The 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship will take place in Ufa, Russia, with the opening games beginning on Dec. 26. The gold medal game will take place on Saturday, January 5, 2013.
Sweden will enter the tournament as defending champions, coming off a 1-0 victory in overtime against the Russian team earlier this year. The gold medal victory for Team Sweden was their first title in 31 years. The Canadian team earned bronze with a 4-0 victory over Finland.
Rosters for several of the teams participating in the tournament can be found below:
Team Sweden:
Forwards: Viktor Arvidsson, Jeremy Boyce, Sebastian Collberg, Jacob de la Rose, Filip Forsberg, Linus Fröberg, Max Görtz, William Karlsson, Elias Lindholm, Emil Molin, Rickard Rakell, Victor Rask, Nick Sörensen, Alexander Wennberg
Defencemen: Linus Arnesson, Rasmus Bengtsson, Christian Djoos, Emil Djuse, Hampus Lindholm, Tom Nilsson, Jesper Pettersson, Mikael Vikstrand
Goalkeepers: Oscar Dansk, Joel Lassinantti, Niklas Lundström
Team Russia:
Forwards: Mikhail Grigorenko, Kirill Kapustin, Alexander Khokhlachyov, Yaroslav Kosov, Nikita Kucherov, Yevgeni Mozer, Valeri Nichushkin, Danil Romantsev, Maxim Shalunov, Anton Shenfeld, Andrei Sigaryov, Anton Slepyshev, Vladimir Tkachyov, Bogdan Yakimov, Nail Yakupov, Danil Zharkov, Anton Zlobin
Defencemen: Kirill Dyakov, Yaroslav Dyblenko, Pavel Koledov, Andrei Mironov, Mikhail Naumenkov, Nikita Nesterov, Artyom Sergeyev, Nikita Tryamkin, Alexei Vasilevski, Albert Yarullin, Nikita Zadorov
Goalkeepers: Andrei Makarov, Igor Ustinski, Andrei Vasilevski
Team Canada:
Forwards: Anthony Camara, Phillip Danault, Jonathan Drouin, Jonathan Huberdeau, Charles Hudon, Boone Jenner, J.C. Lipon, Nathan MacKinnon, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Ty Rattie, Brett Ritchie, Mark Scheifele, Ryan Strome
Defencemen: Dougie Hamilton, Scott Harrington, Ryan Murphy, Xavier Ouellet, Griffin Reinhart, Morgan Rielly, Tyler Wotherspoon
Goalkeepers: Jordan Binnington, Jake Paterson, Malcolm Subban
Team Finland:
Forwards: Miro Aaltonen, Joel Armia, Aleksander Barkov, Markus Granlund, Henrik Haapala, Markus Hännikäinen, Henri Ikonen, Juuso Ikonen, Ville Järveläinen, Matti Lamberg, Artturi Lehkonen, Robert Leino, Thomas Nykopp, Saku Salminen, Miikka Salomäki, Teuvo Teräväinen
Defencemen: Henri Auvinen, Petteri Lindbohm, Esa Lindell, Olli Määttä, Ville Pokka, Juuso Riikola, Rasmus Ristolainen, Juuso Vainio, Mikko Vainonen, Joonas Valkonen
Goalkeepers: Janne Juvonen, Joonas Korpisalo, Eetu Laurikainen
Team USA:
Forwards: Riley Barber, Cole Bardreau, Tyler Biggs, Alex Galchenyuk, John Gaudreau, Rocco Grimaldi, Ryan Hartman, Sean Kuraly, Mario Lucia, Stefan Matteau, J.T. Miller, Blake Pietila, Vince Trocheck, Jim Vesey
Defencemen: Shayne Gostisbehere, Matt Grzelcyk, Seth Jones, Jake McCabe, Connor Murphy, Mike Reilly, Patrick Sieloff, Brady Skjei, Jacob Trouba
Goalkeepers: John Gibson, Jon Gillies, Garret Sparks
Team Czech Republic:
Forwards: Matej Beran, Petr Beranek, Radek Faksa, Martin Frk, Tomas Hertl, Tomas Hyka, Dmitrij Jaskin, Petr Koblasa, Erik Nemec, Tomas Rousek, Lukas Sedlak, Dominik Simon, Michal Svihalek, Vojtech Tomecek, Jakub Vrana
Defencemen: Milan Doudera, Marek Hrbas, Tomas Kvapil, David Musil, Tomas Pavelka, Jan Stencel, Vojtech Zadrazil, Petr Sidlik, Patrik Urbanec
Goalkeepers: Patrik Bartosak, Jan Lukas, Matej Machovsky
