The youngest player in the Calgary Flames organization will have a chance to make his case for a spot on Sweden’s national junior team next month.

On Wednesday, Sweden’s national ice hockey association announced the team’s roster for the upcoming 5 Nations event in Piestany, Slovakia in early November. That event features under-20 teams from Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Czechia and Slovakia, and it’s the last under-20 event before the World Junior Championship event over the December holidays.

So if you’re a European-based junior prospect, this is a great chance – your last chance – to make case for yourself for your national junior team.

Flames prospect Theo Stockselius, a forward with Djurgardens IF in Sweden’s top junior league, was named to Sweden’s roster for this event.

A second-round pick of the Flames back in June’s draft, Stockselius is a July 2007 birthday and was one of the youngest players in his draft class. He didn’t participate in the World Junior Summer Showcase back in July, but he was part of Sweden’s roster at the August edition of the 5 Nations and was by all accounts one of Sweden’s best players on a team that purposefully didn’t take anybody that had been at the Summer Showcase (and was fairly lean on NHL draftees as a result).

The November roster is, by contrast, pretty full of prospective NHLers. In addition to Stockselius, there’s goaltender G Love Harsenstam (Blues), blueliners Leo Sahlin Wallenius (Sharks), Viggo Gustafsson (Predators), Victor Johansson (Maple Leafs), Alfons Freij (Jets) and Karl Annborn (Kraken), and forwards Milton Gastrin (Capitals), Lucas Pettersson (Ducks), Melvin Fernstrom (Penguins), Linus Eriksson (Panthers), Anton Frondell (Blackhawks), Victor Eklund (Islanders), Eddie Genborg (Red Wings) and Jack Berglund (Flyers).

The tendency for national teams is to bring more 19-year-olds than 18-year-olds to the World Juniors, which could work against Stockselius given he just turned 18 in July. However, if Stockselius can find a way to stand out among a crowd of fellow NHL draft choices, we can’t imagine Sweden’s brass will turn a blind eye to that. Stockselius stood out in August. We’ll see if he can do it again in November.

The 5 Nations event runs Nov. 3-8 in Piestany, Slovakia.

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