41 skaters invited to Canada's Summer WJC (including Klimchuk and Bennett)

[PlayfulGenius]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

There will be at least a few who will play in the NHL this season. Domi, Reinhart, Lazar, Petan and Horvat are all forwards that could make it. Ritchie and Dal Colle are also outside-shots from the 2014 draft that will get a good opportunity to play this year.

It's also quite reasonable that NONE of those players are in the NHL.

Even if just Ekblad, Reinhart and Lazar are in the NHL, that still looks like a really stacked team

[sureLoss]

Dave McCarthy @DaveAMcCarthy
Josh Ho-Sang on his omission from Team Canada #WJHC Camp: “The fact that I haven’t been invited to a camp, it’s insulting." More to come...

[Poe969]

The fact that he's saying that publicly kinda shows why he wasn't invited.

[dustygoon]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Dave McCarthy @DaveAMcCarthy
Josh Ho-Sang on his omission from Team Canada #WJHC Camp: “The fact that I haven’t been invited to a camp, it’s insulting." More to come...

At least he didn't blame race again.

[sureLoss]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=459703

"The fact that I haven't been invited to a camp, it's insulting," Ho-Sang said frankly. "I've done nothing to them (Hockey Canada). It's not like they invited me to U17 and U18 and I messed up at all that stuff. I haven't been invited back since my first year in the OHL in December. It's been a year and a half; I haven't been a part of any Hockey Canada stuff."

But he has a philosophy as to why invites have not been coming his way.

"They can't invite me to that stuff because they're afraid," he said. "If I go there and do well, then they have no reason not to put me on the World Junior team." Asked directly why Hockey Canada wouldn't want him on that team, Ho-Sang, looking puzzled, responded, "I don't know."

"If you're going to alienate an 18-year-old kid, like good job. Their job is development and progression of Canadian hockey. If I am a problem child, that means they don't like problems, that they have an issue with fixing things, that they like when things are easy. That actually means that they don't possess the ability to develop and that they are just taking players to fit their role that have been developed somewhere else."

His omission from consideration for Team Canada does not fuel his fire though. Ho-Sang clearly requires no validation for his ability. He prefers to look at it, not as confidence though, but as self-assuredness.

"It's not confidence, it's just that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with who I am," Ho-Sang explained. "I feel no need to change."

[rollie619]

It's an honour to play for Canada and he should realize that.

[StrykerSteve]

Everything I've seen or read on this kid makes him seem like a pompous prick. He certainly doesn't do himself any favours when he opens his mouth.

[Stupid]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=459703

The narcissism is strong in this kid.

[wwkayaker]

After reading about this guy over the past few months, I hope he never gets to play for Team Canada. I just don't think I could cheer for him.

[RyZ]

Team Canada should be honored that Josh Ho Sang would even consider showing up at one of their camps.

My God, I hope this guy goes the same way Schremp did. Big numbers in junoirs with his fancy stick work and then complete bust at the NHL level. I can't stand that kind of player/person.

[Tacoman]

More importantly, thank God that we didn't draft this punk.

[mile]

"If you're going to alienate an 18-year-old kid, like good job. Their job is development and progression of Canadian hockey. If I am a problem child, that means they don't like problems, that they have an issue with fixing things, that they like when things are easy. That actually means that they don't possess the ability to develop and that they are just taking players to fit their role that have been developed somewhere else."

When Hockey Canada selects the players they want on their team, they're choosing the ones that they believe will give them the best chance to win. They're not choosing players with the mindset that "we want to develop and fix this player." That is something you work on with your junior team and in the off-season.

It's hard to fix and develop skills over a two week tournament or a one week camp anyways. The ones that do make the team/camp and saw improvement in their game as a bonus were the ones that earned their spot in the first place. Ho-Sang doesn't understand that.

[OldDutch]

I think this speaks to maturity, something he hasn't developed yet. His advisers should be telling him the STFU however, as this only invites more scrutiny on a very far from finished player. He's got to realize he is losing chances by being like this rather than gaining them.

Come training camp the people choosing who this guy becomes will have a "Ok hot shot let's see.." mentality, for no reason other than his attitude.

[Ozy_Flame]

[old-fart]

Kid seems like a complete Summer's Eve. Glad he is not our prospect and hope he fails in spectacular fashion at the NHL level.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by OldDutch

I think this speaks to maturity, something he hasn't developed yet.

As if a 15 game suspension because of a hotheaded play wasn't enough.

I read somewhere that he is very much a Phil Kessel type of player with a Subban attitude (well, when Subban first broke into the league). That's the type of player I'd stay away from if I were the Flames or Team Canada. I mean, they sometimes work out. Kadri seems to be putting it together after his lack of serious commitment and the aforementioned Subban is starting to reign it in a little. But there are a tonne of red flags on Ho-Sang.

[TheDebaser]

Say what you will about this kid, at least what he says is actually interesting. It's nice that there's at least one hockey player out there with more personality than a bowl of stale oatmeal.

[Headshot]

Originally Posted by TheDebaser

Say what you will about this kid, at least what he says is actually interesting. It's nice that there's at least one hockey player out there with more personality than a bowl of stale oatmeal.

Although, to be fair their are more ways to be interesting then to be cocky and entitled.

[Swayze11]

He will fit great on Long Island.

[nik-]

I really have no problem with what he said. It's not like Hockey Canada has been killing it with their WJC teams for the last half decade.

That said, Ho Sang better bring it when he makes it to the NHL.