{"id":522416,"date":"2026-03-25T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:37:10","slug":"don-granato-named-head-coach-of-u-s-mens-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522416\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Granato named head coach of U.S. men\u2019s national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">USA Hockey announced on Wednesday that Don Granato has been named head coach of its men\u2019s national team for the 2026 World Championship in Switzerland this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Granato was most recently head coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> from 2021 to 2024, finishing with a record of 122-125-27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to that, he spent two seasons as assistant coach of the NHL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> and one season as associate head coach with the University of Wisconsin\u2019s men\u2019s hockey team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Granato also served as a head coach at USA Hockey\u2019s National Team Development Program from 2011-17 and during that time guided the NTDP\u2019s U.S. National Under-18 Team to a pair of championships at the Under-18 Four Nations Tournament (2012, 2014) in addition to leading the U.S. National Under-17 Team to titles at the Four Nations Tournament (2013), World Under-17 Hockey Challenge (2013) and Under-17 Five Nations Tournament (2014).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His career has also included stops as an assistant coach with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> (2005-06) and head coach for the Chicago Wolves (2008-10). Granato also served as head coach of the Worcester IceCats from 2000-2005, where he received the AHL\u2019s Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award as the league\u2019s most outstanding coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also coached three seasons in the ECHL with the Columbus Chill (1997-99) and Peoria Rivermen (1999-2000), following four seasons in the USHL with the Wisconsin Capitols (1993-94) and Green Bay Gamblers (1994-97). He led Peoria to the 2000 ECHL Kelly Cup championship and claimed the 1996 USHL Clark Cup championship with Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On the international stage, Granato has served as an assistant coach of a U.S. Men\u2019s National Team on three different occasions, including in 2022, 2018 (bronze medal) and 2014. He also led the U.S. Under-18 Men\u2019s National Team to gold (2015) and silver (2013) medal finishes at the IIHF Under-18 Men\u2019s World Championship as head coach, while also serving as an assistant coach for the 2015 U.S. National Junior Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The U.S. enters the 2026 IIHF Men\u2019s World Championship as defending gold medalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA Hockey announced on Wednesday that Don Granato has been named head coach of its men\u2019s national team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-522416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116291269370471136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}