Flohockey's Chris Peters projects Ducks prospect Carey Terrance to make the Team USA World Junior Championship roster.
Flohockey's Chris Peters projects Ducks prospect Carey Terrance to make the Team USA World Junior Championship roster.
The 2024 World Junior Summer Showcase was held in Plymouth, Michigan between July 26 and Aug. 3. The Showcase serves as an "evaluation for athletes seeking to make their respective national teams for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship."
Nine games were played during the Showcase, which included teams from the USA, Canada, Finland, and Sweden. The World Junior Championship will be held between Dec. 26 and Jan. 5 in Ottawa, ON.
Following the nine-game showcase, Flohockey's Chris Peters projected which of the 46 US players would make their 23-man World Junior Championship roster.
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Peters projected Ducks prospect Carey Terrance (19) to make the WJC roster as their projected fourth-line center.
"The speed, physicality and willingness to defend are all things that made Terrance effective in camp," Peters wrote of Terrance following the Summer Showcase. "Coach David Carle remarked how much he is developing physically from a year ago at this time, getting stronger and being more effective in how he uses his frame. Terrance has the work ethic and the pace to play a role on USA’s lineup after not getting in a game at last year’s WJC."
Terrance (59th overall in 2023) made Team USA's 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship roster as the team's 14th forward but wasn't able to crack a lineup and see game action. USA went 7-0 in the tournament and won a gold medal.
Prior to the 2024 World Juniors, Terrance last represented the US at the IIHF U18 World Championship in May 2023, where he scored six points in seven games en route to a gold medal.
The Ducks drafted Terrance from the Erie Otters of the OHL at the tail end of the second round at the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. In 2022-23, Terrance led the second-to-last-place Otters in scoring with 30 goals and 47 points in 67 games, playing heavy minutes in all situations.
In 2023-24, Terrance increased his production on a per-game basis and finished fourth on his team in scoring, totaling 29 goals and 52 points in 56 games on a much-improved Erie team. He added four points in six playoff games, as the Otters lost their first-round matchup to the Kitchener Rangers in the OHL playoffs.
Terrance perfectly encapsulates the qualities Ducks General Manager Pat Verbeek and Assistant General Manager Martin Madden Jr. covet with their picks beyond the top of the draft when it comes to forwards.
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Terrance is a highly competitive and defensively responsible forward with a nose for the net. There aren't many races to loose pucks Terrance can't win due to his powerful and smooth forward stride. He uses his north-south tendencies to pressure pucks on the forecheck, get to the middle of the ice with and without the puck, and outwork opponents in tight areas of the ice.
Terrance will likely return to Erie following Ducks rookie camp in September where he'll assume more of a leadership role in his fourth full OHL season and hope to make the US World Junior Championship roster when selection time comes in December.
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