2021/2022 Canadian Men: News and Updates

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It seeme Bruce Waddell is continuing in singles as he just competed at Lake Placid in Sr. Mens.

Results link for the Lake Placid singles comp. is posted here: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/2022-u-s-club-nqs-competitions.109696/#post-6268372

Alec Guinzboug won the Junior Men's SP in Lake Placid, landing 3A (USFS awards 1 bonus point for this jump in junior), 3Lz+3T & 3Lo.

 

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Skate Canada's most recent Insta story included a shot from from Grayson Long's Instagram that shows him posing with his coaches and one of the 2022 Toller Cranston Awards : https://www.instagram.com/p/CfM91FcLLbd/

And in the fine tradition of Canadian men of about the last decade, it appears he's on his way to joining the Skate Canada basketball team.....

 

[Sylvia]

Skate Canada's most recent Insta story included a shot from from Grayson Long's Instagram that shows him posing with his coaches and one of the 2022 Toller Cranston Awards

2022 Junior men's champion Anthony Paradis also received one of the Toller Cranston awards (according to Patinage Quebec's Instagram post on June 13 - he's the 3rd photo): https://www.instagram.com/p/CewW9HkL0rR/

ETA:

Last spring, Wesley Chiu received the Toller Cranston award for the second consecutive year - April/May 2021 article:

Consistency earns skater Toller Cranston Award

Wesley Chiu recognized for second straight year

www.richmondsentinel.ca

For those who may have wondered why Paradis didn't receive an international assignment after Nationals, he posted back in April about recovering from a fractured (left) ankle and having to endure "a long 9 1/2 weeks without skating": https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccyr_0wrByB/
His latest post on June 3 was a clip of a successful 3Lo.

The 10 men named initially to the 2022-23 NextGen Team:

2022/23 Skate Canada NextGen Team

The 2022/23 NextGen Team listings are updated on Skate Canada’s website: https://skatecanada.ca/high-performance/nextgen/ Men David Bondar Wesley Chiu John Kim David Li Grayson Long Rio Morita Edward Nicholas Vasii Anthony Paradis Aleksa Rakic David Shteyngart Women Abbie Baltzer Fiona...

www.fsuniverse.net

Wesley Chiu [S3]
Aleksa Rakic [S8]
Anthony Paradis [J1]
Grayson Long [J2]
John Kim [J3]
Rio Morita [J4]
David Shteyngart [N1]
Edward Nicholas Vasii [N2]
David Bondar [N5]
David Li [N6]

Would one of our Canadians like to start the 2022-23 Canadian Men's news & updates thread now or wait until the National Team is named (last year's was announced on July 5) or maybe whenever the 2022 Grand Prix assignments are published?