Montreal Canadiens: Three Habs Prospects Poised To Dominate Upcoming World Juniors

Filip Mesar

Filip Mesar was a first round pick of the Canadiens in the 2022 NHL Draft and has been playing with the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL since then.

He had a solid first season in Canada’s top Junior league, scoring 51 points in 52 games and parlayed that into a strong World Juniors last winter. Mesar was on a scrappy Slovakian squad and helped them compete by putting up six points in five tournament games. They were an underdog but beat USA in a round robin game and lost to Canada in overtime in the quarterfinals.

This season, Mesar looks like a much more dominant player on the ice with the Rangers. While he was a point per game performer last season, he is much closer to two points per game this season with 12 goals and 29 points in 17 games thus far. He was named the OHL’s Player of the Month in November, and has a chance to be named the player of the tournament at the World Juniors.

It would take a surprising run by Slovakia to the medal round, but with Mesar potentially joined by Dalibor Dvorksy, Martin Misiak and Simon Nemec, you never know. What we do know is he looked great a year ago at this event and is a much better player this season so he is poised to have a monster tournament while playing a ton of minutes for a team that is not as deep as some other countries who will be competing.

If he clicks with Dvorksy at even strength, and Misiak joins them to form a dominant power play, Mesar could be piling up points at this tournament and should be in the running for a Tournament All-Star Team nod is not an MVP performance.