According to the Canadian Press On Friday, Alain Letang of Renfrew, Ontario was named Canada’s coach for the 2024 World Junior Hockey Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently the head coach of the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League.
Letang has coached the past seven seasons in the OHL. He was initially an assistant coach for three seasons with the Owen Sound Attack from 2016 to 2019. Letang was then the head offensive coach during the 2019-20 season, before spending the last three seasons since 2021 coaching the Sting.
In addition to his duties in the OHL, Letang has been involved with Hockey Canada internationally. He captured gold for Canada as an assistant coach at the 2022 World Junior Hockey Championships in Edmonton and at the 2023 Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Breclav, Czech Republic.
As a player, Letang played 124 games in the NHL. He was a defensive back with the Dallas Stars for eight games in the 1999-2000 season, the Calgary Flames for two games in the 2001-2002 season, and with the New York Islanders for four games in the 2002-2003 season.
Also named to the coaching staff as an assistant is Canadian Olympic gold medalist Brent Seabrook of Richmond, British Columbia. Seabrook played 15 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks from 2005-2020, winning gold for Canada at the World Series. 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
