THE OLYMPICS
This Cole Harbour, N.S., native scored the overtime winner to give Canada a home-ice gold medal at Vancouver 2010.
Who is Sidney Crosby?
The pride of Shaunavon, Sask., she is the all-time leading scorer in the history of Canada’s National Women’s Team.
Who is Hayley Wickenheiser?
He was pretty ‘Great’ at the 1978 World Juniors in Montreal, leading Canada in scoring with 17 points in six games as a 16-year-old.
Who is Wayne Gretzky?
Before she was Captain Canada, she was recording the most points in National Women’s Under-18 Championship history, putting up 12 goals and 18 assists in 15 games with Quebec.
Who is Marie-Philip Poulin?
The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association was formed Dec. 4, 1914 when stakeholders from across the country gathered at the Chateau Laurier in this city.
What is Ottawa?
He wore the ‘C’ in Beijing, joining Sidney Crosby as the only players to captain Canada at the Olympic Winter Games and IIHF World Championship.
Who is Eric Staal?
Chasing a third world title this week in Utica, she is the great-granddaughter of Maple Leafs legend and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee King Clancy.
Who is Laura Stacey?
Twenty-one different Canadian cities have hosted at least five World Juniors games, including these five. Any five will do.
What are Brandon, Calgary, Cornwall, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Kamloops, Kelowna, Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Red Deer, Regina, Saskatoon, Selkirk, Sydney, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg?
The Centennial Cup, Canada’s National Junior A Championship, had this former Premier Partner as its title sponsor from 1996 to 2018.
What is RBC?
The 13th and final Member to join Hockey Canada, this organization was added in 1998, officially stretching the national governing body from coast to coast to coast.
What is Hockey North?
In 1994, he was the goaltender who allowed the iconic Peter Forsberg shootout goal in the Olympic gold medal game in Lillehammer. Today, he sits on the Hockey Canada Board of Directors.
Who is Corey Hirsch?
She made history in 2006, becoming the first Canadian – man or woman – to captain Canada to multiple Olympic gold medals. She made more in 2022 when she was elected to the Hockey Canada Board of Directors.
Who is Cassie Campbell-Pascall?
This Ontario Hockey League team has had the most representation on Canada’s National Junior Team since 1982 with 34 players, including Max Domi, Brendan Shanahan, Rick Nash and Mitch Marner.
Who are the London Knights?
Esso Cup champions in 2017, 2018 and 2019, they’re the only team to win a national championship – men’s or women’s – three consecutive times.
Who are the St. Albert Slash?
Any four of 11 Canadians who have earned membership in the IIHF Triple Gold Club – featuring players who have won Olympic gold, IIHF World Championship gold and the Stanley Cup.
Who are Rob Blake, Joe Sakic, Brendan Shanahan, Scott Niedermayer, Chris Pronger, Eric Staal, Jonathan Toews, Patrice Bergeron, Sidney Crosby, Corey Perry and Jay Bouwmeester?
Of the Winnipeg Falcons, RCAF Flyers, Trail Smoke Eaters and Edmonton Mercurys, the club team that did NOT win Olympic gold for Canada.
Who are the Trail Smoke Eaters?
Her goal in the 1990 Women’s Worlds gold medal game remains iconic more than 30 years later, and she was the first female defenceman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013.
Who is Geraldine Heaney?
A Team Canada legend behind the bench, he was the first coach to win World Juniors gold AFTER Olympic gold, guiding Canada to the top of the podium in Ottawa in 2009.
Who is Pat Quinn?
Three years before he was the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft and a decade before he was named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs, he played for the Notre Dame Hounds at the 1982 Air Canada Cup.
Who is Wendel Clark?
Few remember that this Hall of Famer was the third forward on the ice for the iconic Gretzky-to-Lemieux goal in the 1987 Canada Cup, and won the face-off in the Canadian zone that started the rush.
Who is Dale Hawerchuk?
Canada won its first women’s hockey Olympic gold in 2002 despite the best efforts of American referee Stacy Livingston, who called this many consecutive penalties on the Canadians.
What is 8?
Canada finished with the silver medal at the 2005 Women’s Worlds in Sweden despite icing the best defence in the tournament – it allowed this many goals in regulation and overtime across five games.
What is zero?
Connor Bedard became Canada’s all-time leading scorer at the World Juniors with his historic performance in 2023, passing these two players for most goals and points, respectively.
Who are Jordan Eberle and Eric Lindros?
The Cradle of Confederation, this Atlantic Canada capital city became the first to host all three spring national championships (Esso, TELUS, Centennial) when it welcomed the Esso Cup in 2012.
What is Charlottetown?
Dating back to 1979, these are the five individuals who have held the position of president of Hockey Canada.
Who are Murray Costello, Bob Nicholson, Tom Renney, Scott Smith and Kathy Henderson?