Team Canada 2018 Paralympic Ice Hockey preview and schedule

The PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games are here. The para ice hockey portion starts on Saturday, March 10, and runs for eight days, with the Bronze and Gold matches on Saturday, March 17 and Sunday, March 18, respectively. Because Team Canada won the Gold medal at the 2017 World Para Ice Hockey Championships A-Pool, it is seeded in Group A, which draws relatively weaker competition en route to the semifinal games.

The last time Team Canada went to the Paralypics, it won the Bronze in Sochi. Ten players who were on the Bronze-medal team are back to play this year, and all except one were on the Gold-medal team that won the A-Pool in 2017. Canada has not won Paralympic Gold since 2006,…