Canada national bandy team

The Canada national bandy team (French: Équipe nationale de bandy du Canada) refers to the bandy teams representing Canada. There is the men's national team and the women's national team. Both teams are overseen by the Manitoba Bandy Federation and Canada Bandy,[1] members of the Federation of International Bandy. This article deals chiefly with the national men's team. For the women's team please see Canada women's national bandy team.

Canada Men's National Bandy Team
AssociationCanada Bandy
Head coachGöran Svensson
Team colors   
Home colours
Away colours
First international
 United States 10–0 Canada 
(Porvoo, Finland; 17 March 1991)
Biggest win
 Canada 18–0 Estonia 
(Kazan, Russia; 1 February 2005)
Biggest defeat
 Russia 22–1 Canada 
(Irkutsk, Russia; 30 January 2014)
Bandy World Championship
Appearances15 (first in 1991)
Best result6th (1991, 1993)
The Canadian men's national bandy team at 2012 Bandy World Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan

The initial organizations for bandy in Canada were called the "Bandy Federation of Manitoba" and "Canada Bandy Association/Federation". Bandy was first introduced in Canada, in the city of Winnipeg in 1986.[2] The men compete in the Bandy World Championship while the women compete in the Women's Bandy World Championship.

While Canada is a country with a strong tradition in ice hockey and ringette, they are both ice rink sports, and there are no artificial ice rinks large enough to qualify as regulation sized bandy fields in Canada. As a result, Canada's national men's team practices at home on ice hockey rinks or other substitute surfaces (in the past, the Canadian women's bandy team practiced on a frozen water hazard on a Winnipeg golf course) but occasionally goes to the United States to practice in areas where full-sized bandy fields exist.[3]

The Canadian team also continues to play in the annual Can-Am Bandy Cup.[4]

Performance

The men's team has competed in the annual Bandy World Championship several times starting in 1991.

In 2005, the men's team participated in the championship in Kazan, Russia, where they lost to the Belarus national bandy team for the "B" title.[5]

At the 2010 Bandy World Championship Canada won Group B for the first time. Canada, however, lost the Group A qualification match against the United States by a score of 6–9, and thus would again play in Group B at the 2011 Bandy World Championship in Kazan, Russia.[6] For this Championship Canada's team included 4 players playing professionally in club teams in Sweden.[7] Canada did not participate in the 2015 Bandy World Championship. There were reports about them returning to the 2016 WCS,[8] which they in the end did not.[9] However, the team participated in the 2017 World Championship,[10] where they won the Gold Medal of the Division B tournament,[11][12] qualifying for Division A in 2018. Still Canada will not participate in the 2018 WCS.[13]

World Championship record
TournamentFinal standing
Finland 1991Finished in 6th place (2nd in Group B)
Norway 1993Finished in 6th place (2nd in Group B)
USA 1995Finished in 7th place (3rd in Group B)
Sweden 1997Finished in 7th place (2nd in Group B)
Russia 1999Did not participate
Finland and Sweden 2001Did not participate
Russia 2003Did not participate
Sweden 2004; (B-group in Hungary)Finished in 9th place (4th in Group B)
Russia 2005Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B)
Sweden 2006Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B)
Russia 2007Did not participate
Russia 2008Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B)
Sweden 2009Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B)
Russia 2010Finished in 7th place (1st in Group B, lost qualification to Group A in 2011)
Russia 2011Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B)
Kazakhstan 2012Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B)
Sweden 2013Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B)
Russia 2014Finished in 8th place (last in Division A)
Russia 2015Did not participate
Russia 2016Did not participate
Sweden 2017Finished in 9th place, (1st in group B) moving up to group A
Russia 2018Did not participate
Sweden 2019Finished in 14th place (6th in Group B)

2014 squad

Canadian squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, 26 January – 2 February 2014.[14]

Pos. Age Name Club
GK Brian Bell Winnipeg
GK 29 Ronnie Lintic Nature Boys
DF 47 Costa Cholakis Winnipeg
DF 25 Chris Karasewich Winnipeg
DF 28 Jeremy Ross Winnipeg
MF 25 Drew Ellement Winnipeg
MF 25 Brady Fisher Winnipeg
MF 29 Brett Gavrailoff Winnipeg
MF 25 Curtis Krul Winnipeg
MF 25 Jeff Krul Winnipeg
MF 27 John Murray Winnipeg
FW 25 Brandon Ellement Winnipeg
FW 25 Colin Hekle Winnipeg
FW 27 Steve Landerville Winnipeg
FW 28 Nick Mazurak Winnipeg
FW 28 Brook Robson Winnipeg
FW 24 Brendon Sedo Blue Jeys

References
  1. "Canada Bandy". Canada Bandy.
  2. "History of Canadian Bandy". globalbandy.proboards.com/.
  3. "Bandy: A New Olympic Sport?". Youtube. Shaw TV/Go Winnipeg.
  4. Team USA Defeats Canada 6-2 in Annual Border Battle
  5. Prest, Ashley (2 May 2005). "Canada's bandy team wins silver" (PDF). Winnipeg Free Press. FP Canadian Newspapers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 June 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Prest, Ashley (26 January 2010). "Bandy's dandy, and travelling the world is OK, too". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  8. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rusbandy.ru%2Fnews%2F8080%2F
  9. "Teams". Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  10. Playing schedule of WCS Group B
  11. Geary, Aidan (29 January 2017). "'Total euphoria' as Team Canada brings home world cup for bandy (CBC web site)". Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  12. YouTube video with the goals from the final
  13. "The national team of Canada won't come to Khabarovsk again". Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  14. Teams Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine 2014 Bandy World Championship Official Homepage. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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