Curtis Lazar isn’t going to try to hide it.

After finishing a disappointing fourth with Canada at the 2014 World Junior Hockey Championship in Sweden, the Edmonton Oil Kings forward and Ottawa Senators prospect wants another crack at it. Badly.

Really, really badly.

“I feel like there’s some unfinished business with the World Juniors, especially going through it this past year,” Lazar said. “If the opportunity arises and I get to represent my country, then I’m going to take that and run with it because I really want to lead that team to victory and get it back top of the world.”

Lazar and his Oil Kings teammate, goaltender Tristan Jarry, were named Monday to Canada’s National Junior Team summer development camp, and will join 39 of the country’s top junior hockey players on Aug. 3-8 in Quebec in Brossard, Montreal and Sherbrooke. The camp is the first and arguably best opportunity for players to make an impression on Hockey Canada’s braintrust who will select the team for competition at the 2015 World Junior, taking place Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Montreal and Toronto.

Lazar, who was one of Canada’s best players in Sweden, would seem a slam-dunk to return to the team and be a strong candidate to the wear the ‘C’, but there’s just one catch: The 19-year-old, who just a month ago helped lead the Oil Kings to the Memorial Cup, is going to get a good, long look from the Senators during the NHL pre-season.

If the Salmon Arm, B.C., native doesn’t make the cut and comes back to Edmonton, he’s a virtual lock for World Junior. But if the Senators keep him around, the question then becomes, would they allow him to join Team Canada?

“I have no idea, but I would love to be a part of the tournament, especially seeing how Canada reacts to it,” said Lazar. “Being overseas, the support we got was incredible, but to have that in Canada on our own home soil would be something else.”

Last year Lazar had Oil Kings captain Griffin Reinhart, who is now 20 and ineligible for World Junior, as his running mate at the summer camp. This time it’s Jarry, who in 2013-14, his first season as a starter, led the WHL in wins, shutouts and goals-against-average.

“It’s well-deserved, I can’t think of a more deserving guy,” Lazar said of his 19-year-old teammate, a Pittsburgh Penguins prospect who will almost certainly return for another season with the Oil Kings. “He’s always risen to the occasion and this is huge for him.”

It’s also huge for Lazar, who has a stated of goal of making the Senators, but is just as determined to lead his country.

“I really want to be a go-to guy, a focal point for the team, but also my teammates, and I want to help out,” he said.

“Anything can happen. I’ve still got to make the team and pay my dues that way, but I really do want to be a guy that can help out everyone and lead us to success.”