It’s that great time of the hockey calendar — where we get to watch all the prospects that NHL teams have drafted represent their countries in a very short tournament and try to form our own opinion about the players. It’s the 2023 World Junior Championships and this year it is in Halifax and Moncton.
The Minnesota Wild have five prospects this year, a steep cut from the nine that they had at last year’s event, and some are having stellar starts to the whole thing. Let’s take a look at how the first two days have gone for the handful of young dudes.