Belarus teammates Falkovsky, Buinitsky, and Goncharov use World Junior experience as

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Photo: Team Belarus defenseman and 2016 prospect Stepan Falkovsky is in his first season of OHL hockey as a member of the Ottawa 67’s (courtesy of Chapin Landvogt/HF)


</p>Coming into the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship, Stepan Falkovsky was about the only Belarusian player known to the international ice hockey community as he currently suits up for the Ottawa 67’s of the OHL. There, the 19 year old sports seven goals,*22 points, and a +11 rating in 37 games in his first season of North American play. Despite a 6’7†and 225-pound frame that he doesn’t shy away from using, Falkovsky plays a rangy game and seems very adept at making solid first passes or firing the puck from the point

One almost needed to make a double-take when seeing Falkovsky’s WJC defense partner Vladislav Goncharov, the team’s captain, on the ice.… read more

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