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Teams were required to be strictly amateur, so players from the Canadian-based National Hockey League (NHL) or other professional leagues were excluded. Canada sent the Winnipeg Falcons, who had won the 1920 Allan Cup, the amateur championship in Canada.
The games used the Canadian ice hockey rules, and the Bergvall system to determine medal winning teams. [5] The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) chose the Winnipeg Falcons as the 1920 Allan Cup champions to represent the Canada men's national team, instead of forming a national all-star team on short notice.
Members of the gold medal-winning Canadian men's ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Men's ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics , and permanently added to the Winter Olympic Games in 1924. [ 1 ]
Hewitt and the Winnipeg Falcons at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) chose the Winnipeg Falcons as the 1920 Allan Cup champions to represent the Canada men's national team in ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics, instead of forming a national all-star team on short notice.
Gordie Howe (1928–2016), ice hockey player; Bobby Orr (born 1948), ice hockey player; Lionel Conacher (1901–1954), multi-sport athlete (voted male athlete of the first half of the century) Maurice Richard (1921–2000), ice hockey player; Donovan Bailey (born 1967), track-and-field; Ferguson Jenkins (born 1943), baseball player; Mario ...
John Joseph Marks (February 8, 1882 – August 19, 1945) was a Canadian professional Hockey player who played professional ice hockey from 1906 until 1920, including 2 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Wanderers, Torontos and Quebec Bulldogs. He won 2 Stanley Cups with the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912 and 1913. He also won a ...
Winnipeg Falcons on route to the 1920 Summer Olympics. At the beginning of the 1920–21 season, Sterling was suspicious of multiple players changing their addresses for the purpose of playing on a new team. He declared that the CAHA would not tolerate the hockey "tourist", a player who moved from one team to another across Canada.
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 ...