{"id":635,"date":"2014-06-25T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-barzal-bear-named-to-hockey-canada-u-18-selection-camp\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:05:39","slug":"t-birds-barzal-bear-named-to-hockey-canada-u-18-selection-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/t-birds-barzal-bear-named-to-hockey-canada-u-18-selection-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds&#8217; Barzal, Bear named to Hockey Canada U-18 Selection Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Seattle Thunderbirds center Mathew Barzal and defenseman Ethan Bear have been invited to attend Canada&#8217;s Summer Under-18 Team selection camp Aug. 2-5 at the Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The under-18 team will play in the Memorial of Ivan Hlinka tournament in Piestany, Slovakia, and Breclav, Czech Republic, Aug. 11-16. Barzal and Bear are two of 44 players Hockey Canada has invited to the selection camp.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In his rookie season last year, Barzal appeared in 59 games and had 14 goals and 40 assists for 54 points. Barzal was selected by the T-Birds in the first round, first overall, in the 2012 Bantam Draft. Barzal is eligible for the 2015 NHL Draft.<\/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 Ice Hockey World Championship in Finland, in April. He had three goals and one assist for four points in seven games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In his rookie season with the T-Birds, Bear played in 58 games and registered six goals and 13 assists, for 19 points. Bear was selected by the T-Birds in the second round, 25th overall, in the 2012 Bantam Draft. Bear is eligible for the 2015 NHL Draft.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Thunderbirds center Mathew Barzal and defenseman Ethan Bear have been invited to attend Canada&#8217;s Summer Under-18 Team selection camp Aug. 2-5 at the Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}