Team OHL vs. Russian Selects.
The MasterCard Canada- Russia Series[1] is an annual six game exhibition ice hockey tournament held between a select team of Russian junior players and all-star teams representing the three leagues of the Canadian Hockey League. The current corporate sponsor is MasterCard. The event was first held in 2003 as the RE/MAX Canada-Russia Challenge. From 2004 until 2008 it was known as the ADT Canada-Russia Challenge. The CHL holds a commanding lead in the overall series.
The Russian Selects play two games each hosted by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League and the Western Hockey League. All games are broadcast nationally in Canada on Sportsnet. The series features many players, also on the Canadian National junior team.[2]
2003 RE/MAX Canada-Russia Challenge
Inaugurated in 2003, the tournament was envisioned as tune-up for the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. The first series was won by the CHL five games to one in a series of blowout victories for the home squads. Following the tournament, the Russians were criticized for bringing over a team that was uncompetitive, as the Russian team kept many of its top junior players at home.
2004 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge
Prior to the second tournament, the Russians vowed to avenge their lopsided defeats in 2003. They started off well, defeating the QMJHL in both games by identical 4-3 scores, both via shoot-out. However, the Russians were once again unable to compete with either the OHL or WHL, losing the overall series four games to two.
2005 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge
The third challenge series saw the CHL dominate the series six games to zero as a travel weary Russian squad found itself consistently overmatched by its Canadian counterparts.
2006 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge
In the first game, the QMJHL cruised to an easy 6-2 victory. The Q followed that up with a 4-3 victory. Goaltender Ilia Proskuryakov was named the game star in both games for the overmatched Russians who were outshot 82-34 in the first two games. The OHL continued the CHL's dominance with an easy 5-0 victory in the third game.
The fourth game was a much more spirited affair, and while the OHL came out on top for the CHL's fourth consecutive victory, the Russians made a game of it in a close 4-3 final. The game was marred by two ugly incidents late, as both the OHL's Chris Stewart and Russia's Andrey Lange were assessed match penalties in the final minute of the game.
The Russians entered game five with only 14 skaters, and while badly outshot, managed to make a close and entertaining game of it before falling to the WHL 5-3. Game six would prove an entirely different story, as a Brodie Dupont hat trick led the WHL to an 8-1 victory. The CHL swept the series for the second year in a row.
2007 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge
The Russians started off the challenge by ending the CHL's 16-game winning streak that began in game three of 2004, defeating the QMJHL squad 6-4.
The OHL squad remained undefeated against the Russian Selects, going to 10 wins and no losses overall for the five years the challenge has run.
The WHL suffered their first ever loss to the Russians in game five, but came back in game six to clinch the series for the CHL.
2008 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge
2009 Subway Super Series
2010 Subway Super Series
For the first time in the history of the Super Series tournament, Russia ended up as the winners after winning four of the six games. Russia lost their two games against the OHL all-stars, and the OHL remains unbeaten in this tournament. The two leading scorers for Team Russia were Maxim Kitsyn with four goals and two assists and Nikita Dvurechensky with two goals and four assists.
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Loser |
| November 8, 2010 | Saint John, New Brunswick | Russian Selects | 5 | 4 | QMJHL all-stars |
| November 10, 2010 | Drummondville, Quebec | Russian Selects | 4 | 3 | QMJHL all-stars |
| November 11, 2010 | London, Ontario | OHL all-stars | 4 | 0 | Russian Selects |
| November 15, 2010 | Sudbury, Ontario | OHL all-stars | 2 | 1 | Russian Selects |
| November 17, 2010 | Kamloops, British Columbia | Russian Selects | 7 | 6 | WHL all-stars | SO (3:1) |
| November 18, 2010 | Prince George, British Columbia | Russian Selects | 5 | 2 | WHL all-stars |
| Russia wins series 4-2 (22-21 RUS) |
2011 Subway Super Series
Russia won three of the games of the 2011 Super Series, but since Russia's victory in the second game against the QMJHL[3] came in a shootout they were awarded two points for that victory (as opposed to three points for a win in regulation) while the QMJHL got one point. This in combination with three regulation wins for the other CHL teams led to another series win by the CHL.[4] The OHL would remain unbeaten, although at one point in the first game against the OHL, Russia led by a score of 6-4.[5] The two highest scorers of the series would be Nikita Kucherov with four goals and three assists and Nikita Gusev with three goals and four assists.
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Loser |
| November 7, 2011 | Victoriaville, Quebec | Russian Selects | 2 | 0 | QMJHL all-stars |
| November 9, 2011[3] | Quebec City, Quebec | Russian Selects | 5 | 4 | QMJHL all-stars | SO (2:1) |
| November 10, 2011 | Ottawa, Ontario | OHL all-stars | 10 | 7 | Russian Selects |
| November 14, 2011 | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario | OHL all-stars | 6 | 3 | Russian Selects |
| November 16, 2011 | Regina, Saskatchewan | WHL all-stars | 5 | 2 | Russian Selects |
| November 17, 2011 | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan | Russian Selects | 7 | 5 | WHL all-stars |
| CHL wins 10 points to 8 (30-26 CHL) |
2012 Subway Super Series
Russia ended an 18-game losing streak by defeating Team OHL on November 8.[6] Since Russia won three games in regulation and the WHL all-stars won one game in a shootout, Russia won the 2012 tournament by 10-8 in points.[7]
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Loser |
| November 5, 2012 | Boisbriand, Quebec | Russian Selects | 6 | 2 | QMJHL all-stars |
| November 7, 2012 | Val-d'Or, Quebec | QMJHL all-stars | 5 | 2 | Russian Selects |
| November 8, 2012[6] | Guelph, Ontario | Russian Selects | 2 | 1 | OHL all-stars |
| November 12, 2012 | Sarnia, Ontario | OHL all-stars | 2 | 1 | Russian Selects |
| November 14, 2012 | Vancouver, British Columbia | WHL all-stars | 1 | 0 | Russian Selects | SO (3:0) |
| November 15, 2012 | Victoria, British Columbia | Russian Selects | 5 | 2 | WHL all-stars |
| Russia wins 10 points to 8 (16-13 RUS) |
2013 Subway Super Series
On June 5, the 2013 schedule was released.[8] Canada wins based on 3-point system, Canada had three wins, two losses, and an overtime loss for 10 points, while Russia had two wins, an overtime win, and three losses for 8 points.
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Loser |
| November 18, 2013 | Gatineau, Quebec | QMJHL all-stars | 3 | 2 | Russian Selects |
| November 20, 2013 | Sherbrooke, Quebec | QMJHL all-stars | 4 | 3 | Russian Selects |
| November 21, 2013 | Oshawa, Ontario | Russian Selects | 5 | 2 | OHL all-stars |
| November 25, 2013 | Sudbury, Ontario | Russian Selects | 3 | 2 | OHL all-stars | SO (2:1) |
| November 27, 2013 | Red Deer, Alberta | Russian Selects | 3 | 2 | WHL all-stars |
| November 28, 2013 | Lethbridge, Alberta | WHL all-stars | 4 | 2 | Russian Selects |
| CHL wins 10 points to 8 (18-17 RUS) |
2014 Subway Super Series
Russia wins based on 3-point system, Russia had three wins, two losses, and an overtime win for 11 points, while Canada had two wins, three losses, and an overtime loss for 7 points.
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Loser |
| November 10, 2014 | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | Russian Selects | 3 | 2 | WHL all-stars | SO (4:3) |
| November 11, 2014 | Brandon, Manitoba | Russian Selects | 3 | 2 | WHL all-stars |
| November 13, 2014 | Peterborough, Ontario | Russian Selects | 4 | 0 | OHL all-stars |
| November 17, 2014 | Kingston, Ontario | OHL all-stars | 5 | 1 | Russian Selects |
| November 18, 2014 | Bathurst, New Brunswick | QMJHL all-stars | 3 | 1 | Russian Selects |
| November 20, 2014 | Rimouski, Quebec | Russian Selects | 3 | 2 | QMJHL all-stars |
| Russia wins 11 points to 7 (15-14 RUS) |
2015 Canada-Russia Series
| Date |
Location |
CHL teams |
Russia |
| November 09, 2015 | Kelowna, British Columbia | WHL | 7 | 3 | Russia |
| November 10, 2015 | Kamloops, British Columbia | WHL | 4 | 2 | Russia |
| November 12, 2015 | Owen Sound, Ontario | OHL | 3 | 0 | Russia |
| November 16, 2015 | Windsor, Ontario | OHL | 2 | 1 | Russia |
| November 17, 2015 | Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec | QMJHL | 2 | 3 | Russia |
| November 19, 2015 | Halifax, Nova Scotia | QMJHL | 6 | 4 | Russia |
| CHL wins 15 points to 3 (22-13 CHL) |
All-time records
Updated through November 25, 2015
| |
W |
L |
OTL |
GF |
GA |
| Russian Selects | 24 | 53 | 1 | 201 | 313 |
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| OHL All-Stars | 22 | 3 | 1 | 105 | 52 |
| WHL All-Stars | 18 | 6 | 2 | 107 | 58 |
| QMJHL All-Stars | 14 | 9 | 3 | 101 | 91 |
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| CHL Totals | 54 | 18 | 6 | 313 | 201 |
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