,5,629,2529,4,465,466,403,178,3037,2182,15233,9846,180,9028,3255],"class_list":{"0":"post-375361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-2026-nhl-draft","9":"tag-gavin-mckenna","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-ivar-stenberg","12":"tag-keaton-verhoeff","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-draft","15":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","16":"tag-players","17":"tag-prospects","18":"tag-team-canada","19":"tag-team-czechia","20":"tag-team-finland","21":"tag-team-germany","22":"tag-team-sweden","23":"tag-team-switzerland","24":"tag-team-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115788770541582716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375361","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=375361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}