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unusual facts about Team Canada



2004 TNA America's X Cup Tournament

America's X Cup Tournament consisted of four Teams: Team USA (representing the National Wrestling Alliance/Total Nonstop Action Wrestling), Team Canada, Team Mexico (representing Asistencia Asesoría y Administración), and Team Britain.

2008 TNA World X Cup Tournament

Also announced was the teams in the tournament: The returning Team TNA (The renamed Team USA), the returning Team Mexico, the returning Team Japan, and the debuting Team International (to take the place of Team Canada and Team Britain).

Bryan Dumesnil

Dumesnil was a member of Team Canada during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, although he did not enter either of Canada's two games during the preliminary stage of the tournament at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada.

London Rollergirls

The London Rollergirls held their first British inter-league bout in March 2008 against the Glasgow Rollergirls' travel team, The Irn Bruisers, and their first international bout in June 2008 against Team Canada, a Canadian team made up of members from Toronto Roller Derby, Oil City Derby Girls (Edmonton), Terminal City Roller Girls (Vancouver), Calgary Roller Derby Association, and Saskatoon Roller Derby.

Maxime Talbot

He also helped team Team Canada win a silver medal as an alternate captain in the 2004 World Junior Championships in Helsinki.

Nick Weglarz

Nick was also a part of Team Canada's baseball team in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where he hit .400 in the preliminaries, and .450 in the Olympic qualifier against Taiwan.

SaPKo

Later bigger success came in the season 1994/1995 when SaPKo had very good regular season with players like Team Canada captain Brian Tutt and was close to promotion to the SM-liiga.

T. J. Brodie

He averaged over 20 minutes of ice time per game and earned an invitation to join Team Canada at the 2013 IIHF World Championship.

Zach Parise

Parise's father, J. P. Parisé, was a professional ice hockey player who played for Team Canada at the 1972 Summit Series, and his brother Jordan Parise is a professional hockey goaltender.


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2010–11 Calgary Flames season

While several players were invited to participate in the 2011 IIHF World Championship, Jarome Iginla, Jay Bouwmeester, Mark Giordano, Curtis Glencross and Alex Tanguay all turned down invitations to play for Team Canada for various reasons.

49th Parallel Cup

The Revolution narrowly defeated Team Canada (Northwind).

Brett Gallant

At the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships, Gallant represented team Canada, and after placing first after the round robin, lost in the final to Denmark's Rasmus Stjerne rink.

Cassandra Poudrier

On October 3, 2011, she was named to the Team Canada roster that will participate in the 2011 4 Nations Cup.

Centre Mario Gosselin

It was first called the Centre des Loisirs but, in the middle of the 80's, it was renamed for NHL and Team Canada goalie Mario Gosselin, who was born in Thetford Mines and helped Canada finish fourth at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Danielle Lawrie

Her younger brother, Brett, a major league baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays, began playing with the Canadian national junior team at the age of 15, and played for Team Canada in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Devan Dubnyk

After an overtime loss by Team Canada to Adler Mannheim in their tournament debut, Dubnyk started the next match against HC Davos.

Dougie Hamilton

His parents Doug and Lynn were both members of Team Canada for the 1984 Summer Olympics (in rowing and basketball, respectively).

Freddie Hamilton

Freddie was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario to Doug Hamilton and Lynn Hamilton (née Polson), both members of Team Canada for the 1984 Summer Olympics (rowing and basketball, respectively).

Gary Gait

In that final year, he led Team Canada to a historic 15-10 victory over the United States in the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship, his last ever international game.

Hayley Wickenheiser

In 1995, Wickenheiser was a member of Team Canada at the World Junior Fastball Championships, held in Normal, Illinois.

Kirk Furey

In 2001, Furey helped Team Canada win silver at the 2001 Winter Universiade in Zakopane, Poland.

Laura Stacey

Her uncle, Terry Clancy played for Team Canada at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria.

Mark Teahen

Prior to the 2009 World Baseball Classic, Teahen, whose father was born in St. Marys, Ontario, became a naturalized Canadian citizen and played for Team Canada in that event.

Michael Henrich

In 2003 he was selected to represent Team Canada again at the Sweden Hockey Games in Stockholm, Sweden, where Canada placed third.

Nick Spaling

Spaling was selected for Team Canada's junior training camp for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, but he was forced to return home early as he had been diagnosed with mononucleosis.

North Park Secondary School

Cassie Campbell, former Team Canada Women's Ice Hockey captain, current anchor on Hockey Night in Canada on CBC.

Red Deer Rebels

President, and owner Brent Sutter was also highly successful while serving as Team Canada's coach at both the 2005 and 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships.

Ryan Garlock

Still, he was selected to play in the 2004 CHL Top Prospects Game and to play for Team Canada at the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships, in Minsk.

Scott D'Amore

The propensity of the TNA character of "Coach D'Amore" to interfere on Team Canada's behalf led to commentator Mike Tenay often referring to him as a "big fat load" and "Canadian bacon".

Scott Koskie

He was named Best Setter at the 2005 NORCECA Championship in Winnipeg, where Team Canada ended up in third place.

Severn, Ontario

Glenn Howard - Curler for Team Ontario, 2007 Brier Winner, and 2007 World Curling Champion for Team Canada

The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia

MMA fighter and four-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Vitor Ribeiro is invited as a guest coach for team Canada and does a special session with the fighters.

The Un-Americans

As indicated by the name, the Anti-Americans differed from previous incarnations of Team Canada in that they were anti-American rather than pro-Canadian.

Tom Pyatt

The next year, he returned to Team Canada for the 2007 World Junior Championships in Leksand.