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Seattle Thunderbirds center Florian Baltram has joined Team Austria for the 2015 World Junior Championship Division 1 Group A tournament, T-Birds general manager Russ Farwell announced Sunday.
The Division 1 Group A tournament takes place in Asiago, Italy, from Dec. 14 to Dec. 20 and features teams from six countries – Austria, Belarus, Italy, Latvia, Norway and Slovakia. The winner of this tournament will advance to the Main Group for the 2016 World Junior Championship.
Baltram has four assists in 29 games for the T-Birds. The T-Birds selected Baltram in the second round of the CHL Import Draft with the 108th overall selection. Baltram played for the Lower Austria Stars in the Austrian U20 league in the 2013-14 season. He played in 42 games and had 41 points on 17 goals and 24 assists.
Baltram was also a member of Team Austria at the U-18 Division 1 Group B World Championship in Hungary in April. He played in five games and had one goal and one assist. Baltram was born in 1997 and will be eligible for the NHL Draft for the first time next summer.
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