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Hockey Canada camps feature local ties

Hockey Canada is set to hold camps for its Program of Excellence later this summer and players with ties to Sault Ste. Marie will be abundant
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As Hockey Canada and USA Hockey announced the rosters for their respective national team camps this summer, the Soo Greyhounds were well represented.

A pair of Greyhounds were among the 42 players selected to participate in the 2017 World Junior Summer Showcase in Plymouth, Mich. in August.

Defenceman Conor Timmins and forward Boris Katchouk were both selected to participate.

Eligible for this weekend’s NHL Draft, Timmins is coming off a season that saw him have a major impact on the Greyhounds blueline. In 67 games, Timmins scored seven times while adding 54 assists.

Katchouk, a Tampa Bay Lightning prospect, scored 35 goals and 64 points in 66 regular season games, setting career highs in the process. He went on to add eight goals and 13 points in 11 playoff games.

Katchouk signed an entry level contract with the Lightning in late-April.

As USA Hockey announced the 42 players that will attend the World Junior Summer Showcase, Greyhounds forward Tim Gettinger was among the 25 forwards selected to participate.

The 19-year-old winger is coming off a career year with the Greyhounds that saw him set career highs in goals (31), assists (23) and points (54).

The New York Rangers draft pick signed an entry level deal with the club in March.

After a solid rookie season with the Greyhounds after being the organization’s top pick in the 2016 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection, Barrett Hayton will participate in Hockey Canada’s Summer Showcase, set to open at the end of July in Calgary, Alta.

Hayton was one of 44 players selected to compete for a spot on Canada’s National Men’s Under-18 team that will play in the 2017 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup in August.

In his first season with the Greyhounds, Hayton scored nine goals and 27 points in 63 games and was a member of Team Canada White at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Sault Ste. Marie in November.

Goaltender Jacob Ingham, a Barrie-native and member of the OHL’s Mississauga Steelheads who has family in Sault Ste. Marie, is also competing for a spot on Canada’s Under-18 team.

Forward Nolan Foote, son of former Greyhounds defenceman Adam Foote, is also participating in the camp, while his older brother Cal, a defenceman, is at the National Junior Team camp.

The Under-17 development camp, also set for Calgary in late-July, will also see some ties to the Greyhounds and the city of Sault Ste. Marie.

Sault native Nic Porco, who spent last season in the GTHL with the Vaughan Kings was selected in the first round of the OHL Priority Selection by the Saginaw Spirit will compete in the camp, as will Camaryn Baber, a Sault product who played last season with the Great North Midget League’s Soo Greyhounds and is the son of former Greyhounds Brad Baber. He was a third round pick of the OHL’s Saginaw Spirit.

Hayden Fowler, a first round pick of the Greyhounds after a solid season with Greater Kingston last year, was one of three Greyhounds prospects selected to participate in the camp.

Defenceman Robert Calisti, who spent last season with the Greater Toronto League’s Toronto Nationals and was a third round pick of the Greyhounds, is also in the camp.

Joe Carroll, a fourth round pick of the Greyhounds who recently signed with the club is among the forwards in the camp, which begins on July 22.

The 2017 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge round robin opens on Nov. 5 in Dawson Creek and Fort St. John, B.C.


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Brad Coccimiglio

About the Author: Brad Coccimiglio

A graduate of Loyalist College’s Sports Journalism program, Brad Coccimiglio’s work has appeared in The Hockey News as well as online at FoxSports.com in addition to regular freelance work with SooToday before joining the team full time.
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