Team North America

The term Team North America is used in a number of sports to designate a unified team of North American countries in several sports competitions and sports tournaments.

Competitions featuring a North American team

Competition Teams Sport Contributing regions Notes
2016 Team Challenge Cup Figure skating The inaugural ISU Team Challenge Cup features Team North America against Team Europe and Team Asia [1]
2016 World Cup of Hockey 2016 Ice hockey  Canada +  USA Under-23 players, coached by Todd McLellan [2]
Continental Cup of Curling Curling  Canada +  USA Team North America against Team World and Team Europe
National Hockey League All-Star Game 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Ice hockey  Canada +  USA

From 1998 to 2002, the game featured Team North America versus Team World

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Note that in the above sports there also exist national teams taking part in other competitions

References

  1. Philip Hersh (25 October 2015). "Skate second comings: Max Aaron as Elvis Stojko, Jason Brown as Paul Wylie?". Chicago Tribune.
  2. "Team North America roster projection for World Cup". NHL. 14 September 2015.
  3. Dave Stevenson (23 January 2015). "NHL All Star Game: North America Vs. The World". Fansided. Sports Illustrated.
  4. Joe Lapointe (19 January 1998). "HOCKEY; North America All-Stars Conquer World". New York Times.

See also

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