It’s every young hockey player's dream to represent Canada and Moose Jaw's Bryan Thomson has moved one step closer to making that a reality.

Thomson was one of 12 goalies, and 111 players, that received an invite to Hockey Canada's Under-17 Summer Development Camp last week.

"I was pretty happy to get the call, shocked at first, it didn't settle in for a couple hours, but everyone in my house was pretty excited," said Thomson.

"It's not something that happens everyday, so it's pretty cool."

Thomson was a second round selection, 37th overall, in the 2017 WHL Bantam Draft by the Lethbridge Hurricanes. He played last season for the Notre Dame Argos in the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League.

In 28 games, Thomson had a 4.22 goals against average and a .890 save percentage, but on a team that finished in last place in the league.

"It wasn't the turnout that we wanted, but we came closer together at the end of the year and if we had our full lineup from the start of the year to the end, it could have went a little better. Overall it was a fun experience," said Thomson.

"I feel like I developed pretty good, got quite a few shots, so that was nice to have, get a lot of practice with seeing a lot of shots from some good players in that league."

Thomson faced an average of 32 shots per game over the course of the season. While he'd like to face as few of shots as possible with his team winning, Thomson said this season was a good learning experience.

"Facing a lot of shots in a game makes you better and prepares you for every situation in every game, you never know when you’re going to have to dig, so you've got to be ready at all times," said Thomson.

After testing himself against Saskatchewan's best throughout the season and Western Canada's best at the WHL Cup last November, Thomson will now get to see how he matches up with the best players in his age group from across the country.

The 16-year-old netminder said he's ready for the challenge.

"It's going to be a lot of fun, just seeing where I compare to everyone else, that will be interesting, but I'm mostly going there to make one of the final rosters," he said.

With a month to go until the camp, Thomson said he's going to just continue working on his game as he prepares for the U17 Camp and Hurricanes' training camp.

"A big goal of mine is to stay in Lethbridge this year, I want to have the same mindset going into that camp as well, just keep working on what I've got to work on, small details and just keep getting stronger," said Thomson.

The Hockey Canada Under-17 Summer Development Camp will be hosted in Calgary on July 21-27.