READ | WORLD SELECTS INVITATIONAL SERIES; A CHANCE TO PLAY AGAINST THE BEST IN THE WORLD
The World Selects Invitational Series (WSI) represents the most prestigious international youth hockey events in the world. The new WSI series represent the merger of the previous WSI events and PLAY Hockey’s former World Youth Championships series. The result of this merger is a true “world best on best” format.
For the 2024 season, the 2012, 2011, and 2010 age groups will travel to various destinations in Europe to compete in their respective events, while Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will play host to the 2009, 2008 and 2007 age groups. Entry into the WSI events is highly limited as teams are recruited from broad geographical regions.
“For the past 19 years the tournaments have been designed with a goal to allow the players to get international experience and compete at the highest level at their own age group.” said Sergei Zak. “It is a great opportunity for the future stars of our game to compete head to head now in Bolzano, Bratislava, Prague, Chamonix!”
The WSI Series has a long history of having the future stars play in the tournaments. Current NHL stars that played in WSI events include the likes of:
- Gabriel Landeskog
- Seth Jones
- Darnell Nurse
- William Nylander
- Alex Tuch
- Aaron Ekblad
- Troy Terry
- Mitch Marner
- Connor McDavid
- & many more!
Over the next months, we will highlight draft years of all the players who played in the WSI events and were drafted into the National Hockey League.
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