Team Canada Olympic Hockey – The Weight of the Maple Leaf
Team Canada Men’s Olympic Hockey – The Weight of the Maple Leaf
For more than a century, Canada’s men’s Olympic hockey team has carried a burden unlike any other in sport. Gold is not the dream. It is the expectation.
In this episode of Hall of Teams, host Kirk Jensen traces the full Olympic journey of Team Canada Men’s Hockey. From the era when amateur champions were sent overseas to defend national pride, through the shock of international rivals catching up, moments of protest and heartbreak, and into the unforgiving pressure of the modern NHL era.
This is the story of how Olympic hockey…
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