games played, but lost to the Soviet Union by a 2–1 score and finished with the bronze medal. The CAHA established a second national team to increase the available pool of players at the next Olympics in 1968. Bauer recruited Jack Bownass to coach the second team which was based in Ottawa. Bauer considered both teams equal and disliked attempts by the media to label them as an "A-team" in Winnipeg and a "B-team" in Ottawa. In ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics, Canada won five of seven games played and earned the bronze medal. Canada went into the final game versus the Soviet Union with a chance to win gold, but lost by a 5–0 score and Bauer described it as the best game he had seen the Soviets play. Hockey Canada was incorporated in 1968, and the took over management of the national team from the Canadian Hockey Foundation in 1969. Bauer was appointed a member of the board of directors, which decided at its first meeting to make the eligibility of professionals at the World Championships its priority for improving the national team. Hockey Canada successfully secured funding from the Government of Canada for the national team to travel to the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championships in Sweden. Bauer's team was inexperienced internationally, and lost twice each to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Sweden, and place fourth overall. National team goes on hiatus Bauer was against the use of professionals at the World Championships. His participation in the national team ended in 1969, when Canada was granted permission by the IIHF to use a limited number of professionals while hosting the 1970 Ice Hockey World Championships. On January 4, 1970, Canada withdrew from international play and hosting the World Championships due to disagreements with the IIHF and the International Olympic Committee over the use of professionals and eligibility of players for the Olympics. The national team was disbanded shortly thereafter. Bauer remained involved with hockey while serving on the directorate of Canada's National Health & Fitness Council, and continued in an advisory role to hockey coaches and players at UBC. He offered advice to Tom Watt on selecting a Canadian team for the 1972 Winter Universiade, but chose not to coach or manage since Canada had not yet returned to international play. Bauer wrote an article published in the Toronto Sun on September 2, 1972, giving