5 QMJHLers Added To Complete Team CHL Roster

The final batch of players added to team CHL for this year's edition of the CHL USA Prospects Challenge is complete, and five more top draft-eligible QMJHLers have been added to the roster.

Victoriaville goaltender Andrei Nikolayev, defencemen in Drummondville Filip Kovalcik and  Shawinigan's Vladimir Shtyrkhunov, and forwards in Saint John's Jamie Glance and Quebec's James Scantlebury are among the final set of names added to complete the roster.

The team for this year's event, to be held in Chicoutimi and Québec City, has been announced in three stages. Stars in Alexis Joseph and Carter Meyer were among the opening four names listed, before Malik L'Italien was listed as part of the second group of names.

Also added in this final batch is blueliner Odin Vauhkonen from WHL Victoria, as well as Ben Harvey from WHL Prince Albert, Camryn Warren from OHL North Bay and Bogdan Yakushevsky from OHL Windsor.

A team CHL prospects event has been a fixture over the past decade-plus, taking a few different forms over the years in terms of who's on the other side. This will be the third year of a CHL vs. USNTDP format, and the first to be held in Quebec.

The games will be held on Dec. 1 in Chicoutimi, and Dec. 2 in Québec City, with tons of NHL scouts in attendance to see how all of these guys look with and against other stars from their age group.

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