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Hockey Canada names Jon Cooper as Olympic, 4 Nations Face-Off coach
CALGARY — Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper will lead Canada at the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off and the 2026 Winter Olympics, Hockey Canada announced Monday.
It will be Cooper’s first time as Canada’s head coach since leading the national men’s team to a silver medal at the 2017 world hockey championship.
Cooper, from Prince George, B.C., has led the Lightning to four Stanley Cup finals, including back-to-back titles in 2020 and ’21.
He recently completed his 12th season with Tampa Bay and is the longest-tenured active head coach in the NHL.