Lightning tampa hockey coach Jon Cooper will head Team Canada if NHL players compete in Beijing Games

Hockey Canada has appointed lightning Tampa hockey coach Jon Cooper as their interim Olympic head of training. Three NHL head coaches, Bruce Cassidy of Boston, Peter DeBoer of Vegas, and Barry Trotz of the New York Islanders have been named as assistants.

Cooper, a native of Prince George, BC, led Lightning to a second consecutive Stanley Cup title last month. Beating the Montreal Canadiens in five games. He was previously the head coach of Team Canada at the 2017 IIHF World Championships, winning a silver medal.

He was an assistant coach for the North American team at the 2016 World Cup in Hockey. 4,444 NHL players did not attend the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics after competing in five consecutive Olympics. Canada has won gold in three of them, with Pat Quinn leading the team to the title in 2002 in Salt Lake City. Mike Babcock doing the same in 2010 in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi.

Canada won bronze at Pyeongchang under coach Willie Desjardins. The schedule for the next NHL season still has room for the Olympic break. But the federation says no decision has been made on the players’ participation yet. NHL has agreed to suspend play from February 2. 7 and 22 in 2022, but note that negotiations are underway between the NHL Players Association and the International Ice Hockey Federation. The league has said that if players.

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