The nation would bounce back to win gold in 1942 and 1952 — the 1940 Games were cancelled by World War II — before enduring a 50-year drought \u2013 12 Olympics — until its return to the gold medal podium at Salt Lake City in 2002, two more gold medals to come in 2010 in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi, Russia.<\/p>\n
All except 1920\u2019s historic curtain-raising tournament have been played under the Olympic Winter Games banner, as will every one in the future.<\/p>\n
In Milano Cortina this month, Canada aims for a natural hat trick at Olympics involving NHL players, victories in 2010 and 2014 having set the table for another best-on-best tournament to be played in a megawatt global spotlight.<\/p>\n
Four players from the Winnipeg Jets will fly the city\u2019s flag, representing three nations a century-plus after the Falcons made history nearly 600 miles north in Antwerp: defenseman Josh Morrissey<\/a> for Canada, goalie Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> and forward Kyle Connor<\/a> for the U.S. and forward Nino Niederreiter<\/a> for Switzerland.<\/p>\n In spirit, at least, the 1920 Falcons have lived to see the Olympic Winter Games again.<\/p>\n Top photo: The 1920 Olympic-champion Winnipeg Falcons, representing Canada at the VIIth Olympiade in Antwerp, Belgium. From left: Gordon Sigurjonsson, coach; Herb Axford, club president; Wally Byron, goalie; Haldor \u201cSlim\u201d Halderson, right wing; Frank Frederickson, centre and captain; William Hewitt, Canadian Olympic representative and team secretary; Konrad Johannesson, right defense; Mike Goodman, left wing; Allan \u201cHuck\u201d Woodman, substitute; Bobby Benson, left defense; Chris Fridfinnson, rover; Bill Fridfinnson, official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nation would bounce back to win gold in 1942 and 1952 — the 1940 Games were cancelled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-450000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116027991128009746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}