Buffalo 2015: Canada preview

Greg Westlake will lead the team having captained Canada at the last two World Championships and steered them to bronze at Sochi 2014.

Outlook

Canada enter the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool as the defending world champions, having beaten the USA 1-0 to take gold in Goyang, South Korea, in 2013.

Twelve of the 17 players remain from that winning team including Tyler McGregor, who made his debut in 2013 and now enters Buffalo 2015 as one of the alternate captains alongside Brad Bowden.

Greg Westlake will lead the team having captained Canada at the last two World Championships and steered them to bronze at Sochi 2014.

Ken Babey replaces Mike Mondin on the sidelines, as four players make their debuts (Cederstrand, Delaney, Sholomicki and Sorley).

 

Key players

Brad Bowden (forward); Greg Westlake (forward)

 

Head coach

Ken Babey

 

World Championship A-Pool medals

 

Gold (2000, 2008, 2013); Bronze (1996, 2009, 2012)

 

Paralympic medals

 

Gold (2006); Silver (1998); Bronze (1994, 2014)

 

Team roster

Larocque, Dominic (G)

Whitson, Derek (D)

Rempel, Kevin (D)

Dorion, Marc (F)

McGregor, Tyler (F)

Delaney, Ben (F)

Dixon, Adam (D)

Westlake, Greg (F)

Arsenault, Steve (D)

Sorley, Kevin (F)

Bridges, Billy (F)

Sholomicki, Bryan (F)

Cederstrand, Chris (F)

Block, Kieran (F)

Gemmell, James (D)

Bowden, Brad (F)

Watson, Corbin (G)

 

All team previews for the Buffalo 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships can be found here.

Buffalo 2015 will be shown live at Buffalo2015.com from 26 April, and tickets are still available.