{"id":71726,"date":"2024-12-23T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kent-based-thunderbirds-sawyer-mynio-makes-canada-national-junior-team\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:25:00","slug":"kent-based-thunderbirds-sawyer-mynio-makes-canada-national-junior-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kent-based-thunderbirds-sawyer-mynio-makes-canada-national-junior-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent-based Thunderbirds&#8217; Sawyer Mynio makes Canada National Junior Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent-based Seattle Thunderbirds defenseman Sawyer Mynio is one of 24 Canadian Hockey League (CHL) players on the Canada National Junior Team.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will compete in the 2025 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championships Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Ottawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Mynio, 19, a third-round NHL Draft pick in 2023 by the Vancouver Canucks, won the Western Hockey League (WHL) title with the T-Birds in 2023. He is from Kamloops, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries in the 10-team tournament include Sweden, Slovakia, Germany, United States, Switzerland, Czechia, Latvia, Kazakhstan and Finland. Canada opens play against Finland on Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Mynio has five goals and 14 assists for 19 points in 18 games this season for the T-Birds. The T-Birds entered this week in 11th place out of 11 teams in the Western Conference of the WHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team competes Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in World Junior Championships <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":71727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-71726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71726"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}