Theoren Fleury> International Career

-1988 World Junior Champion
-1988 World Junior All-Star Team
-1991 World Championship Silver Medalist
-1991 World Championship Second All-Star Team
-1991 Canada Cup Champion
-2002 Olympic Champion

Tournament Statistics
 

Season	Championship	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	S	PCT	PPG	Result	Jersey #
1986-87	World U20	6	2	3	5	-	2	-	-	0.83	Disqualified	10
1987-88	World U20	7	6	2	8	-	4	-	-	1.14	Gold	9
1989-90	World	9	4	7	11	-	10	-	-	1.22	Fourth
1990-91	World	8	5	5	10	-	8	-	-	1.25	Silver
1991-92	Canada Cup	7	1	4	5	1	12	16	6.3	0.71	Gold	14
1996-97	World Cup	8	4	2	6	2	6	23	17.4	0.75	Silver	14
1997-98	Olympic	6	1	3	4	-	2	-	-	0.67	Fourth	74
2001-02	Olympic	6	0	2	2	1	6	16	0.0	0.33	Gold	74
Totals	8 Champs.	57	23	29	51	-	50	-	-	0.89	3 Gold, 2 Silver	-
	(World U20)	13	8	5	13	-	6	-	-	1.00
	(World)	16	10	9	19	-	18	-	-	1.19
	(Can./Wld. Cup )	15	5	6	11	3	18	40	12.5	0.73
	(Olympic)	12	1	5	6	-	8	-	-	0.50

1987/88 WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - MOSCOW, SOVIET UNION
In 1987/88, Flames prospect, Fleury was tearing up the Western Hockey League with the Moose Jaw Warriors and was teamed up with fellow WHL potent scorer, Nordiques prospect Joe Sakic of the Swift Current Broncos, for the World Junior tournament behind the Iron Curtain in Moscow.  Wearing the 'C', the objective for Fleury was redemption after the punch up that damaged the Canadians reputation and gold medal hopes from 1987.  In the dying days of December, Canada defeated Sweden, Czechoslovakia and United States and tied Finland, leading up to the much hyped showdown with the Soviets on New Years Day.  Fleury's team would prevail as he scored in a tight, emotional 3-2 triumph.  With games against West Germany and Poland, Gold was surely on the horizon for Canada.  They didn't dissapoint with respective 8-1 and 9-1 blowouts.  Fleury scored six goals in seven games and was named to the all-star team for his final tournament

1990 WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS - BERN, SWITZERLAND
After a Turner Cup in 1988, a Stanley Cup in 1989, Fleury's spring of 1990 didn't garner a championship.  After losing in six games to the Los Angeles Kings in the Smythe Division Semi-Finals, Fleury headed to Bern for his first World Senior Championships.  Fleury added huge offense to the Canadian as he finished second in scoring with 11 points in 9 games.  Unfortunately, Canada wound up in fourth place in the medal round.

1991 WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS - HELSINKI/TURKU, FINLAND
Coming off a 51-goal campaign and a rough seven game playoff series against Edmonton in which he played through a seperated shoulder, Fleury showed great commitment to Hockey Canada when he joined Canada's entry in May for his second Worlds in Finland.  Canada would improve on their 1990 efforts, but were just shy from being crowned World Champions for the first time since 1961 as they earned silver behind Sweden.  Fleury scored ten points, including five goals, in eight games.

1991 CANADA CUP
Fleury's first international exploit with the World's best took place in the Canada Cup, a 'real' world championship with the best professionals competiting.  After training camp in August, Fleury made the team, but along with Detroit superstar Steve Yzerman, was not among the twenty skaters dressed for the first game against Finland on August 31 in Toronto.  Canada tied Finland 2-2 and Mike Keenan decided to insert Fleury into the lineup against the United States on September 2 in Hamilton, while Yzerman would go on to sit every game in the tournament. 

Against the Americans, Fleury the agitator made a major impact.  Fleury made big hits early and goated Kevin Hatcher into taking a penalty.  The Canucks capatilized on the powerplay to draw first blood.  After a Steve Larmer shorthanded goal, Fleury set up Dale Hawerchuk on the powerplay to put the Canadians up 3-0 after the first period.  Player of the game Wayne Gretzky would ultimately lead Canada to a 6-3 win and his pre-tournament compliments of Fleury were justified: "If Mario (Lemieux) and I get to play on a line again, I know who I'd like as the third guy on the line.  That Fleury, he gets everybody so peed off they'd all be after him and forget about us!"  Unfortunatly, Lemieux withdrew from the Canada Cup with a bad back before training camp.

After another amazing performance by Gretzky in a 4-1 win over Sweden three days later, Fleury scored his lone goal of the tournament in Halifax against Czechoslovakia on September 7.  His goal came 10:32 into the first period on Dominik Hasek as he was set up by Mark Messier to make the score 4-0 Canada.  Fleury's Flames teammate Al MacInnis and Gretzky both scored twice in the 6-2 assault.

At le Colisee in Quebec on September 9, Canada faced off against the Soviet Union in the final game of the round robin.  Unfortunately, it was meaningless as the Soviets were out of playoff contention.  Still, the teams battled to a great, hard fought 3-3 tie.  Fleury sparked Canada's powerplay goals as he set up Eric Lindros in the first period for the 1-1 goal, then Steve Larmer in third to even the game at two.  The Soviets went ahead again in the third courtesy of Alexander Semak, but Brent Sutter scored the deciding goal for the resiliant Canadians with 5:18 left.

Canada met Sweden in the semi-finals at Maple Leafs Gardens on September 12 to determine who would face the United States in the best-of-three final.  After a scoreless opening thirty-six minutes, none other than the Great One Wayne Gretzky broke the goose egg and opened the flood gates as Rick Tocchet, Sutter and Dirk Graham added goals while Bill Ranford turned aside all thirty Swede shots in a big 4-0 win.

The favoured Canadians handled the Americans early on in the first game of the final, but the United States took out Canada's top weapon Gretzky 8:39 into the second period thanks to a blindside hit by Gary Suter.  Just minutes after the hit, none other than Suter scored to make it a 2-1 game.  But Gretzky's former teammate Messier took over by leading the Canadians with the 3-1 goal while Sutter scored another big goal to make the final score 4-1.  "When Wayne went down there was number 11 (Messier) playing great," Fleury said of Messier after the game.

On September 16 at Copps Coliseum, Team Canada won their fourth Canada Cup as they beat the USA 4-2 in the second game of the best-of-three final.  Canada appeared to be well in control at the fourteen minute mark of the first after Fleury set up Messier for the first goal at 13:39 and Larmer scored at 13:59, but the Americans evened the game in the second period with goals by Jeremy Roenick and Kevin Miller.  In the third period, Larmer scored shorthanded to break the tie with just under eight minutes left and his Blackhawks teammate Dirk Graham broke the tension with an empty-netter at 19:18.
 

1996 WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY, 1998 OLYMPICS and 2002 OLYMPICS will be added soon.