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The Canada Cup (French: Coupe Canada) was an invitational international ice hockey tournament held on five occasions between 1976 and 1991. The brainchild of Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson, the tournament was created to meet demand for a true world championship that allowed the best players from participating nations to compete regardless of their status as professional or amateur.
The World Cup of Hockey is an international ice hockey tournament. Inaugurated in 1996 , it is the successor to the Canada Cup , which was held every three to five years from 1976 to 1991 and was the first international hockey championship to allow nations to field their top players. [ 1 ]
Canada would not win another world championship gold until 1994. [41] In 1962, the World Championships were held in North America for the first time. The tournament was held in Denver, United States, and was boycotted by the Soviet and Czechoslovak teams. Sweden defeated Canada for the first time in the history of the competition and won their ...
Canada is the leading national ice hockey team in international play, having won the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, a record four Canada Cups dating back to 1976, a record two World Cups of Hockey, a record nine Olympic gold medals, and a record 28 World Championship titles.
The Punch-up in Piestany was a bench-clearing brawl between Canada and the Soviet Union during the final game of the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) on January 4, 1987. The incident resulted in the ejection of both teams from the tournament, and while the Soviets had already been ...
Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season. The IIHF decision on Tuesday covers all world championships and ...
The gold medal-winning Winnipeg Falcons (representing Canada), pictured en route to the 1920 Olympics, which were counted as the first ice hockey World Championships IIHF World Championship Cup IIHF third place trophy. The Ice Hockey World Championships is an annual event held by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It was preceded ...
The United States won back-to-back gold medals for the first time and host Canada lost for the second year in a row in the quarterfinals. World juniors hockey winners, losers: USA wins gold ...