While forwards and defencemen will have to battle for spots on Team Canada's 2016 World Juniors team, the goaltenders were set from the beginning. Calgary Flames prospect Mason McDonald and New Jersey Devils prospect Mackenize Blackwood were the only two goalies slated to come along.
But while McDonald has been behaving himself, Blackwood has not - and it's going to cost him two World Juniors games.
In a game against the Sudbury Wolves on Friday, Dec. 4, Blackwood delivered a very obvious, rather vicious-looking slash to an opposing player:
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