Hockey Canada has found the man responsible for getting its junior team back into the medals.
Dominique Ducharme, an assistant to Dave Lowry on the team that finished sixth at this year’s tourney, will be behind the Canadian bench for the 2017 WJC tournament in Montreal and Toronto, per the Canadian Press.
Ducharme, 43, has spent his entire coaching career in the Quebec League, first as an assistant in Montreal, followed a head coaching gig in Halifax -- where he worked with the likes of Nathan MacKinnon, Jonathan Drouin and Nikolaj Ehlers.
This spring, Ducharme took the bench boss gig in Drummondville.
A former teammate of Tim Thomas and Martin St. Louis at the University of Vermont, Ducharme played a handful of games in the AHL and ECHL before transitioning to coaching.
Ducharme’s biggest accomplishment as a bench boss was capturing the Memorial Cup with Halifax three years ago.