From the Denver Post’s Mike Chambers: Red Wings prospect and University of Denver Pioneers defenseman Antti Tuomisto tore up the Finnish under-20 league last season, but Pioneers coach David Carle revealed that Tuomisto won’t be taking part in the Finnish World Junior Championship team’s exploits in Edmonton:
DU will be without star sophomore forward Bobby Brink for the next 7-9 games. Brink has reported to the U.S. World Junior camp in Plymouth, Mich. Tuomisto, already a top-pair defenseman for DU, probably wasn’t named to Finland’s WJC roster because he hadn’t played games like his countrymen back home. “Their loss is clearly our gain, that we get to keep him the whole time here in the pod,” Carle said of Finland and Tuomisto.
