Nathan MacKinnon, Jordan Binngton and Brayden Schenn added to Canada’s 2025 World Championship roster
A few big names are going to play a little more hockey overseas.
On Thursday, Hockey Canada announced that forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Brayden Schenn, as well as goaltender Jordan Binnington, have been added to the Canadian roster for the 2025 IIHF Men’s World Championship.
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All three players have been recently eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Schenn and Binnington are trying to recover from significant heartbreak, as they and the St. Louis Blues lost in double overtime to the Winnipeg Jets in Game 7 of Round 1. MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche also fell at the hands, and stick, of Dallas Stars forward Mikko Rantanen in a seventh game.
MacKinnon had been rumored to be joining the Canadians for the big international event in Sweden, ready to join fellow Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia native and Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby in the tournament. Crosby, Binnginton, MacKinnon and Travis Konecny were all on the Team Canada roster that won the 4 Nations Face-Off back in January.
Prior to this season, MacKinnon hadn’t played for his country since the 2017 world championship. In his career, he’s played at the Men’s Worlds three times, winning gold with Crosby and Canada in 2015.
Binnington backstopped Canada at last year’s world championship in Czechia, with the team falling short in the bronze medal game against Sweden. It was the Stanley Cup champion’s first experience with the senior national team and just the second time Binnington had ever played for the Canadians in a major international event.
With Binnington, Canada has a solid duo between the pipes as the soon-to-be-retired Marc-Andre Fleury was added to the roster earlier this week.
This is Schenn’s fourth appearance at the Men’s Worlds and the first since 2018. Another member of the stacked 2015 gold-medal-winning squad, the Saskatoon native also has a silver medal from the 2017 edition of the tournament.
The three players certainly bolster a roster that has young talent like San Jose Sharks forward Macklin Celebrini and Columbus Blue Jackets center Adam Fantilli, along with veterans Ryan O’Reilly (Nashville Predators) and Bo Horvat (New York Islanders).
Canada is set to open its Group A schedule on Saturday in Stockholm, taking on Slovenia.