Team Canada

1976 Canada Cup

Team Roster
Front Row L to R - Gerry Cheevers, Rogatien Vachon, Bobby Orr, Bobby Clarke (captain), Keith Allen (general manager), Sam Pollock (managing director), Alan Eagleson (chairman, Canada Cup’76), Toe Blake (assistant managing director), Bobby Hull, Guy Lafleur, Glen "Chico" Resch, Dan Bouchard.

2nd Row - Denis Potvin, Guy Lapointe, Peter Mahovlich, Syl Apps Sr. (special advisor), Al MacNeil (coach), Don Cherry (coach), Scotty Bowman (coach), Bobby Kromm (coach), Jean Béliveau (special advisor), Gilbert Perreault, Serge Savard, Larry Robinson.

3nd Row - Lefty Wilson (trainer), Phil Esposito, Carol Vadnais, Darryl Sittler, Dave Burrows, Mike Cannon (business manager), Dr. Douglas G. Kinnear, Reggie Leach, Bill Barber, Paul Shmyr, Dan Maloney, Ed Palchak (trainer).

Top Row - Marcel Dionne, Danny Gare, Jean Pronovost, Jim Watson, Lanny McDonald, René Robert, Steve Shutt, Richard Martin, Bob Gainey.

The 1st Canada Cup (1976) included 6 teams - Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States.

The locations of games were at Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Quebec City, Quebec and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Team Canada results
September 2 at Ottawa Civic Centre 11-2 win vs Finland.
September 5 at Montreal Forum 4-2 win vs USA.
September 7 at Maple Leaf Gardens 4-0 win vs Sweden.
September 9 at Montreal Forum 1-0 loss vs Czechoslovakia.
September 11 at Maple Leaf Gardens 3-1 win vs Soviet Union.

Best of 3 final vs Czechoslovakia
September 13 at Maple Leaf Gardens 6-0 win vs Czech.
September 15 at Montreal Forum 5-4 OT win vs Czech.
Darryl Sittler scored the Canada Cup winning goal in OT.

Bobby Orr was named the Most Valuable Player / MVP of the tournament, and Viktor Zhluktov was the leading scorer (5 goals, 4 assists in 5 games).

Canada Cup All-Star Team - Rogatien Vachon, Bobby Orr, Börje Salming, Milan Nový, Darryl Sittler.