Posts About "Hockey Canada"
No NHL Draft Guarantees for Canada's Hlinka Hopefuls
July 30th, 2017 For players dreaming of being selected in the annual National Hockey League entry draft, the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament is a big deal. Held annually since 1991, the Hlinka Tournament is the first major event of the draft cycle – pitting the top under-18 players from eight countries against each other in a rare best-on-best event....
Oilers Snubbed from Canada's WJC Selection Camp
December 1st, 2016 Hockey Canada named their 32 man selection camp roster for the upcoming World Junior Championships (WJC), and the Edmonton Oilers are without a prospect on that list. Edmonton has several notable junior prospects but when it comes to Canada both forward Tyler Benson and defenseman Ethan Bear did not receive invites to camp. Of the...
Team By Team Guide: 2016 World Cup Of Hockey
March 3rd, 2016 With the World Cup of Hockey preliminary 16 player rosters named yesterday there are some interesting facts to note. Canada is heavily favored to win the tournament that takes place this fall with even Team USA general manager Dean Lombardi stating he had to build a team that could defeat Canada. Each NHL team is represented in the...
Hockey Canada and P.K. Subban
March 2nd, 2016 So what gives? While it has yet to be made official it appears as though Hockey Canada has decided to leave Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban off their list of 16 players they will announce as locks to represent Team Canada at this summer's much-anticipated World Cup of Hockey. Sorry but with all due respect to general manager...
Canada Trumps Russia In First Summer Tune-Up
August 4th, 2015 Mitch Marner is pretty good at ice hockey. The Hockey Canada brass has a lot of decisions to make and questions to answer in the months leading up to the World Junior Hockey Championship, but whether Marner can hack it against high-end talent is not up for debate. Marner was the star of the first exhibition game put on by Hockey...
Will Youngstars Experiment Fall Flat in 2016 World Cup?
June 9th, 2015 Like advertisements on NHL uniforms, the re-institution of the World Cup of Hockey was inevitable. It was only a matter of time before the league brought back their own tournament under their own auspices. The NHL was leaving too much money on the table by not having their own sanctioned international competition and it was about time...
5 Things That Led to Canada's Gold
January 6th, 2015 When the final buzzer sounded at the Air Canada Centre Monday night, it was barely heard as fans cheered uncontrollably as Canada had won their first gold medal since 2009. The 2015 edition of the World Junior Hockey Championship came to a close with a thrilling 5-4 win by the host nation. The Canadians won their first medal since a...
Hockey Canada Can Forget about Getting Bo Horvat for WJC
December 6th, 2014 Rookie Bo Horvat is too Valuable to Lend The Canucks never expected 19-year-old rookie Bo Horvat to explode into the NHL the way he did this year. Early in the season, Coach Willie Desjardins was opposed to the idea of a teenager in an NHL locker room, as it was reported that Desjardins wasn’t comfortable deploying such an...
Dan Church: How To Grow Women's Hockey
May 8th, 2014 The rise of women's hockey has gained great publicity over the past decade culminating in it's celebration at the Olympics every four years. But what we don't see are the struggles the game has at the grass roots level in enrollment, the struggles of scouting, finding prominence and player development world wide. The game style is simply...
The Demise of Canadian Goalies
January 6th, 2014 Patrick Roy. Jacques Plante. Martin Brodeur. Ken Dryden. Glenn Hall. The list of superstar Canadian goalies of the past could go on forever. It could be argued that nine of the top ten goaltenders in the history of hockey are all Canadians, with Dominik Hasek being the obvious exception. For the first 135 years of the...
Making a Case for Jamie Benn on Team Canada
November 13th, 2013 The quest for gold and national pride at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is getting closer for Canada. And Jamie Benn hopes to be a part of it. He deserves it. On June 22, 2013, Hockey Canada released the roster for its Olympic orientation camp. As expected, the list was loaded with super stars and tremendous talents. The likes of...
Canada Unveils Coaching Staff and Orientation Camp Roster for Sochi
July 23rd, 2013 Two important announcements were made this week by Hockey Canada and specifically 2014 Olympic architect Steve Yzerman. They announced that Mike Babcock would be behind the bench again to lead Canada at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, aided by assistants Ken Hitchcock, Lindy Ruff and Claude Julien. Babcock was the bench boss...
NHL Draft Radar: Team Canada U18 Projected Roster
April 1st, 2013 Guest post by Eldon MacDonald (edited by Chris Ralph) I thought that I would take a stab at projecting Team Canada’s U18 team for the upcoming U18 World Championship, commencing April 18th , 2013 in Sochi, Russia. http://twitter.com/hockeyprospect/status/316625102336839681 First, I reviewed all the CHL teams that...
