{"id":21795,"date":"2026-04-27T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21795\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:27:08","slug":"penn-state-mens-hockey-forward-gavin-mckenna-to-play-for-team-canada-at-2026-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21795\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Men&#8217;s Hockey Forward Gavin McKenna To Play For Team Canada At 2026 World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State men\u2019s hockey forward Gavin McKenna has committed to play for Team Canada in the 2026 World Championships, according to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Team Canada has added some big names to its Men\u2019s World roster. Celebrini, McKenna, Scheifele, Barzal all committed. Morgan Rielly has agreed to go to Switzerland as well.  More to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2048772500406874470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McKenna was the first Nittany Lion to win the Big Ten scoring title with 38 points on 11 goals and 27 assists in 24 conference games. He was also named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year, another first for Penn State. He set the Penn State single-game\u00a0scoring record against Ohio State with eight points in one game. <\/p>\n<p>The Whitehorse, Yukon, native had 51 points on the season and played in every game. He is projected to be the No. 1 draft pick in the upcoming NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna played in the World Junior Championships and won bronze for Team Canada. He had four goals and 14 assists in the tournament. He scored a hat-trick against Denmark in the preliminary round, getting named Player of the Game.<\/p>\n<p>While the status of whether McKenna is returning to play for the Nittany Lions is unknown, he will reportedly be in Switzerland in May with NHL stars like Macklin Celebrini, Mat Barzal, and Morgan Rielly. <\/p>\n<p>Please choose an option below.<\/p>\n<p>\tSign up for our e-mail newsletter: <\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/52800911856_59cd1aae88_o-scaled.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-full photo\" alt=\"\" scheme=\"https\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Alex is a third-year Journalism major from Sarasota, Florida. Alex is a huge Tampa Bay sports fan and even has a cat named Kucherov. You can contact her at <a href=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e5848396d3ddd3d1a5959690cb808190\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State men\u2019s hockey forward Gavin McKenna has committed to play for Team Canada in the 2026 World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10879,17,10880,10881,1225,10882,268,2023,10883,1564,10884,6788,271,2235,10885,10886,10887,10888,10889,10890,10891,10892,10893,6371,2019,10894,2022],"class_list":["post-21795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-big-ten","tag-canada","tag-freshman","tag-gavin","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-hcky","tag-hockey","tag-iihf","tag-iihf-championship","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-mat-barzal","tag-morgan-rielly","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-nhl-stars","tag-onward-state","tag-penn-state","tag-penn-state-hockey","tag-penn-state-mens-hockey","tag-psu","tag-puck","tag-roster","tag-roster-change","tag-switzerland","tag-team-canada","tag-team-canada-roster","tag-world-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}