Canadian national ice hockey team

Canada
Association	Hockey Canada
World ranking	1st place
Trainer	Gerard Gallant
Most games	Sean Burke (156)
Most of the points	Cliff Ronning (156)
statistics
First international match Canada 15: 0 Czechoslovakia Antwerp , Belgium ; April 24 , 1920
Biggest win Canada 47: 0 Denmark Stockholm , Sweden ; February 12 , 1949
Biggest defeat Canada 1:11 Soviet Union Vienna , Austria ; April 24 , 1977
Olympic games
Participations	20; since 1920
Best result:	nine-time Olympic champion
World Championship
Participations	67; since 1920
best result	27 times world champion
World cup
Participations	8th; since 1976
best result	six-time winner
(As of June 2021)

The Canadian national ice hockey team for men belongs to the Canadian ice hockey association " Hockey Canada " . Here, the one "Team Canada" in both the men's and the women to the best hockey teams in international competition. The men won four of the five Canada Cups between 1976 and 1991, two of the three World Cups of Hockey since 1996, nine gold medals at the Olympic Games and a total of 27 world champions . The men's team is currently in first place in the IIHF world rankings .

history

Canada is considered the "motherland" of ice hockey, which is why "Team Canada" has dominated international ice hockey for a long time. Up to and including 1963 , the Canadian amateur champion took part in the World Championships and Olympic Games. This team managed to dominate international ice hockey until the 1950s, winning six (out of a possible seven) Olympic gold medals and 13 world championships.

From 1954, however, Canada was replaced by the Soviet Union as the leading international ice hockey nation. While the Canadians' best players were bound by obligations in the National Hockey League , the Soviets were able to compete in all major tournaments with the best line-up. Until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 Canada could only win four world championships and no more Olympic gold medals. Canada no longer took part in the World Cup between 1970 and 1976. However, they won the prestigious Canada Cup four times , the only international tournament in which all NHL stars were available.

The opening of the Olympic ice hockey tournament for North American professional players from 1998 changed the balance of power at this tournament in favor of the Canadians. In 2002 , Team Canada won its first gold medal in fifty years. 2010 in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi achieved further Olympic triumphs. Winning the World Championships in 2015 and 2016 and winning the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , the successor to the Canada Cup, underpinned the regained dominance of the ice hockey motherland.

statistics

Canadian national team at the 2005 World Cup (game against Russia)

Canada Cup :	Wins : 4 - 1976 , 1984 , 1987 , 1991
World Cup of Hockey :	Wins : 2 - 2004 , 2016
Olympia :	Gold medals : 9 - 1920 , 1924 , 1928 , 1932 , 1948 , 1952 , 2002 , 2010 , 2014
World Championships :	Gold Medals : 27 - 1920, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2015, 2016, 2021

International results

year	competition	place	Result	team	Trainer
1920	Olympia / World Cup	Antwerp	Gold medal / world champion	Winnipeg Falcons	Gordon Sigurjonson
1924	Olympia / World Cup	Chamonix	Gold medal / world champion	Toronto Granites	Frank Rankin
1928	Olympia / World Cup	St. Moritz	Gold medal / world champion	University of Toronto	Conn Smythe
1930	WM	Chamonix, Vienna, Berlin	World Champion	Toronto CCM
1931	WM	Krynica	World Champion	Manitoba Grads
1932	Olympia / World Cup	Lake Placid	Gold medal / world champion	The Winnipegs	Jack Hughes
1933	WM	Prague	place 2	Toronto Sea Fleas
1934	WM	Milan	World Champion	Saskatoon Quakers
1935	WM	Davos	World Champion	Winnipeg Monarchs
1936	Olympia / World Cup	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Silver medal / 2nd place	Port Arthur Bearcats	Albert Pudas
1937	WM	London	World Champion	Kimberly Dynamiters
1938	WM	Prague	World Champion	Sudbury Wolves
1939	WM	Basel, Zurich	World Champion	Trail Smoke Eaters
1948	Olympia / World Cup	St. Moritz	Gold medal / world champion	RCAF flyers	Sgt. Frank Boucher
1949	WM	Stockholm	place 2	Sudbury Wolves
1950	WM	London	World Champion	Edmonton Mercury
1951	WM	Paris	World Champion	Lethbridge Maple Leafs
1952	Olympia / World Cup	Oslo	Gold medal / world champion	Edmonton Mercury	Lou Holmes
1954	WM	Stockholm	place 2	East York Lyndhursts
1955	WM	Cologne, Dortmund and others	World Champion	Penticton V's
1956	Olympia / World Cup	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Bronze medal / 3rd place	Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen	Bobby Bauer
1958	WM	Oslo	World Champion	Whitby Dunlops	Sid Smith
1959	WM	Prague, Bratislava and others	World Champion	Belleville McFarlands
1960	Olympia / World Cup	Squaw Valley	Silver medal / 2nd place	Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen	Bobby Bauer
1961	WM	Geneva, Lausanne	World Champion	Trail Smoke Eaters
1962	WM	Colorado Springs, Denver	place 2	Galt Terriers
1963	WM	Stockholm	4th place	Trail Smoke Eaters
1964	Olympia / World Cup	innsbruck	4th Place		David Bauer
1965	WM	Tampere	4th place
1966	WM	Ljubljana	place 3
1967	WM	Vienna	place 3
1968	Olympia / World Cup	Grenoble	Bronze medal		Jackie McLeod
1969	WM	Stockholm	4th place
1972	Summit Series	Canada, USSR	4S 3N 1U		Harry Sinden
1974	Summit Series	Canada, USSR	1S 4N 3U		Billy Harris
1976	Canada Cup	Canada	Tournament victory		Scotty Bowman
1977	WM	Vienna	4th place		Johnny Wilson
1978	WM	Prague	place 3		Harry Howell
1979	WM	Moscow	4th place		Marshall Johnston
1980	Olympia	Lake Placid	6th place		Lorne Davis , Clare Drake , Tom Watt (assistant coach)
1981	Canada Cup	Canada	place 2		Scotty Bowman
1981	WM	Gothenburg	4th place		Don Cherry
1982	WM	Helsinki, Tampere	place 3		Red Berenson
1983	WM	Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Munich	place 3		Dave King
1984	Canada Cup	Canada	Tournament victory		Glen Sather
1984	Olympia	Sarajevo	4th Place		Dave King
1985	WM	Prague	place 2		Doug Carpenter
1986	WM	Moscow	place 3		Pat Quinn
1987	WM	Vienna	4th place		Dave King
1987	Canada Cup	Canada	Tournament victory		Mike Keenan
1988	Olympia	Calgary	4th Place		Dave King
1989	WM	Stockholm, Södertälje	place 2		Dave King
1990	WM	Bern, Freiburg im Üechtland	4th place		Dave King
1991	WM	Turku, Helsinki, Tampere	place 2		Dave King
1991	Canada Cup	Canada	Tournament victory		Mike Keenan
1992	Olympia	Albertville	Silver medal		Dave King
1992	WM	Prague, Bratislava	7th place		Dave King
1993	WM	Munich, Dortmund	4th place		Mike Keenan
1994	Olympia	Lillehammer	Silver medal		Tom Renney
1994	WM	Bolzano, Canazei, Milan	World Champion		George Kingston
1995	WM	Stockholm, Gävle	place 3		Tom Renney
1996	WM	Vienna	place 2		Tom Renney
1996	World Cup of Hockey	Canada	place 2		Glen Sather
1997	WM	Helsinki, Turku	World Champion		Andy Murray
1998	Olympia	Nagano	4th Place		Marc Crawford
1998	WM	Zurich, Basel	Rank 6		Andy Murray
1999	WM	Oslo, Hamar, Lillehammer	4th place		Mike Johnston
2000	WM	St. Petersburg	4th place		Tom Renney
2001	WM	Cologne, Hanover, Nuremberg	4th place		Wayne Fleming
2002	Olympia	Salt Lake City	gold medal		Pat Quinn
2002	WM	Gothenburg, Jönköping, Karlstad	Rank 6		Wayne Fleming
2003	WM	Helsinki, Tampere, Turku	World Champion		Andy Murray
2004	WM	Prague, Ostrava	World Champion		Joel Quenneville
2004	World Cup of Hockey	Canada	Tournament victory		Pat Quinn
2005	WM	Vienna, Innsbruck	place 2		Marc Habscheid
2006	Olympia	Turin	7th place
2006	WM	Riga, Latvia	4th place
2007	WM	Moscow, Mytishchi	World Champion		Andy Murray
2008	WM	Quebec, Halifax	place 2		Ken Hitchcock
2009	WM	Bern, Zurich-Kloten	place 2		Lindy Ruff
2010	Olympia	Vancouver, Whistler	gold medal		Mike Babcock
2010	WM	Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Mannheim	7th place		Craig MacTavish
2011	WM	Bratislava, Košice	5th place		Ken Hitchcock
2012	WM	Helsinki, Stockholm	5th place		Brent Sutter
2013	WM	Stockholm, Helsinki	5th place		Lindy Ruff
2014	Olympia	Bolshoi Ice Palace, Sochi	gold medal		Mike Babcock
2014	WM	Minsk	5th place
2015	WM	Prague, Ostrava	World Champion		Todd McLellan
2016	WM	Moscow, St. Petersburg	World Champion		Bill Peters
2017	WM	Cologne, Paris	2nd place		Bill Peters
2018	Olympia	Gangneung, Pyeongchang	Bronze medal		Willie Desjardins
2018	WM	Copenhagen, Herning	4th Place		Bill Peters
2019	WM	Bratislava, Košice	Silver medal		Alain Vigneault
2021	WM	Riga	World Champion		Gerard Gallant

Team Canada at the Spengler Cup

The Spengler Cup has been won 16 times (1984, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019) by Team Canada . Team Canada is the record winner at the Spengler Cup in Davos.

Under the name Team Canada , an ice hockey team with players of Canadian origin has been competing at the Spengler Cup since 1984 . Besides HC Davos, it is the only team that competes in the Spengler Cup every year. These are usually under contract with European clubs during regular game play and only come together in this formation for this tournament.

Since the team consists to a large extent of players who are under contract with Swiss teams, this team contributes a lot to the attractiveness of the tournament. The winning team in 2012 was composed of 25 players who have played a total of 5889 NHL games, including Ryan Smyth , due to the lockout in the NHL .

Team Canada's Spengler Cup presence helped the tournament gain a live presence on Canadian television.

See also

• Ice hockey in Canada
• Canada Women's National Ice Hockey Team

Web links

Commons : Canada National Ice Hockey Team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Canadian Hockey Association "Hockey Canada"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anja Knabenhans: Team Canada with the best cast. In: NZZ am Sonntag . December 23, 2012.
2. ↑ Team Canada | Spengler Cup. In: www.spenglercup.ch. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .