In a major announcement, Dave Cameron has been named head coach of Canada’s national junior hockey team and will guide the squad through the 2022 world junior championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta.
In view of the development, Cameron has replaced André Tourigny, who was recently named head coach of the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes.
It was gathered that Hockey Canada’s announcement came shortly after the Ontario Hockey League’s Ottawa 67’s also announced Cameron would replace Tourigny behind their bench.
It was clarified that Michael Dyck will return as the junior team’s assistant coach and the staff will be rounded out by assistants Louis Robitaille, Dennis Williams and goaltending consultant Olivier Michaud.
This appointment marks Cameron’s return to Ottawa and the junior program after spending five seasons with the Senators as a head coach and an assistant.
Recall that he took over the reins after Paul McLean was fired during the 2014-15 season and led the Ottawa team to a fourth-place finish in the Atlantic Division. Ottawa was then defeated in six games by Montreal in the first round of the playoffs.
Records have it that, internationally, he has won three medals at the world junior championship, winning silver as head coach in 2011, and gold and silver as an assistant coach in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
It is also important to note that Cameron was an assistant coach on Canada’s gold-winning team at the 2016 world championship.
