Blazers’ Dan De Palma to coach at third consecutive World Juniors

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He’s going BACK for another shot at GOLD 🥇

Our Director of Goaltending Dan De Palma has been named to the @HockeyCanada Coaching Staff for the 2027 @IIHFHockey World Juniors in Edmonton / Red Deer. pic.twitter.com/l8eeE3dNtd

— Kamloops Blazers (@blazerhockey) July 20, 2026

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De Palma won back-to-back gold medals with Team Canada at the U18 World Championships in 2024 and 2025. He also won gold at the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and a silver at the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.

This will be the seventh consecutive year in which the Kamloops Blazers have had some kind of representation on Canada’s World Junior Team. Head Coach and General Manager Shaun Clouston was an assistant coach on the 2024 team that also finished in fifth place.

Logan Stankoven and Caedan Bankier played on the 2023 team that won gold, Stankoven and Dylan Garand won gold in 2022, while Garand and Connor Zary won silver in 2021.

Canada is schedule to begin preparations for the annual holiday tournament at the World Junior Summer Showcase, which runs July 26 to Aug. 1 in Windsor, Ontario. Finland, Sweden and the United States will also be participating at this tournament.

Team Canada is currently scheduled to play Czechia, Switzerland, Latvia and Norway in round-robin action at the World Juniors, which gets underway on Boxing Day. Defending champions Sweden, Finland, the United States, Slovakia and Germany will square off in the other group.

A tournament schedule has not yet been released.