It's official, Shane Wright joins Team Canada's World Junior roster

It's the mooooost wonderful tiiiiiiiiime of the year!

It's World Juniors time baby and there's no one more hyped out there than myself. Personally, this tournament represents some of the best hockey of the year, with the world's best under 20 year olds coming together for a our entertainment.

In case you missed it last week, Team Canada released their preliminary roster and it features a bevy of high powered offensive players and looks poised for a gold medal repeat this holiday season.

Obviously Connor Bedard is the standout player on this roster and all eyes will be on him for the duration of the tournament. The kid is just 18 years old and the World Junior Championships is traditionally a tournament dominated by 19 year olds, but Bedard will be Canada's top player even if he'll be one of the team's younger players. But, this has been the case for Bedard his entire life and will be nothing new for him. Something tells me that he'll be up for the challenge.

Beyond him there's offensive minded forwards like Adam Fantili, Logan Stankoven and Brennan Othman. There should be no shortage of players who can put the puck in the net on this version of Team Canada. I'd imagine that Bedard, Stankoven and Fantilli will all play center with Owen Beck, Zach Dean, Nathhan Gaucher and Riley Kidney will all compete for the 4th center ice position. On defense team Canada will likely count on the likes of Olen Zellweger, Ethan Del Mastro and Carson Lambos to do the heavy lifting and are obviously holding out hope for Los Angeles Kings bluelier Brandt Clarke.

And today, the team got a huge addition with the NHL's Seattle Kraken 4th overall selection Shane Wright officially joining the roster.

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Depending on what happens with Clarke, Wright may be the only NHL player released to Team Canada for the upcoming tournament.

Any way you shake things down though, Wright is a huge piece for Canada in their quest to repeat as gold medalists in Halifax and Moncton next month.