CHL Top Prospect Rosters Announced

10 WHL players will take part in this year's CHL Top Prospects Game in Kelowna. The game will take place on February 1st, 2012. A 3 on 3 game and skills challenge will take place the day before.

The rosters look like this:

Team Cherry (Red):

Goaltenders:
Matthew Murray (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds)
Brandon Whitney (Victoriaville Tigres)

Defencemen:
Cody Ceci (Ottawa 67's)
Mathew Dumba (Red Deer Rebels)
Nick Ebert (Windsor Spitfires)
Slater Koekkoek (Peterborough Petes)
Ryan Murray (Everett Silvertips)
Damon Severson (Kelowna Rockets)

Forwards:
Martin Frk (Halifax Mooseheads)
Brendan Gaunce (Belleville Bulls)
Coda Gordon (Swift Current Broncos)
Charles Hudon (Chicoutimi Sagueneens)
Scott Laughton (Oshawa Generals)
Jarrod Maidens (Owen Sound Attack)
Andrew Ryan (Halifax Mooseheads)
Gemel Smith (Owen Sound Attack)
Dominik Volek (Regina Pats)
Thomas Wilson (Plymouth Whalers)
Nail Yakupov (Sarnia Sting)
Daniil Zharkov (Belleville Bulls)

Team Orr (White):

Goaltenders:
Malcolm Subban (Belleville Bulls)
Francois Tremblay (Val d'Or Foreurs)

Defencemen:
Gianluca Curcuruto (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds)
Matthew Finn (Guelph Storm)
Olli Maatta (London Knights)
Adam Pelech (Erie Otters)
Derrick Pouliot (Portland Winterhawks)
Griffin Reinhart (Edmonton Oil Kings)

Forwards:
Andreas Athanasiou (London Knights)
Francis Beauvillier (Rimouski Oceanic)
Raphael Bussieres (Baie-Comeau Drakkar)
Radek Faksa (Kitchener Rangers)
Mikhail Grigorenko (Quebec Remparts)
Tomas Hyka (Gatineau Olympiques)
Scott Kosmachuk (Guelph Storm)
Matia Marcantuoni (Kitchener Rangers)
Tanner Pearson (Barrie Colts)
Colton Sissons (Kelowna Rockets)
Chandler Stephenson (Regina Pats)
Lukas Sutter (Saskatoon Blades)


It's nice to see 10 guys from the WHL taking part. Surprisingly there are 5 defenceman and 5 forwards from the WHL, even though the strength of the WHL crop is clearly on the blueline. I would've liked to have seen Dalton Thrower there, but both team's bluelines are pretty crowded.

I always look forward to this event to see how the top draft eligible players react against the top competition in Canada. With that being said, the casual prospect follower tends to put WAY too much stock into this game as a whole.