Team Canada announces their coaching staff for Beijing 2022.

Canada reveals its lineup of coaches.

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Team Canada announces their coaching staff for Beijing 2022.
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There are still a ton of questions surrounding the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing China, including whether or not players from the National Hockey League will even be allowed to participate in the tournament, but on Monday one of those questions was answered when tournament favorites Team Canada unveiled their star studded coaching staff for the event.

I'm not sure how this will work in the event that the NHL does not wish to participate in the tournament, a matter that will no doubt be greatly complicated by the COVID protocols that will surround attending such an event, but if the league does indeed choose to participate these will be the men coaching Team Canada:

Head coach - Jon Cooper, Tampa Bay Lightning.

Assistant Coach - Bruce Cassidy, Boston Bruins.

Assistant Coach - Peter DeBoer, Las Vegas Golden Knights.

Assistant Coach - Barry Trotz, New York Islanders.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that has followed the sport of hockey that Team Canada will be boasting a wealth of hockey talent in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, but even by the standards of the hockey crazed nation this appears to be an extremely stacked coaching staff. Cooper has captured the last two consecutive Stanley Cups as the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, DeBoer and Trotz have both led their teams to deep runs in the Stanley Cup playoffs in every season they have been behind the bench of their current rosters and Cassidy remains one of the most well respected coaches in the league having never missed the playoffs as head coach of the Bruins.

No doubt Canada will no be the only country to bring the full might of it's hockey talent to this tournament, the exposure that both players and countries will have the opportunity to attract when the tournament is hosted in China may be unlike any that we have seen before, but I suspect that no other nation will be able to boast a coaching staff as talented as the one Canada has announced.

On a small side note, this also dispels a rumor that has floated around for quite some time suggesting that Mike Babcock could make his big return on the international stage.

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