World Junior no shows - updated

[JackSlater]

The following is a list of the players who have missed the WJC due to NHL (or other professional or senior) commitments. I found that Macman made essentially the same thread nearly 11 years ago (World junior no shows) but I was unable to update that thread. Like Macman, I'm going to focus on 1982 onward when Canada started sending legitimate teams. I've made some changes to Macman's original list (impressed that he made the list using Total Hockey) and updated it for the tournaments since 2005. If there are errors, let me know and I will be happy to edit accordingly.

Note: The list does not include players who missed the camps and tournaments due to injury.

1982

Canada: Dale Hawerchuk, Ron Francis, Brent Sutter, Grant Fuhr, Doug Smith, Joe Cirella, Jim Benning, Mark Hunter, Gilbert Delorme, Gaetan Duchesne, Paul Gagne, Normand Leveille, Mickey Volcan, Bob McGill, Jerome Dupont*, Andy Schliebener*, Dan Bourbonnais*

USA: Bobby Carpenter, Tom Fergus, Jim Pavese*, Rik Wilson* (Split the year between NHL and junior, not sure about this case)

1983

Canada: Dale Hawerchuk, Ron Francis, Scott Stevens, Gord Kluzak, Brian Bellows, Doug Smith, Jim Benning, Garth Butcher, Randy Moller, Dean Kennedy, Marc Habscheid, Luc Dufour, Tim Hrynewich*, Paul Lawless*, Ron Meighan*, Chris Kontos*, Tony Tanti*, Murray Craven* (Split the year between NHL and junior, not sure about this case)

USA: Bobby Carpenter, Phil Housley

Finland: Hannu Virta

1984

Canada: Steve Yzerman, Scott Stevens, Cam Neely, Gord Kluzak, Brian Bellows, Ken Yaremchuk, Michel Petit, Sylvain Turgeon, Andrew McBain, Normand Lacombe, Dan Quinn, Bob Errey, Nevin Markwart, Lane Lambert, Pat Verbeek, Richard Kromm, Jim Kyte, Murray Craven* (Split the year between NHL and juniors, not sure about this case)

USA: Phil Housley, Tom Barrasso, Brian Lawton, Pat Lafontaine*(Split his year between the Olympic team and the NHL)

1985

Canada: Mario Lemieux, Steve Yzerman, Cam Neely, Sylvain Turgeon, Russ Courtnall, Andrew McBain, Dan Quinn, Gerald Diduck, Todd Charlesworth, Peter Zezel, Marc Bergevin, Derrick Smith, Kirk Muller, Craig Redmond, Doug Bodger, J.J. Daigneault, Sylvain Cote, Roger Belanger, Bruce Bell

USA: Ed Olcyk, Al Iafrate, Kevin Hatcher, Pat Lafontaine, Brian Lawton, Tom Barrasso

Czechoslovakia: Petr Svoboda

1986

Canada: Kirk Muller, Doug Bodger, Stephane Richer, Wendel Clark, Craig Simpson, Dana Murzyn, Dave Pasin

USA: Kevin Hatcher, Craig Wolanin, Al Iafrate

Czechoslovakia: Petr Svoboda

1987

Canada: Craig Simpson, Jeff Greenlaw, Dave Manson, Joe Murphy, Shawn Anderson, Vincent Damphousse, Jocelyn Lemieux, Herb Raglan, Ken Priestlay*, Zarley Zalapski* (Spent time with senior national team)

USA: Craig Wolanin, Jimmy Carson

1988

Canada: Brendan Shanahan, Pierre Turgeon, Glen Wesley, Luke Richardson, Dave Archibald, Shawn Anderson, Everett Sanipass, Jeff Greenlaw, Zarley Zalapski* (Split time between Olympic team and NHL team)

USA: Jimmy Carson, Brian Leetch (Split his year between senior national team and NHL team)

1989

Canada: Brendan Shanahan, Pierre Turgeon, Joe Sakic, Luke Richardson, Jimmy Waite, Dave Archibald, Chris Joseph, Wayne McBean, Jayson More* (IHL), Jody Hull, Trevor Linden, Curtis Leschyshyn

1990

Canada: Trevor Linden, Rod Brind'Amour, Troy Mallette, Martin Gelinas, Rob Cimetta

USA: Mike Modano, Jeremy Roenick

1991

Canada: Dave Chyzowski, Owen Nolan, Keith Primeau, Mike Ricci

Czechoslovakia: Bobby Holik, Robert Reichel, Petr Nedved, Jaromir Jagr

Sweden: Mats Sundin

1992

Canada: Owen Nolan, Geoff Sanderson, Pat Falloon, Ray Whitney* (Spent the year in the IHL)

USA: Darian Hatcher

Czechoslovakia: Jaromir Jagr

1993

Canada: Eric Lindros, Scott Niedermayer, Richard Matvichuk, Patrick Poulin, Philippe Boucher* (injured when he could have been at WJC camp)

Russia: Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Krivokrasov* (IHL)

Czech and Slovak Republics: Roman Hamrlik, Robert Petrovicky

1994

Canada: Paul Kariya* (Olympic team), Mike Rathje, Chris Pronger, Alexandre Daigle, Chris Gratton, Jason Arnott, Rob Niedermayer, Jocelyn Thibeault, Todd Warriner* (Split his year between the Olympic team and his AHL team)

Russia: Sergei Krivokrasov*, Andrei Nazarov* (IHL)

Czech Republic: Vlastimil Kroupa* (Split his year between NHL and IHL) Radek Bonk*(IHL)

Slovakia: Pavol Demitra* (Split his year between NHL and AHL)

1995

Canada: Chris Gratton*, Brendan Witt* (Both did not report, rumours that their NHL teams wanted them training for the end of the lockout rather than playing junior hockey)

Czech Republic: Radek Bonk (Split his year between NHL and IHL), Stanislav Neckar* (Not sure about his situation

Russia: Viktor Kozlov*, Oleg Tverdovsky*, Yan Golubovsky (Not sure about their situations)

1996

Canada: Shane Doan, Chad Kilger, Kyle McLaren, Ed Jovanovski, Jeff O'Neil, Ryan Smyth, Jeff Friesen, Jason Wiemer, Mathieu Dandenault,

Russia: Oleg Tverdosky, Yan Golubovsky,

Czech Republic: Radek Bonk, Stan Neckar, Josef Marha*(AHL), Radek Dvorak, Petr Sykora, Roman Vopat,

USA: Jason Bonsignore, Deron Quint, Richard Park

Finland: Aki Berg

1997

Canada: Wade Redden, Kyle McLaren, Jarome Iginla, Jay McKee

USA: Bryan Berard

Czech Republic: Radek Dvorak,

Slovakia: Robert Dome*(IHL)

Russia: Dainius Zubrus* (Eligible to play for Russia or any other country belonging to USSR, though not certain that he would have chosen Russia)

1998

Canada: Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Chris Phillips, Boyd Devereaux, Derek Morris

Russia: Andrei Zyuzin, Sergei Samsonov, Dainius Zubrus* (Eligible to play for Russia or any other country belonging to USSR, though not certain that he would have chosen Russia)

Czech Republic: Jan Bulis

Slovakia: Robert Dome*(Split his year between NHL and AHL)

Germany: Marco Sturm

1999

Canada: Vincent Lecavalier, Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Manny Malhotra, Eric Brewer

Slovakia: Marian Hossa, Robert Dome*(Split his year between IHL and AHL)

2000

Canada: Vincent Lecavalier, Rico Fata*(AHL), Robyn Regehr, Mike Fisher, Simon Gagne, Jonathan Girard

Russia: Dimitri Kalinin, Vitaly Vishnevski*(Split his year between NHL and AHL)

USA: David Legwand, Tim Connolly, David Tanabe* (Split his year between NHL and IHL)

Czech Republic: Patrik Stefan, Jiri Fischer

Kazakhstan: Nik Antropov

2001

Canada: Scott Hartnell, Justin Williams, Taylor Pyatt

USA: Tim Connolly

Slovakia: Marian Gaborik, Kristian Kudroc*(Split his year between NHL and IHL)

Russia: Oleg Saprykin

Czech Republic: Martin Havlat

2002

Canada: Scott Hartnell, Dan Blackburn

Slovakia: Marian Gaborik

Czech Republic: Rostislav Klesla, Vaclav Nederost

Russia: Ilya Kovalchuk

2003

Canada: Jason Spezza, Rick Nash, Jay Bouwmeester, Stephen Weiss, Dan Blackburn

Russia: Ilya Kovalchuk, Stanislav Chistov

Czech Republic: Ales Hemsky

2004

Canada: Rick Nash, Eric Staal, Nathan Horton, Patrice Bergeron, Pierre-Marc Bouchard

Czech Republic: Milan Michalek

Russia: Nikolai Zherdev, Anton Babchuk

USA: Dustin Brown

2005

Canada: Brent Burns, Nathan Horton* (Florida would not release him for the camp, and he subsequently got injured during an AHL game while the Canadian camp was ongoing)

2006

Canada: Sidney Crosby

2007

Canada: Sidney Crosby, Gilbert Brule, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Guillaume Latendresse, Jordan Staal

USA: Phil Kessel

Slovenia: Anze Kopitar* (Slovenia was in Division 1)

2008

Canada: Jonathan Toews, Sam Gagner, David Perron, Jordan Staal, James Sheppard, Milan Lucic

USA: Erik Johnson, Peter Mueller, Patrick Kane

Czech Republic: Jiri Tlusty

2009

Canada: Drew Doughty, Steven Stamkos, Luke Schenn, Josh Bailey, Sam Gagner, Kyle Turris, Colton Gillies, Brandon Sutter

Czech Republic: Jakub Voracek

USA: Zach Bogosian

Denmark: Mikkel Boedker

Switzerland: Luca Sbisa

2010

Canada: Steven Stamkos, Tyler Myers, James Wright, John Tavares, Matt Duchene, Evander Kane, Ryan O'Reilly, Michael Del Zotto

USA: Zach Bogosian

Sweden: Victor Hedman, Erik Karlsson

Russia: Dmitri Kulikov, Slava Voynov

2011

Canada: Matt Duchene, Evander Kane, Ryan O'Reilly, Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Kyle Clifford

Sweden: Magnus Paajarvi, Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Russia: Alexander Burmistrov

2012

Canada: Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Ryan Johansen, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Sean Couturier, Erik Gudbranson

Switzerland: Nino Niederreiter

USA: Justin Faulk

Sweden: Gabriel Landeskog, Adam Larsson

2013

Latvia: Zemgus Girgensons

Sweden: Mika Zibanejad

2014

Canada: Nathan MacKinnon, Morgan Rielly, Sean Monahan, Tom Wilson

USA: Alex Galchenyuk, Jacob Trouba

Sweden: Hampus Lindholm

Finland: Olli Maatta, Aleksander Barkov

Russia: Valeri Nichushkin

2015

Canada: Nathan MacKinnon, Jonathan Drouin, Bo Horvat, Aaron Ekblad

Finland: Aleksander Barkov

Russia: Nikita Zadorov

Sweden: Andrei Burakovsky

Germany: Leon Draisaitl

2016

Canada: Aaron Ekblad, Sam Bennett, Robby Fabbri, Jared McCann

USA: Jack Eichel, Dylan Larkin, Noah Hanifin

Denmark: Nikolaj Ehlers

Switzerland: Kevin Fiala

2017

Canada: Connor McDavid, Mitch Marner, Travis Konecny, Anthony Beauvillier, Lawson Crouse, Jakob Chychrun

USA: Noah Hanifin, Zach Werenski, Christian Fischer, Auston Matthews, Matthew Tkachuk

Russia: Ivan Provorov

Finland: Sebastian Aho, Patrik Laine, Jesse Puljujarvi

Czech Republic: Pavel Zacha

Switzerland: Denis Malgin

2018

Canada: Jakob Chychrun, Samuel Girard, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Tyson Jost, Nolan Patrick

USA: Clayton Keller

Russia: Mikhail Sergachev

Finland: Patrik Laine, Jesse Puljujarvi

Sweden: Jesper Bratt

Switzerland: Nico Hischier

2019

Canada: Robert Thomas, Michael Rasmussen

USA: Brady Tkachuk

Russia: Andrei Svechnikov

Finland: Miro Heiskanen, Jesperi Kotkaniemi

Czech Republic: Filip Chytil

Sweden: Rasmus Dahlin

Switzerland: Nico Hischier

2020

Canada: Noah Dobson, Kirby Dach

USA: Joel Farabee, Jack Hughes

Russia: Andrei Svechnikov

Finland: Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Kaapo Kakko

Sweden: Rasmus Dahlin, Adam Boqvist

2021

Canada: Alexis Lafreniere, Owen Power* (Unique situation where his amateur coach would not release him)

USA: Jack Hughes, Nicholas Robertson

Finland: Kaapo Kakko

Germany: Moritz Seider* (debateable situation as to whether he was interested in playing or not)

2022

Canada: Jamie Drysdale, Quinton Byfield, Seth Jarvis, Cole Sillinger

Sweden: Lucas Raymond

Germany: Tim Stutzle, Lukas Reichel*, John-Jason Peterka* (Reichel and Peterka stayed with their AHL teams as it was deemed that that was better for their development. Debatable case.)

2022 Redux

Note: Due to the unique nature of this edition of the tournament, I'm going to include any player who opted out after having participated in the December tournament, provided that player seems reasonably healthy.

Canada: Jamie Drysdale, Quinton Byfield, Seth Jarvis, Cole Sillinger, Owen Power, Kaiden Guhle, Cole Perfetti, Jake Neighbours, Justin Sourdif, Xavier Bourgault, Mavrik Bourque, Dylan Guenther, Shane Wright

Sweden: Lucas Raymond, William Eklund, Alexander Holtz, Joel Nystrom

Germany: Tim Stutzle, Lukas Reichel, John-Jason Peterka, Florian Elias, Noah Dunham, Jussi Peterson, Justas Bottner, Yannick Burghart, Jakub Borzecki, Fabrizo Pilu, Julian Lutz

USA: Matty Beniers, Drew Commesso

Slovakia: Simon Nemec, Juraj Slafkovsky, Filip Mesar, Martin Chromiak, Adam Zlnka, Samuel Knazko, Marko Stacha, Jakub Kolenic, Samuel Krajc, Jan Lasak, Rastislav Elias

Czechia: Jakub Malek, Michael Krutil, David Moravec

Austria: Marco Kasper

Latvia: Raivis Ansons

Switzerland: Lian Bischel, Noah Meier, Lorenza Canonica, Valentin Hofer?, Christophe Cavelleri?

2023

Canada: Cole Sillinger, Mason McTavish, Wyatt Johnston

Slovakia: Juraj Slafkovsky

2024

Canada: Shane Wright, Kevin Korchinski, Adam Fantilli, Connor Bedard, Zach Benson

USA: Logan Cooley

Sweden: Leo Carlsson

Finland - Joakim Kemell

Slovakia - Juraj Slafkovsky, Simon Nemec

2025

Canada: Connor Bedard, Zach Benson, Macklin Celebrini

USA: Will Smith

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[tade]

Come on now! It's still possible for Pastrnak! And he was playing last year for Czech...

But very good list, thanks.

Connor McDavid?

 

[JackSlater]

Come on now! It's still possible for Pastrnak! And he was playing last year for Czech...

But very good list, thanks.

Connor McDavid?

I assumed Pastrnak was out, as TSN kept mentioning the roster freeze on the 19th. If he's added then I will remove him. McDavid is injured, so he couldn't play even if Edmonton released him.

 

[john03]

Pastrnak played in the 2015 tournament too

 

[Snippit]

Canada's 2010-2012 NHL players...wow. Could have been 8 straight

I kid, I kid.

 

[JackSlater]

Pastrnak played in the 2015 tournament too

Right, missed that even though it was so recent.

 

[HankNDank]

I assumed Pastrnak was out, as TSN kept mentioning the roster freeze on the 19th. If he's added then I will remove him. McDavid is injured, so he couldn't play even if Edmonton released him.

Yeah, but he was injured playing in the NHL. Personally, even if you don't add him to the list, he is on my list.

 

[1Gold Standard]

Valeri Nichushkin was also missing from 2015 tournament. injured. whether he would have been released for the tournament is another question.

 

[1Gold Standard]

Canada's 2010-2012 NHL players...wow. Could have been 8 straight

I kid, I kid.

It could have been easily 8 in a row...but would this tournament have gained any traction in some parts of Europe (Sweden and Finland) if that scenario had played out?

is it really growing in popularity in some parts of Europe? I have my doubts.

 

[JackSlater]

Yeah, but he was injured playing in the NHL. Personally, even if you don't add him to the list, he is on my list.

If you want. The list is reflective of who was missing because the NHL didn't release players. Even if the NHL had to release all WJC eligible players, McDavid wouldn't be going.

Valeri Nichushkin was also missing from 2015 tournament. injured. whether he would have been released for the tournament is another question.

I intentionally left Nichushkin out. I excluded players who were hurt, unless their injury occurred when they could have been at the WJCs (or camps). There are other players (Gary Nylund in 1983, Normand Leveille in 1983, Gilbert Brule in 2006) that were injured in the NHL but were not included because their injuries happened before WJC camps.

 

[1Gold Standard]

I intentionally left Nichushkin out. I excluded players who were hurt, unless their injury occurred when they could have been at the WJCs (or camps). There are other players (Gary Nylund in 1983, Normand Leveille in 1983, Gilbert Brule in 2006) that were injured in the NHL but were not included because their injuries happened before WJC camps.

gotcha.

 

[HankNDank]

If you want. The list is reflective of who was missing because the NHL didn't release players. Even if the NHL had to release all WJC eligible players, McDavid wouldn't be going.

There is no alternate parallel universe where McDavid doesn't get injured that has him in the WJC this year, but I see what you mean how this list is narrowed to "NHL teams did not release the player for WJC" and not "Good enough to be in the NHL so they didn't go to the WJC". Slight distinction.

 

[tade]

It could have been easily 8 in a row...but would this tournament have gained any traction in some parts of Europe (Sweden and Finland) if that scenario had played out?

is it really growing in popularity in some parts of Europe? I have my doubts.

Yes, definitely, I would say. For example, in Czech republic, WJC will get a lot of coverage (on our major tv station regarding sport) and not only Czech games but also games like USA-CAN, or SWE-USA will be broadcasted. And since the tournament is in Finland, it will be in prime times here. And not for the first time.

Obviously, it is nowhere close to the senior WHC. But it's definitely getting better and better in terms of popularity.

 

[The Dayvan Cowboy]

It is crazy remembering that Sidney Crosby was eligible to play in the World Juniors the same year he won the Art Ross.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

1993 would have been unreal with Lindros and Niedermayer. Unreal depth that year.

 

[xxxx]

yep. and so would be the 2010 year. We lost 5-6 to the US, while their only missing player was Bogosian? Canada was missing Tavares, Stamkos (who scored 51 goals in that season), Duchene, E.Kane, O'Reilly, AND two great d-men in Myers and Del Zotto who I both remember had great rookie seasons. Del Zotto over 30pts, Myers 48 and even won the Calder.

 

[Canuckistani]

2010

Canada: Steven Stamkos, Tyler Myers, John Tavares, Matt Duchene, Evander Kane, Ryan O'Reilly, Michael Del Zotto

2011

Canada: Matt Duchene, Evander Kane, Ryan O'Reilly, Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Kyle Clifford

2012

Canada: Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Ryan Johansen, Ryan Nugent - Hopkins, Sean Couturier, Erik Gudbranson

That could easily have been eight in a row. Amazing talent.

But who knows - 2013 was a flop with all available talent in attendance.

 

[LastWordArmy]

2016 should include McDavid.

 

[JackSlater]

2016 should include McDavid.

Not unless he returns to action very soon.

 

[nutbar]

Why did Mathieu Schneider miss the 1989 tournament?

 

[nutbar]

Leetch was on the US Olympic team for most of 1987-88.

 

[JackSlater]

Why did Mathieu Schneider miss the 1989 tournament?

Good question, I can't find the answer. Especially surprising since he was on the team the previous year.

Leetch was on the US Olympic team for most of 1987-88.

Thanks, I missed that Leetch played for that team.

 

[nutbar]

Thanks, I missed that Leetch played for that team.

Also Leetch was still in high school in 1984. He wasn't even drafted until 1986.

 

[Yakushev72]

What this all tells me is that in the 1980's and early 1990's, before the large-scale infusion of better European competition, there were a lot of 18-year olds, many less than star players, who were playing in the NHL. Once the Europeans started arriving, the number of junior-aged players was drastically reduced.

 

[Theokritos]

Nice thread. I have only discovered it now, but I will link it in the Historical Resources and Source Material sticky on HOH.