List of Canada national ice hockey team captains explained

This is a list of captains of various ice hockey teams which have represented Canada in international play.

Summit Series team captains

1972 None
1974 Pat Stapleton

Canada Cup team captains

1976 Bobby Clarke
1981 Denis Potvin
1984 Wayne Gretzky and Larry Robinson (co-captains)
1987 Wayne Gretzky
1991 Wayne Gretzky

World Cup of Hockey team captains

1996 Wayne Gretzky
2004 Mario Lemieux
2016 Sidney Crosby

Winter Olympics men's & women's team captains

Men's

Women's

IIHF Canada men's national ice hockey team captains

Note: The Ice Hockey World Championships were not held in Winter Olympic years prior to 1972 (no tournaments in 1980, 1984, and 1988). Until 1968, the Olympic Ice Hockey champions were considered the Ice Hockey World champions for that year.

1930 Howard Armstrong
1931 Gord MacKenzie
1933 - 1939 None
1949 - 1950 None
1951 Hector Negrello
1954 Tom Campbell
1955 George McAvoy
1958 Harry Sinden
1959 - 1965 None
1966 Terry O'Malley
1967 Roger Bourbonnais
1969 None
1977 Phil Esposito
1978 Marcel Dionne
1979 Guy Charron
1981 Lanny McDonald
1982 Bobby Clarke
1983 Darryl Sittler
1985 Dave Taylor
1986 Marcel Dionne
1987 Mike Foligno
1989 Steve Yzerman
1990 Paul Coffey
1991 Doug Lidster
1992 Glenn Anderson
1993 Adam Graves
1994 Luc Robitaille
1995 Brian Tutt
1996 Steve Thomas
1997 Dean Evason
1998 Keith Primeau
1999 Rob Blake
2000 Mike Sillinger
2001 Michael Peca* and Ryan Smyth
2002 - 2005 Ryan Smyth
2006 Brendan Shanahan
2007 - 2009 Shane Doan
2010 Ryan Smyth* and Ray Whitney
2011 Rick Nash
2012 Ryan Getzlaf
2013 Eric Staal
2014 Kevin Bieksa
2015 Sidney Crosby
2016 Corey Perry
2017 Claude Giroux
2018 Connor McDavid
2019 Kyle Turris
2021 Adam Henrique
2022 Thomas Chabot
2023 Tyler Toffoli
2024 John Tavares

Note: Michael Peca was injured (missed the rest of the tournament); Ryan Smyth replaced him as captain.

Note: Ryan Smyth was injured (missed the rest of the tournament); Ray Whitney replaced him as captain.

IIHF Canada women's national ice hockey team captains

Note: The IIHF World Women's Championships tournament was not held in Winter Olympic years until 2022. Regional championships were held in 1995 and 1996, and the 3/4 Nations Cup has been held yearly since 1996.

1990 Sue Scherer
1992, 1994 France St. Louis
1995 - 1998 Stacy Wilson
1999 - 2001 Thérèse Brisson
2002 - 2006 Cassie Campbell
2007 - 2013 Hayley Wickenheiser
2014 Caroline Ouellette
2015 - present Marie-Philip Poulin

World Junior (U-20) championships

Note: The first three tournaments (1974–76) are unofficial. The first official tournament was held in 1977.

1974 Doug Jarvis
1976 Fern LeBlanc
1977 Dale McCourt
1978 Ryan Walter
1979 John-Paul Kelly
1980 Rick Lanz, Dave Fenyves
1981 Marc Crawford
1982 Troy Murray
1983 James Patrick
1984 Russ Courtnall
1985 Dan Hodgson
1986 Jim Sandlak
1987 Steve Chiasson
1988 Theoren Fleury
1989 Éric Desjardins
1990 Dave Chyzowski
1991 Steven Rice
1992 Eric Lindros
1993 Martin Lapointe
1994 Brent Tully
1995 Todd Harvey
1996 Nolan Baumgartner
1997 Brad Larsen
1998 Cory Sarich, Jesse Wallin
1999 Mike Van Ryn
2000 Manny Malhotra
2001 Steve McCarthy
2002 Jarret Stoll
2003 Scottie Upshall
2004 Dan Paille
2005 Mike Richards
2006 Kyle Chipchura
2007 Kris Letang
2008 Karl Alzner
2009 Thomas Hickey
2010 Patrice Cormier
2011 Ryan Ellis
2012 Jaden Schwartz
2013 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
2014 Scott Laughton
2015 Curtis Lazar
2016 Brayden Point
2017 Dylan Strome
2018 Dillon Dubé
2019 Maxime Comtois
2020 Barrett Hayton
2021 Kirby Dach*, Dylan Cozens and Bowen Byram
2022 Kaiden Guhle (winter), Mason McTavish (summer)
2023 Shane Wright
2024 Fraser Minten

Note: Kirby Dach was injured (missing the entire tournament), Dylan Cozens and Bowen Byram replaced him as captain.

World U18 championships

2002 André Benoit
2003 Braydon Coburn
2004 John Lammers
2005 Ryan Parent
2006 Ty Wishart
2007 Angelo Esposito
2008 Cody Hodgson
2009 Ryan O'Reilly
2010 Erik Gudbranson
2011 Ryan Murray
2012 Matt Dumba
2013 Sam Reinhart
2014 Roland McKeown
2015 Mitchell Stephens
2016 Tyson Jost
2017 Jaret Anderson-Dolan
2018 Ty Smith
2019 Peyton Krebs
2021 Shane Wright
2022 Connor Bedard
2023 Cameron Allen
2024 Porter Martone