TSN's Laura Diakun is with Team Canada at the IIHF World Hockey Championship. Marc-Edouard Vlasic joined the team for their first practice in Paris, a day before tournament action begins.

- The team struggled with poor ice conditions because of the temperature at Accorshotel Arena in their first practice in Paris.

- Marc-Edouard Vlasic made his first appearance with Team Canada and was paired with Jason Demers.

- International player Chris Lee will remain with the team, giving them seven defencemen heading into the tournament.

- Sean Couturier was given a maintenance day after he was dinged up a bit against Team Switzerland.

- The lines were a little jumbled Thursday because of the loss of Couturier but by the end of practice the forwards looked like this:

O'Reilly-Scheifele-Skinner
MacKinnon-Duchene-Giroux
Schenn-Simmonds-Killorn
Marner-Point-Konecny