Team Canada Alumni Association Winter 2015 Newsletter Table of Contents Gone, but not forgotten Remembering Team Canada alumni .....................2 Alumni called to the Hall in B.C. Andrews, Fraser, Matthews and Niedermayer earn induction into B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame ........3 ‘V’ is for victory 60 years ago, the Penticton Vees brought IIHF World Championship gold back to Canada .....................4 Taking a look back Three gold medals highlight Team Canada’s recent international action................................5 Coming together again As the 2015 World Juniors hit the medal round, members of two past gold-medal-winning teams were recognized ..............................................8 Moving on After decorated international careers, four Team Canada alumni have stepped away from the game ..9 Where are they now? Bernie Nicholls The Team Canada alumnus has kept his hands in hockey, on and off the ice ...................11 Canada’s National Junior Team watches the Canadian flag raised at the Air A party 100 years in the making Canada Centre after its 5-4 win over Russia in the gold medal game at the Hockey Canada celebrated its centennial 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship. with a gala in Ottawa .....................................12 Cederstrand’s second chance After a construction accident took his leg, Message from Gord Sherven Chris Cederstrand found sledge hockey, and found Chair of the Team Canada Alumni Association Advisory Committee his way to Canada’s National Sledge Team ..........13 Welcome to your 2015 Team Canada Alumni Association Winter Newsletter. Publisher: Hockey Canada I recently attended the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship in Toronto, where Chris Bright Contributors:, Chris Bright, Norm Dueck, Gord (executive director of the Hockey Canada Foundation), Norm Dueck and I hosted more than 25 Sherven, Hockey Canada Communications (David players from Canada’s gold medal-winning 1993 and 1994 National Junior Teams. Brien, Wendy Graves, Jason LaRose) It was great to meet so many former players, and get to see them reconnect and relive their gold Alumni Advisory Committee: David Andrews, Chris medal wins. Adrian Aucoin, Jason Allison, Marty Murray, Jamie Storr, Anson Carter, Jason Botterill and Bright, Norm Dueck, Mike Murray, Terry O’Malley, Tom head coach Jos Canale were just a few that were there. Renney, Gord Sherven, Ryan Walter What a thrill it was, as well, to watch Canada’s National Junior Team bring gold back to Canada, Alumni Administration: Norm Dueck with a tremendous victory over Russia in the gold medal game on home ice! The Hockey Canada family recently lost a number of legends, and our thoughts and prayers go out Photos: Richard Wolowicz, Jeff Vinnick/ to the families of Jean Béliveau, Pat Quinn, J.P. Parise and Seth Martin. HHOF - IIHF Images ❚ Included in this newsletter are articles on Hockey Canada’s 100th Anniversary celebration, alumni Bernie Nicholls and a great heritage piece on the 1955 world champions, the Penticton Vees. Enjoy! Where We Want To Be – Team Canada Alumni – Coming We currently have contact with over 2,400 alumni. The Team Canada Alumni Association was Together, Reaching Out. founded to help connect alumni with former teammates and offer alumni opportunities to help Why We Want To Go There – To engage, encourage Hockey Canada grow the game and make the best sport in the world accessible to all Canadians. and enable Team Canada alumni to maintain a lifelong If you have not already registered (at no cost), please contact Norm Dueck, who oversees the relationship with Hockey Canada and our game. alumni association’s activities, at [email protected]. We want to be sure that we have Who We Will Be Along the Way – We are committed to honouring Canada’s international hockey heritage, updated email addresses, mailing addresses, and phone numbers of all of our alumni, so invites assisting with the growth of Canadian hockey and the can be sent for future alumni events across the country! pursuit of international hockey excellence for Canada, while providing an opportunity for our alumni to recon- Thank you, nect and celebrate the game and their experiences. Gord Sherven These objectives will be within a spirit of teamwork, Chair, TCAA Advisory Committee ❚ inclusion, integrity and service. ❚ Gone, but not forgotten Remembering Team Canada alumni by Jason La Rose Seth Martin Pat Quinn Jean Béliveau J.P. Parise (May 4, 1933 – (January 29, 1943 – (August 31, 1931 – (December 11, 1941 – September 6, 2014) November 23, 2014) December 2, 2014) January 7, 2015) Martin was a mainstay with Team Quinn stood behind a Team Béliveau was one of the first five Parise represented Canada only Canada during the 1960s, appearing Canada bench on seven occasions, Distinguished Honourees of the once, but it was a memorable appear- in four IIHF World Championships and worked as a general manager Order of Hockey in Canada in 2012, ance; he played in six of the eight and one Olympic Winter Games; the or assistant general manager on four and was the honorary captain of games in the 1972 Summit Series, goaltender led the Trail Smoke Eaters others, helping Canada to five medals Canada’s gold medal-winning Men’s recording two goals and two assists to a gold medal at the 1961 worlds and a World Cup championship. Olympic Team at the 2010 Olympic while skating on a line with Phil – the last amateur team to win gold He was Canada’s head coach at Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C. Esposito and Wayne Cashman. for Canada – and earned bronze with the 1986 IIHF World Championship He spent parts of 20 seasons with He played 890 NHL games with Canada’s National Men’s Team in (bronze), 2002 Olympic Winter the Montreal Canadiens from 1950- Boston, Toronto, Minnesota, the 1966 and 1967. Games (gold), 2004 World Cup of 71, cementing his place as not only New York Islanders and Cleveland Martin’s importance to Team Hockey (first place), 2006 Olympic one of the greatest Canadiens ever, from 1965-79, finishing his career Canada was evident with one glance Winter Games (sixth place), 2006 but as one of the greatest players the with 594 points (238 goals and 356 at his trophy case; in the five major Spengler Cup (second place), 2008 game has ever seen. assists), along with 58 points (27 international tournaments he played, IIHF World U18 Championship A 10-time Stanley Cup champion goals, 31 assists) in 86 playoff games. he was named Top Goaltender at (gold) and 2009 IIHF World Junior as a player (he added seven more as He was a driving force behind the four of them: the 1961, 1963 and Championship (gold). an executive with the Canadiens), success of the Shattuck-St. Mary’s 1966 worlds, and 1964 Olympics. Quinn was an NHL head coach Béliveau averaged more than a point School program in Faribault, Minn., He was inducted into the for parts of 20 seasons with the a game during his career, scoring 507 serving as a coach and director International Ice Hockey Federation Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles goals and adding 712 assists for 1,219 of hockey, and helped develop Hall of Fame in 1997. ❚ Kings, Vancouver Canucks, Toronto points in 1,125 games. He was a two- players like Sidney Crosby and Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers, time winner of the Hart Trophy as Jonathan Toews. ❚ winning the Jack Adams Award as NHL MVP, won the Art Ross Trophy NHL coach of the year in 1979-80 as the league’s top scorer, and was with the Flyers and 1991-92 with the very first recipient of the Conn the Canucks. He sits sixth all-time Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. ❚ in NHL history with 684 wins (in 1,400 games). ❚ Team Canada Alumni Association – Newsletter – Winter 2015 HockeyCanada.ca/HCF 2 Alumni called to the Hall in B.C. Andrews, Fraser, Matthews and Niedermayer earn induction into B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame by Jason La Rose David Andrews Curt Fraser Allan Matthews Rob Niedermayer The B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2015 on Jan. 27, and David Andrews and Allan Matthews, both of whom have already been four men with ties to Hockey Canada will be inducted this summer – two for inducted as builders, were part of the staff of British Columbia’s gold medal- their individual contributions, and two as part of a team. winning men’s hockey team at the 1979 Canada Winter Games, which is being Curt Fraser, who won bronze with Canada at the 1978 IIHF World Junior inducted in the team category. Championship, and Rob Niedermayer, a two-time gold medallist (1993 IIHF Both have had long relationships with Hockey Canada, and both continue World Junior Championship and 2004 IIHF World Championship) will be to have a role in the growth and development of the game; Andrews is vice- enshrined as players. chair of the Canadian Hockey Foundation U.S., while Matthews is treasurer of Niedermayer will go into the B.C. HHOF alongside older brother – and the Hockey Canada Foundation and a former chairman of the Hockey Canada fellow Team Canada alumnus – Scott, who was inducted in 2012. The Board of Directors. brothers won gold together at the 2004 worlds in the Czech Republic. The four men will be inducted July 24 in Penticton, B.C., along with the rest of the 1979 CWG team, former Canucks captain Markus Naslund, and longtime minor hockey volunteer Cam Kerr. ❚ Team Canada Alumni Association – Newsletter – Winter 2015 HockeyCanada.ca/HCF 3 ‘V’ is for victory 60 years ago, the Penticton Vees brought IIHF World Championship gold back to Canada NOTE: The following is a chapter from “Canada on Ice” by Dave Holland It is one of the great ironies in international hockey that the Penticton Interest in the Vees heightened throughout the tournament, fueled by Vees were named after three types of peaches: the veteran, the valiant and the extensive coverage in Canadian media.