DEV CAMP: World Junior snub has Kemp 'fired up'

EDMONTON, AB - Phil Kemp was close. So close.
All indications were that the Yale defenceman was part of Team USA's 2018 World Junior Championship squad last December until the unthinkable happened.
"I actually touched down in Buffalo, got off the bus and the coach pulled me into a room," the Oilers 2017 seventh-round pick said Tuesday at Development Camp. "It was tough last year."
Kemp was snubbed from the bronze medal-winning U.S. club, which featured 2017 first-round selection Kailer Yamamoto. It stained his mind and the 6-foot-3, 201-pound rearguard hopes not to experience it again.