The Canadian national bandy team has been competing in the Bandy World Championships since the early 1990s. The Bandy World Championships are a competition between Bandy -playing nations Bandy was played in Canada long before that, but has always lived in the shadow of ice hockey. Bandy is a Winter sport, where a ball is hit with a stick It shares a common ancestry with Ice hockey, in that it likely developed from the informal "ball and Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice.