The coaching honors proceed to roll in for Jon Cooper.
Nowadays (Tuesday), Hockey Canada reported the Sovereign George item and two-time Stanley Glass winning head coach with the Tampa Inlet Lightning will lead Canada at the 2025 4 Countries Face-Off and 2026 Olympic Winter Recreations in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Coooper is the longest-tenured dynamic head coach within the NHL will make his return to the Team Canada seat for the primary time since 2017, when he driven the National Men’s Group to a silver decoration at the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
“Jon could be a world-class individual, coach and pioneer, and his amazing continue and victory within the NHL make him the idealize individual to lead Group Canada over the another two a long time at the 4 Countries Face-Off and 2026 Olympic Winter Games,” said Doug Armstrong, Group Canada common supervisor.
“Our administration bunch knows that Jon will speak to our nation with pride whereas bringing his winning family to the worldwide organize, and we see forward to working with him as we construct groups with the most excellent NHL players in Canada at two marquee events.”
Cooper as of late completed his 12th season as head coach of the Lightning, and is the franchise’s all-time pioneer in normal season recreations coached (879), customary season wins (480), playoff recreations coached (139) and playoff wins (84).
Amid his time with the Jolts, he has driven the team to 10 playoff appearances, one Presidents’ Trophy (2018-19) and four Stanley Cup Finals (2015, 2020, 2021, 2022), winning back-to-back Stanley Mugs in 2020 and 2021.
Earlier to joining Tampa Inlet, he went through two seasons (2010-12) with the Norfolk Chief naval officers of the American Hockey Alliance (AHL), winning the Calder Cup and AHL Coach of the Year Grant in 2011-12, and portion of one season with the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch.
The primary six players for the 4 Countries Face-Off are anticipated to be reported afterward this month, whereas declarations with respect to Canada’s Men’s Olympic Group will be made at a afterward date.
The 4 Countries Face-Off comprises of NHL players from Canada, Finland, Sweden and the Joined together States. The seven-game arrangement will take put Feb. 12-20 at the Chime Middle in Montréal and TD Cultivate in Boston.