Washington Capitals' 2021 fifth-round draft selection Haakon Hanelt has made Germany's U-20 World Junior Championship team.Hanelt was recently in DC for this year's Development Camp.The German forward will join up with his teammates in Edmonton where the entire tournament will be played in mid-August.The final squad for the Junior World Cup in 🇨🇦 has been set 🏒 Together with 23 players, U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter & his coaching team are starting the long journey.Haakon Hänelt & Luca Münzenberger join them on site.More info here 👉 https://t.co/h1sGSOfPl7 pic.twitter.com/rPGQVLOZ9O— German Ice Hockey Federation (@deb_teams) July 31, 2022Hanelt was originally drafted by the Caps from Eisbären Berlin in the DEL, the highest level of play in professional German ice hockey.He was the first German player the Capitals had drafted since taking Philipp Grubauer in 2010.He spent the 2021-22 season in the QMJHL with the Gatineau Olympiques where due to injury struggles he only got into 16 regular season games and six playoff games for the team.A post shared by Håkon Hänelt (@hakon_9)The 2022 tournament was originally scheduled to be held from December 26, 2021, through January 5, 2022, in Edmonton and Red Deer.On December 29, after several games were canceled and declared forfeits due to COVID-19 positives within teams, the IIHF announced that the tournament had been canceled.The rescheduled action will begin on August 9 when Germany takes on Team USA at Rogers Place.Headline photo via @hakon_9/InstagramRussian Machine Never Breaks is not associated with the Washington Capitals;Monumental Sports, the NHL, or its properties.Not even a little bit.All original content on russianmachineneverbreaks.com is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)– unless otherwise stated or superseded by another license.You are free to share, copy, and remix this content as long as it is attributed, done for non-commercial purposes, and done so under a license similar to this one.