Seven months after Canada’s world junior team won a gold medal on home ice, the process of trying to do it again in Helsinki is just getting underway.
When Hockey Canada’s national junior team summer development camp starts Saturday in Calgary, coach Dave Lowry and his staff begin the long process of putting together the 2016 group. Only five players at the camp won gold in Toronto, so there’s a lot of turnover and plenty of work to be done.
“It’s an introduction to these players,” Lowry said in a phone interview Friday. “For us, it’s an evaluation process.