Posts About "Team Canada"
Canadiens Victor Mete Being Considered for the Olympics?
January 5th, 2018 This year, Olympic Men's Ice Hockey teams will largely consist of below NHL-level talent or younger players who have not gotten their NHL shot. Montreal Canadiens top prospect Victor Mete may not fall into those categories, but he could be in a class of his own - the only player on an Olympic Roster to have played this season in the...
Flyers Prospect Shines on International Ball Hockey Stage
June 30th, 2017 At 22 years of age, Danick Martel's professional hockey career is just beginning. The diminutive forward wrapped up his second season with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in May where he netted 20 goals and 20 assists in 68 games. While he is eyeing a leap to the NHL in the near future, Martel recently reached another milestone in his hockey...
Sledge Hockey: Can Team Canada Catch Team USA?
October 18th, 2016 The fierce rivalry between Team Canada and Team USA is alive and well in the Paralympic sport of sledge hockey. If you haven’t seen a game yet, sledge hockey made its debut at the Lillehammer Paralympic Winter Games in 1994. The sport is fast-paced, highly physical and played by war-veterans and other male and female athletes with a...
The Unstoppable Team Canada
September 30th, 2016 If there was ever any doubt that Team Canada was the most dominant hockey nation in the world, those doubts can now officially be put to rest. Before the World Cup of Hockey started, in one of my original pieces I posed the question of whether or not Team Canada would dominate the tournament. Now that Canada has officially won the...
Do Fans Care About World Cup?
September 29th, 2016 The Air Canada Centre was sold out for game one of the World Cup of Hockey final, but the empty seats were evidence that not everyone actually attended. On the television side, the ratings on Sportsnet were only slightly higher than the Toronto Blue Jays game, which was running simultaneously (and in the same city). On social media, the...
Canada One Win Away From the World Cup, But Just Barely
September 28th, 2016 Don't let the Europeans hang around. That was the game plan for Team Canada. But, rather than take advantage of the dominant puck possession they had in the first period, the Canadians didn't press for more and got sloppy. Bad turnovers and dropped passes allowed Team Europe to stay in the game. And credit to them, they had a lot of...