Local connections abound at the 2025 World Junior Championship including on the roster of one of Canada’s biggest rivals.
Carey Terrance, a 19-year-old centre from Akwesasne, New York, is playing for the Americans and scored a goal to help Team USA defeat Germany 10-4 in their opening matchup on Boxing Day.
Terrance played for the Kemptville 73’s U18 AAA team during the 2020-2021 season under head coach and former Ottawa Senator Shean Donovan who is now the associate coach with the Central Canada Canada Hockey League’s Kemptville 73’s.
Terrance tells the Moose FM Newsroom that he was going into the first year the world was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021 and he was looking for a team to play for.
He says, while his time in Kemptville was short, it was “great” and adds that Donovan helped “develop him into the player that I am in a short time.”
Terrance adds that he was really happy with the decision to come to Kemptville.
Drafted by the National Hockey League’s Anaheim Ducks in 2023, Terrance is currently the captain of the Erie Otters in the Ontario Hockey League.
Growing up in the region, Terrance says playing at the Canadian Tire Centre in the World Junior Championship “means everything” adding that his family had season tickets for the Ottawa Senators for over ten years.
He adds he came to the CTC almost every weekend growing up.
