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Hockey Canada Names Coaching Staff For 2025 IIHF World Championship

April 30, 2025 at 8:00 pm CDT | by Paul Griser 3 Comments

Hockey Canada has named its coaching staff for the 2025 IIHF World Championship, per a Hockey Canada release.

With two weeks to go until heading to Sweden for the tournament, Columbus Blue Jackets head coach Dean Evason has been tabbed as the leader for Team Canada after serving as an assistant coach at the 2024 IIHF World Championship. The 60-year-old just finished his first season in Columbus after spending six seasons as an assistant and head coach of the Minnesota Wild. Evason appeared in 803 career games in the NHL, scoring 372 points and securing 1,002 career penalty minutes.

Joining Evason is his assistant coach in Columbus Steve McCarthy, who is set to make his international coaching debut. McCarthy had a solid run as a player in the NHL, suiting up in more than 300 games for the Blackhawks, Canucks, and Thrashers. He has been an assistant coach in the league for four seasons and also spent five years as an assistant in the AHL. Nashville Predators head coach Andrew Brunette will also take on an assistant role, giving Evason a fellow coach with head coaching experience to rely on. Brunette had a lengthy NHL career, appearing in 1,000 games and scoring 733 career points.

Fellow NHL head coach Ryan Huska (Calgary Flames) will also join the staff, bringing additional leadership and insight to the bench. The 49-year-old appeared in one career NHL game with the Blackhawks. Before joining the Flames, he served as head coach of their AHL affiliates for four years and spent 12 years before that as an assistant coach in the AHL. Rounding out the coaching staff, Calgary’s James Emery will serve as the team’s director of performance analysis.

Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas, who also currently serves as Hockey Canada’s general manager, said of the coaching staff:

“Dean, Andrew, Ryan and Steve are excellent NHL coaches that bring many years of professional experience and leadership, and we are thrilled that they will lead Team Canada at the 2025 world championship,” Dubas said. “Our coaching staff will also be supported by an elite support staff that has many years of NHL experience, as well as experience at several world championships and Olympics, and we know our entire staff will create an environment for our players to succeed and wear the Maple Leaf with pride in Stockholm and Herning.”

IIHF Andrew Brunette| Dean Evason| Ryan Huska| Steve McCarthy

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Canada To Name Dean Evason Head Coach For World Championship

April 23, 2025 at 10:51 am CDT | by Josh Erickson Leave a Comment

Blue Jackets head coach Dean Evason will get to extend his season as the bench boss for Canada at this year’s World Championship, according to Darren Dreger of TSN. His staff will include Flames head coach Ryan Huska, although the other names are yet to be announced.

Evason gets the call for Team Canada at the Worlds in back-to-back years after serving as an assistant under Utah coach André Tourigny in 2024’s bronze game loss. That was his first time serving on the bench for the national team in any capacity, coming nearly three decades into his coaching career. The former NHL center has been behind the bench at the NHL, AHL, and junior levels in every season since 1998-99 as an assistant or head coach.

He’ll oversee a Canadian squad looking to win the gold medal for the second time in three years after a season with Columbus that’s almost certainly going to make him a Coach of the Year finalist. His Blue Jackets, whose preseason odds pegged them to finish with just 66 points, ended up being the last team eliminated from postseason contention in the Eastern Conference and won 40 games in a season for the first time since Columbus orchestrated one of the greatest playoff upsets in league history against the Lightning in 2019.

Canada has yet to announce its roster for the tournament, but centers Adam Fantilli and Sean Monahan are expected to be strong candidates to join Evason in Stockholm next month. Both set career-high marks in points per game under Evason during the 2024-25 season.

As for Huska, this will mark his first time behind the bench for the senior national team. It’s not his first time coaching for Hockey Canada, though. He was an assistant coach for the 2011 and 2012 World Junior teams, which won silver and bronze medals, respectively. His Flames were also the last team eliminated from playoff contention in the West and finished with their best record since the 2021-22 campaign.

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