Canada national bandy team
The Canadian national bandy team is the bandy team representing Canada. The team is overseen by the Manitoba and Canadian Bandy Federations, members of the Federation of International Bandy. The team has competed in the annual Bandy World Championship several times starting in 1991.
In 2005, the team participated in the championship in Kazan, Russia, where they lost to the Belarus national bandy team for the "B" title.
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. For this Championship Canada's team included 4 players playing professionally in club teams in Sweden. Canada did not participate in the 2015 Bandy World Championship. There were reports about them returning to the 2016 WCS, which they in the end did not. However, the team participated in the 2017 World Championship, where they won the Gold Medal of the Division B tournament, qualifying for Division A in 2018. Still Canada will not participate in the 2018 WCS.
Canada is a country with a strong tradition for ice hockey and there are no artificial ices of regular bandy field size in Canada. At home, the team practices at ice hockey rinks and the team also go to the United States to practice on full-sized ice. They have continued to play the annual Can-Am Bandy Cup.Current squad
Canadian squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, 26 January – 2 February 2014.
