Players to watch at the 2022 IIHF World Hockey Championship

The 2022 IIHF World Hockey Championship will get underway on Tuesday at Rogers Place in Edmonton (Alberta), with rivals Czechia and Slovakia kicking-off the action at 2 p.m. ET/12 p.m. local.

This tournament will start fresh, with results from the cancelled December tournament being wiped. Each nation was able to bring their same roster, if they wished, with the IIHF keeping age eligibility the same as it was in December. That meant if a player turned 20 after the tournament was over, they were allowed to come back and participate in this event.

While it doesn't feel like a normal World Junior Championship, fans are in for an exciting tournament with several top prospects, and even some projected top-ten picks next year, all in action.

Let's take a look at one player on each roster you should keep an eye on throughout the tournament.

Austria: Senna Peeters (undrafted). 2021-22 statistics: seventeen points (five goals, twelve assists), 20 penalty minutes and was a minus-three in 34 games for the Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL).

Canada: Connor Bedard (2023 eligible). 2021-22 statistics: 100 points (51 goals, 49 assists), 42 penalty minutes and had an even-rating in 62 games with the Regina Pats (WHL).

Czechia: David Jiricek (CLB - 2022 1/6). 2021-22 statistics: eleven points (five goals, six assists), 49 penalty minutes and had an even-rating in 29 games with HC Plzen (Czech Extraliga).

Finland: Joakim Kemell (NSH - 2022 1/17). 2021-22 statistics: 23 points (fifteen goals, eight assists), two penalty minutes and was a minus-thirteen in 39 games with JYP (Liiga).

Germany: Alexander Blank (undrafted). 2021-22 statistics: sixteen points (five goals, eleven assists), 22 penalty minutes and was a minus-eighteen in 48 games with Krefeld (DEL).

Latvia: Dans Locmelis (BOS - 2022 4/119). 2021-22 statistics: 34 points (eighteen goals, sixteen assists), sixteen penalty minutes and was a plus-sixteen in 44 games with Lulea HF Jr (SWE-Jr).

Slovakia: Adam Sykora (NYR - 2022 2/63). 2021-22 statistics: seventeen points (ten goals, seven assists), six penalty minutes and was a plus-three in 46 games with HK Nitra (Slovak Extraliga).

Sweden: Simon Edvinsson (DET - 2021 1/6). 2021-22 statistics: nineteen points (two goals, seventeen assists), eighteen penalty minutes and was a plus-thirteen in 44 games with Frolunda HC (SHL).

Switzerland: Simon Knak (NSH - 2021 6/179). 2021-22 statistics: eleven points (six goals, five assists), ten penalty minutes and was a minus-two in 42 games with HC Davos (NL).

United States: Logan Cooley (ARI - 2022 1/3). 2021-22 statistics: 75 points (27 goals, 48 assists), 67 penalty minutes and was a plus-38 in 51 games with the US U-18 National Team Development Program.

Stay tuned to Markerzone.com for coverage of the 2022 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship, including game recaps beginning on Tuesday!

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