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| Badge: | Team Canada Bandy 1991.jpg |
| Caption: | Team Canada (1991) World bandy debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship |
| Badge Size: | 200 |
| Association: | Canada Bandy |
| Coach: | Göran Svensson |
| First Game: | 10–0 (Porvoo, Finland; 17 March 1991) |
| Largest Win: | 18–0 (Kazan, Russia; 1 February 2005) |
| Largest Loss: | 22–1 (Irkutsk, Russia; 30 January 2014) |
| World Champ2 Name: | Bandy World Championship |
| World Champ2 Apps: | 15 |
| World Champ2 First: | 1991 |
| World Champ2 Best: | 6th (1991, 1993) |
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|-6th overall
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6th|-The Canada national bandy team (French: Équipe nationale de bandy du Canada) refers to the bandy teams representing Canada. Presently only the national men's senior team competes. There is the men's national team and the women's national team. The teams are overseen by Canada Bandy[1] (previously the Manitoba Bandy Federation) which is a member of the Federation of International Bandy (FIB). This article deals chiefly with the national men's team. For the women's team please see Canada women's national bandy team.
Bandy was first introduced to Canada in the city of Winnipeg in 1986.[2] The initial organizations for bandy in Canada were called the "Bandy Federation of Manitoba" and "Canada Bandy Association/Federation". The men compete in the Bandy World Championship. Canada's national men's bandy team made their world debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship.
While Canada is a country with a strong tradition in ice hockey and ringette, both sports are played on an ice rink and Canada does not have artificial ice rinks large enough to qualify as regulation-sized bandy fields. As a result, Canada's national men's team practices at home on ice hockey rinks or other substitute surfaces.[3] In the past, the Canadian women's bandy team practiced on a frozen water hazard on a Winnipeg golf course. Team Canada occasionally goes to the United States to practice in areas where full-sized bandy fields exist.[4]
The Canadian team also continues to play in the annual Can-Am Bandy Cup.[5]
While early forms of what is now called "bandy" have been recorded to have been played in Canada as far back as the 1850s after having been introduced by British soldiers, Canada did not form a national bandy team until the 1980s. The game was initially called "hockey on the ice". However, the sport of ice hockey, (which used the smaller ice rinks and pucks rather than the larger bandy fields) and a bandy ball, organized in Canada in 1875, absorbing bandy sports in the process and resulting in bandy's disappearance from North America. The sport did however formalize in England at the same time when ice hockey was being formalized in Canada. The first Team Canada for bandy was the Canadian men's national bandy team in 1991.
The men's team has competed in the annual Bandy World Championship several times starting in 1991.
| Tournament | Final standing | |
|---|---|---|
| Finished in 6th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 6th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 7th place (3rd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 7th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| did not participate | ||
| did not participate | ||
| did not participate | ||
| Finished in 9th place (4th in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| did not participate | ||
| Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Russia 2010[6] | Finished in 7th place (1st in Group B, lost qualification to Group A in 2011) | |
| Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 8th place (2nd in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 8th place (last in Division A) | ||
| did not participate | ||
| did not participate | ||
| Finished in 9th place (1st in group B, moving up to group A) | ||
| did not participate | ||
| Finished in 14th place (6th in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 14th place (6th in Group B) | ||
| Finished in 14th place (6th in Group B) |
The senior Team Canada squad made its world debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship, in the championship in Helsinki, Finland.
The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1993 Bandy World Championship in Norway.
The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1995 Bandy World Championship in the United States.
The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1997 Bandy World Championship in Sweden.
The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 1999 Bandy World Championship.
The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2001 Bandy World Championship.
The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2003 Bandy World Championship.
The senior Team Canada squad competed in the 2005 in Kazan, Russia, where they lost to the Belarus national bandy team for the "B" title.[7]
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.[8] For this Championship Canada's team included 4 players playing professionally in club teams in Sweden.[9]
The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 2012 Bandy World Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 2014 Bandy World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, 26 January – 2 February 2014.[10]
| width=40 | Pos. | width=40 | Age | width=200 | Name | width=200 | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | GK | align=center | Brian Bell |  Winnipeg | |||
| align=center | GK | align=center | 29 | Ronnie Lintic | Nature Boys | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 47 | Costa Cholakis | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 25 | Chris Karasewich | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 28 | Jeremy Ross | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 25 | Drew Ellement | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 25 | Brady Fisher | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 29 | Brett Gavrailoff | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 25 | Curtis Krul | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 25 | Jeff Krul | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 27 | John Murray | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 25 | Brandon Ellement | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 25 | Colin Hekle | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 27 | Steve Landerville | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 28 | Nick Mazurak | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 28 | Brook Robson | Winnipeg | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 24 | Brendon Sedo | Blue Jeys |
The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2015 Bandy World Championship. There were reports about them returning to the tournament for the 2016 Bandy World Championship (2016 WCS), but in the end they did not.[11] [12]
The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2016 Bandy World Championship.
The senior Team Canada squad participated in the 2017 Bandy World Championship,[13] where they won the Gold Medal of the Division B tournament,[14] [15] qualifying for Division A in 2018.
The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2018 Bandy World Championship.[16]
The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2020 Bandy World Championship.
The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2022 Bandy World Championship.
