All the teaching employees of Canada’s gold-medal crew from this yr’s 4 Nations Face-Off is about to return on the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, making certain continuity behind the Canadian bench for the primary Winter Video games with NHL gamers since 2014.
Assistant coaches Bruce Cassidy, Pete DeBoer, Rick Tocchet, Misha Donskov and Dave Alexander will all be again, Hockey Canada introduced on Monday. Together with head coach Jon Cooper, the employees for Canada’s nationwide males’s hockey crew brings greater than 50 mixed seasons of NHL head teaching expertise.
4 assistant coaches are becoming a member of Jon Cooper’s employees for #MilanoCortina2026. 🇨🇦
Quatre entraîneurs adjoints épauleront Jon Cooper à Milan et à Cortina en 2026. 🇨🇦
🍁 Bruce Cassidy
🍁 Peter DeBoer
🍁 Rick Tocchet
🍁 Misha Donskov@TeamCanada | @EquipeCanada— Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) July 21, 2025
Cassidy has led the Vegas Golden Knights for the previous three seasons, which features a Stanley Cup victory in 2022-23. DeBoer most not too long ago served as coach of the Dallas Stars earlier than his firing in June; he has been to the Western Convention remaining in six of the final eight years, with three totally different groups. Tocchet is getting into his first season as coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, following three seasons with the Vancouver Canucks, highlighted by a Jack Adams Award-winning yr in 2023-24.
Donskov was employed by Hockey Canada as vp of hockey operations in June after two seasons as an assistant underneath DeBoer in Dallas and a profitable Cup run underneath Cassidy in Vegas. The nationwide crew’s goaltending marketing consultant, Alexander, is getting into his ninth season as goaltending coach for the St. Louis Blues, having coached Jordan Binnington, who backstopped Canada to the 4 Nations championship, each with the Blues and on the worldwide stage. The overall supervisor of Canada’s Olympic crew, Doug Armstrong, occupies the identical function for St. Louis.
The employees additionally contains director of efficiency evaluation James Emery and video coordinator Elliott Mondou. It was chosen by Cooper, who has gained two Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning, alongside Armstrong and different members of the Hockey Canada administration crew.
Canada has already introduced its first six gamers for the Olympic roster in Milan Cortina, the place it’s going to look to select up from a gold-medal efficiency on the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the final with NHL participation. Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Brayden Level and Sam Reinhart will all be within the lineup, however the remaining preliminary rosters, consisting of twenty-two skaters and three goalies, don’t must be submitted till December 31.
(Photograph of Pete DeBoer, Bruce Cassidy, Jon Cooper and Rick Tocchet on the 4 Nations Face-Off: Winslow Townson / Imagn Photographs)
