Gardiner MacDougall named head coach; Travis Crickard, Bruce Richardson & Ryan Smith to serve as assistants
CALGARY, Alberta –Hockey
Canada has named the coaching staff that will guide Canada’s National Men’s
Under-18 Team at the
2024 IIHF U18 World Championship, April 25-May 5, in Espoo and Vantaa,
Finland
.
The winningest coach in Canadian university regular season men’s hockey history, Gardiner MacDougall (Bedeque, PE/University of New Brunswick, AUS) will serve as head coach. He will be joined by assistant coaches Travis Crickard (St. John’s, NL/Saint John, QMJHL), Bruce Richardson (Montreal, QC) and Ryan Smith (Headingley, MB/Spokane, WHL), along with goaltending coach Dan De Palma (Kamloops, BC/Kamloops, WHL).
The coaching staff was selected by
Scott Salmond (Creston, BC)
, senior vice-president of high performance and hockey operations and
Benoit Roy (Sudbury, ON),senior manager of
hockey…
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