{"id":20562,"date":"2015-04-09T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-barzal-bear-join-canadas-under-18-team\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T02:00:36","slug":"t-birds-barzal-bear-join-canadas-under-18-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/t-birds-barzal-bear-join-canadas-under-18-team\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds&#8217; Barzal, Bear join Canada&#8217;s under-18 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Seattle Thunderbirds center Mathew Barzal and defenseman Ethan Bear will play for Team Canada at the Under-18 World Championship on April 16-26 in Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Barzal, a 17-year-old from Coquitlam, British Columbia, finished his second season with the T-Birds and had 57 points on 12 goals and 45 assists. He had four goals and four assists in six playoff games. In two seasons with the T-Birds, Barzal had 111 points on 26 goals and 85 assists in 103 games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Barzal is ranked No. 11 in the NHL Central Scouting Final Rankings for 2015 draft-eligible players.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Bear, a 17-year-old from Ochapowace, Saskatchewan, finished his second season with the T-Birds and had 38 points on 13 goals and 25 assists. He had a goal and two assists in six playoff games. In two seasons with the T-Birds, Bear has 57 points on 19 goals and 38 assists in 128 games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Bear is ranked No. 97 in the NHL Central Scouting Final Rankings for 2015 draft-eligible players.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Barzal and Bear were part of Team Canada&#8217;s Under-18 Team that won gold at the 2014 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup on Aug. 11-16 in Breclav, Czech Republic and Piestany, Slovakia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Barzal was part of Team Canada&#8217;s U-18 National Team that won bronze at the 2014 IIHF World Championship in Finland in April. He had three goals and one assist for four points in seven games.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Thunderbirds center Mathew Barzal and defenseman Ethan Bear will play for Team Canada at the Under-18 World Championship on April 16-26 in Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":20563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20562"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}