Cochrane hockey player Riley Boychuk will be lacing up for Team Canada White in the U17 World Challenge.
Two Canadian teams will be competing against those from the US, Finland, Sweden, and Czechia at the international tournament that gets underway in Sarnia, ON on Nov. 3 at 1:30 p.m. MST.
Teams will play two preliminary-round games before the medal round on Nov. 9. The event will also feature pre-tournament games in Sarnia, Petrolia, and Forest on Nov. 1.
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Boychuk, 16, was selected second overall in the 2023 WHL Prospects Draft and signed a standard WHL player agreement with the Prince Albert Raiders shortly afterward.
He has two assists in his first six games with the Raiders this season and spent last season in the CSSHL with the Northern Alberta Xtreme U18 prep team.
All 44 players selected to wear the maple leaf have been drafted by Canadian Hockey League (CHL) teams. Boychuk is joined in Team White by teammate Daxon Rudolph.
More than 2,000 NHL draft picks have suited up since the inception of the U17 World Challenge (previously known as the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and Quebec Esso Cup) in 1986. They include 17 first-overall draft picks since 2001 (Ilya Kovalchuk, 2001; Rick Nash, 2002; Marc-André Fleury, 2003; Alexander Ovechkin, 2004; Erik Johnson, 2006; Patrick Kane, 2007; John Tavares, 2009; Taylor Hall, 2010, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 2011; Nathan MacKinnon, 2013; Aaron Ekblad, 2014; Connor McDavid, 2015; Auston Matthews, 2016; Jack Hughes, 2019; Alexis Lafrenière, 2020; Owen Power, 2021; Macklin Celebrini, 2024).
TSN and RDS, the official broadcast partners of Hockey Canada, will broadcast the bronze and gold medal games; check local listings for details.