Canada men's national ice hockey team

Canada
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Team Canada
(Équipe Canada)
AssociationHockey Canada
Head coachAndré Tourigny
AssistantsDean Evason
Steve Ott
Jay Woodcroft
CaptainColton Parayko
Most gamesBrad Schlegel (304)
Top scorerBrad Schlegel
Most pointsCliff Ronning (156)
Team coloursRed, black, white[1]
     
IIHF codeCAN
Ranking
Current IIHF1 Steady (27 May 2024)[2]
Highest IIHF1 (2003–05, 2008, 2010, 2015–21, since 2023)
Lowest IIHF5 (2012–13)
First international
Canada  8–1   Switzerland
(Les Avants, Switzerland; January 10, 1910)
Biggest win
Canada  47–0  Denmark
(Stockholm, Sweden; February 12, 1949)
Biggest defeat
Soviet Union  11–1  Canada
(Vienna, Austria; April 24, 1977)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances77 (first in 1920)
Best resultGold Gold: 28 (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, 2023)
Canada Cup / World Cup
Appearances8 (first in 1976)
Best result Winner: 6 (1976, 1984, 1987, 1991, 2004, 2016)
Olympics
Appearances23 (first in 1920)
Medals Gold: 9 (1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1948, 1952, 2002, 2010, 2014)
Silver: 4 (1936, 1960, 1992, 1994)
Bronze: 3 (1956, 1968, 2018)
International record (W–L–T)
1237–425–132
Canada men's national ice hockey team
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1920 Antwerp Team
Gold medal – first place 1924 Chamonix Team
Gold medal – first place 1928 St. Moritz Team
Gold medal – first place 1932 Lake Placid Team
Gold medal – first place 1948 St. Moritz Team
Gold medal – first place 1952 Oslo Team
Gold medal – first place 2002 Salt Lake City Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Team
Silver medal – second place 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Team
Silver medal – second place 1960 Squaw Valley Team
Silver medal – second place 1992 Albertville Team
Silver medal – second place 1994 Lillehammer Team
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Team
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Grenoble Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Pyeongchang Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1920 Belgium Team
Gold medal – first place 1924 France Team
Gold medal – first place 1928 Switzerland Team
Gold medal – first place 1930 Austria/France/Germany
Gold medal – first place 1931 Poland
Gold medal – first place 1932 United States Team
Gold medal – first place 1934 Italy
Gold medal – first place 1935 Switzerland
Gold medal – first place 1937 Great Britain
Gold medal – first place 1938 Czechoslovakia
Gold medal – first place 1939 Switzerland
Gold medal – first place 1948 Switzerland Team
Gold medal – first place 1950 Great Britain
Gold medal – first place 1951 France
Gold medal – first place 1952 Norway Team
Gold medal – first place 1955 West Germany
Gold medal – first place 1958 Norway
Gold medal – first place 1959 Czechoslovakia
Gold medal – first place 1961 Switzerland
Gold medal – first place 1994 Italy
Gold medal – first place 1997 Finland
Gold medal – first place 2003 Finland
Gold medal – first place 2004 Czech Republic
Gold medal – first place 2007 Russia
Gold medal – first place 2015 Czech Republic
Gold medal – first place 2016 Russia
Gold medal – first place 2021 Latvia
Gold medal – first place 2023 Finland/Latvia
Silver medal – second place 1933 Czechoslovakia
Silver medal – second place 1936 Germany Team
Silver medal – second place 1949 Sweden
Silver medal – second place 1954 Sweden
Silver medal – second place 1960 United States Team
Silver medal – second place 1962 United States
Silver medal – second place 1985 Czechoslovakia
Silver medal – second place 1989 Sweden
Silver medal – second place 1991 Finland
Silver medal – second place 1996 Austria
Silver medal – second place 2005 Austria
Silver medal – second place 2008 Canada
Silver medal – second place 2009 Switzerland
Silver medal – second place 2017 Germany/France
Silver medal – second place 2019 Slovakia
Silver medal – second place 2022 Finland
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Italy Team
Bronze medal – third place 1966 Yugoslavia
Bronze medal – third place 1967 Austria
Bronze medal – third place 1968 France Team
Bronze medal – third place 1978 Czechoslovakia
Bronze medal – third place 1982 Finland
Bronze medal – third place 1983 West Germany
Bronze medal – third place 1986 Soviet Union
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Sweden
Canada Cup / World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal
Gold medal – first place 1984 Edmonton
Gold medal – first place 1987 Hamilton
Gold medal – first place 1991 Hamilton
Gold medal – first place 2004 Toronto
Gold medal – first place 2016 Toronto
Silver medal – second place 1981 Montreal
Silver medal – second place 1996 Montreal
Winter Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1981 Jaca Team
Gold medal – first place 1991 Sapporo Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Turin Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Trentino Team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Lake Placid Team
Silver medal – second place 1972 Lake Placid Team
Silver medal – second place 2001 Zakopane Team
Silver medal – second place 2009 Harbin Team
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Innsbruck Team
Bronze medal – third place 1987 Štrbské Pleso Team
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Muju-Jeonju Team
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Poprad-Tatry Team
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Tarvisio Team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Erzurum Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Granada-Štrbské Pleso Team
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Almaty Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Krasnoyarsk Team

The Canada men's national ice hockey team (popularly known as Team Canada; French: Équipe Canada) is the ice hockey team representing Canada internationally. The team is overseen by Hockey Canada, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. From 1920 until 1963, Canada's international representation was by senior amateur club teams. Canada's national men's team was founded in 1963 by Father David Bauer as a part of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, playing out of the University of British Columbia.[3] The nickname "Team Canada" was first used for the 1972 Summit Series and has been frequently used to refer to both the Canadian national men's and women's teams ever since.

Canada is the leading national ice hockey team in international play, having won the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, a record four Canada Cups dating back to 1976, a record two World Cups of Hockey, a record nine Olympic gold medals, and a record 28 World Championship titles.

Canada is one of the most successful national ice hockey teams in the world and a member of the so-called "Big Six", the unofficial group of the six strongest men's ice hockey nations, along with Russia, the United States, Sweden, Finland, and the Czech Republic.[4]

  1. ^ "Hockey Canada Logo Guidelines" (PDF). HockeyCanada.ca. Hockey Canada. March 27, 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 27, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  2. ^ "IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF. May 27, 2024. Retrieved May 27, 2024.
  3. ^ Hockey Canada
  4. ^ "NHL announces World Cup of Hockey for 2016". The Canadian Press. January 24, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.

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