FN, The Canadian women's team won gold in the last four Olympics. The Canadian men's team has won gold in three out of the last four Olympics.
Then there also are the world championship's, etc etc that I do not follow but in which Canadians win or finish high in the rankings. As you can imagine, to get into such a team you have to be the creme de la creme. Scouts look for, find and groom kids starting from age six and older. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky Competition is fierce. If you want your child to play for Canada, you have to get him/her into a program that primes hockey players around the same time you think of sending your child to kindergarten. If your kid is accepted into such a program, you wake up at 4.30 am so as to arrive at the community center for the 5.30 am coaching/practice. The (slightly) older players start their coaching programs at 6.30 am. Then they go to school. These programs are not free. In addition, equipment runs into the thousands of dollars. There are 30 professional NHL teams in N. America and each team has 20 players. Do the math. It is much easier to become a brain surgeon in N. America than to become a professional hockey player. To answer your question though, I know of only one person of Goan origin who plays professional hockey. It is about as easy for a Goan to get into the Canadian hockey team as it is for a Goan to get into the Indian cricket team. Mervyn BTW, here are the official results of the Winter Olympics. Canada won a medal for every 1.4 million residents. To put this into perspective, it is the same feeling you would get if India returned from an Olympics with 884 medals. Total 1 Russia 13 11 9 33 2 Norway 11 5 10 26 3 Canada 10 10 5 25 From: Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> >Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:57:18 PM >Subject: [Goanet] Ice-hockey? > > >In terms of evolution, was wondering whether Goenkars or Africander-Goans >could make it to, say, the ice-hockey national team of Canada. > >Does it happen? > > >