This is David Lassonde's fourth time serving as an assistant coach of the U.S. Under-18 Men's National Team, having previously coached the gold-medal winning 2023 squad, as well as the 2022 the 2021 teams.
The Durham, N.H., native most recently served as an assistant coach for the 2024 U.S. National Junior Team that won the gold medal at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship. Lassonde has coached three additional U.S. National Junior Teams, including for the silver medal-winning 2019 squad and gold medal-winning 2013 team;
He was also on staff for the U.S. Olympic Men’s Hockey Team at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China; the 2015 championship-winning U.S. Under-17 Select Team; and the U.S. Under-18 Select Team that finished second at the 2016 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup.
Lassonde, who has more than 30 years of coaching experience, was named USA Hockey’s national goaltending coach prior to the start of the 2020-21 season and is now in his third season with USA Hockey's National Team Development Program.
Lassonde also worked with Team USA at the World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships, winning a gold medal in 2017, has served as a mentor at USA Hockey Player Development Camps since 1990 and has worked as an instructor for USA Hockey’s Warren Strelow National Goalie Program since 2007.
Lassonde boasts a 32-year NCAA Division I men's hockey coaching career that includes stops at Dartmouth College, University of Denver, University of New Hampshire, Miami University and University of Wisconsin. Lassonde's resume includes 20 trips to the NCAA Tournament with five appearances in the Frozen Four, three conference tournament titles and six regular-season championships. Lassonde played collegiately for two seasons (1981-83) as a goaltender for Providence College.
Chris Luongo spent the 2015-16 season, his first with USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program, as assistant coach of the U.S. National Under-18 Team. He most recently served as the head coach of the University of Alabama-Huntsville men’s ice hockey team from 2010-12.
Prior to being named head coach, Luongo worked as an assistant coach with the Chargers from 2008-10, helping lead UAH to the 2010 College Hockey America playoff title and a berth in the 2010 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I men’s ice hockey tournament. The Fraser, Michigan, native’s coaching experience also includes stints as an assistant coach with Wayne State University (2006-08) and the Motor City Mechanics of the United Hockey League (2004-06).
Prior to joining the coaching ranks, Luongo enjoyed a 15-year professional hockey career that was highlighted by stops with the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings, New York Islanders and Ottawa Senators.
The 1996 recipient of USA Hockey’s Bob Johnson Award, which recognizes annually excellence in international competition, Luongo appeared on three U.S. Men’s National Teams at the IIHF Men’s World Championship, helping Team USA claim the bronze medal at the 1996 event.
Luongo played college hockey at Michigan State University from 1985-89, helping the Spartans to the 1986 NCAA Division I national championship. He served as team captain during his senior season (1988-89), alternate captain as a junior (1987-88), was selected to the NCAA All-Tournament Team in 1987 and the All-CCHA Second Team in 1988-89.
Peter Laviolette is serving as head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team for the third time. Previously, he led Team USA at the 2004 and 2005 International Ice Hockey Federation Men's World Championships, leading the team to a bronze medal in 2004.
He was the head coach of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team in Torino, Italy. He then served as an assistant coach for the 2014 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team in Sochi, Russia.
Also, he served as an assistant coach for the United States during the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, where he helped Team USA to the semifinals.
Laviolette was named head coach of the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators on May 6, 2014.
He has also worked as the head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, a role he held from 2009-13. In his first year with the club, Laviolette guided the Flyers to a playoff berth and a spot in the Stanley Cup Final. Laviolette also helped Philadelphia to an Atlantic Division title (2010-11) and two playoff appearances (2010-11, 2011-12) while compiling a 145-98-29 record.
Prior to joining Philadelphia, Laviolette spent parts of five seasons as head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes. During his stint in Carolina, Laviolette amassed a 167-122-34 record in 323 games, including a 52-22-8 regular-season record in 2005-06, setting Carolina franchise records for single-season wins (52) and points (112) en route to a Southeast Division championship. That same season, Laviolette led the Hurricanes to the franchise’s first Stanley Cup and was named a finalist for the Jack Adams Trophy as the NHL’s Most Outstanding Coach.
His NHL head-coaching career started with the New York Islanders in 2001-02. Laviolette racked up a 77-62-25 record in two seasons in New York, leading the Islanders to consecutive playoff appearances after the franchise had failed to make the playoffs since the 1993-94 campaign.
Before becoming an NHL head coach, Laviolette spent three seasons in the Boston Bruins organization, serving as assistant coach with the NHL club in 2000-01, and as head coach of the Bruins’ American Hockey League affiliate, Providence, for two seasons (1998-99, 1999-2000). In his first year at Providence, Laviolette guided the team to a Calder Cup championship and received the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award as AHL Coach of the Year.
As a player, Laviolette skated for the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team in both the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Winter Games, serving as captain during the 1994 tournament. He also spent 11 years in professional hockey, including a 12-game stint with the New York Rangers in 1988-89.
As a collegian, Laviolette played four seasons (1982-86) at Westfield State College in Massachusetts, where he appeared in 93 games and contributed 43 goals and 44 assists.
Peter and his wife, Kristen, have three children and reside in New Jersey.
Cory Laylin served as the head coach of the U.S. Under-18 Men's Select Team that placed fourth at the 2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup.
Making the jump from assistant to head coach for the second time in his international coaching career, Laylin also served as an assistant coach at the 2017 Hlinka Gretzky Cup. In 2016, he guided the U.S. Under-17 Men’s Select Team as head coach to an undefeated championship at the 2016 Under-17 Five Nations Tournament. Prior to that, Laylin served as an assistant coach for the the Under-17 Men's Select Team that won first place at the 2015 Under-17 Five Nations Tournament.
Laylin served as an assistant coach at Hamline University for two seasons (2008-10) before being hired as the head coach prior to the 2014-15 season.
Prior to becoming head coach at Hamline, Laylin served as the general manager and head coach of the Brookings Blizzard in the North American Hockey League for two seasons from 2012-14. He also spent one season (2010-11) coaching in Italy with SV Kaltern before returning to the states as the co-head coach at Buffalo High School in Minnesota.
Prior to his career as a coach. Laylin was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft. He played his college hockey at the University of Minnesota, where he scored 58 goals in four seasons.
Laylin would go on to play 16 seasons of professional hockey in Austria, Germany, Italy and Slovenia., much of it overseas. Along with his success on the ice, Laylin played four seasons of professional roller hockey for the Minnesota Arctic Blast, San Jose Rhinos and Minnesota Blue Ox, tallying 101 goals and 138 assists for 239 points in 97 career games.
Dean Lombardi was selected to join the U.S. Men’s National Team Advisory Group in 2009. The group was formed in February of 2007 to assist USA Hockey with the selection of players and staff of U.S. Men’s National Teams, including the Olympic Team.
Lombardi has been the president and general manager of the National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings since 2006-07.
Under Lombardi’s leadership, Los Angeles has qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs in every season but one since 2008-09. In 2011-12, the Kings captured the first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
Prior to coming to Los Angeles, Lombardi spent two seasons as a professional scout for the Philadelphia Flyers (2003-04, 2005-06) and 13 years as member of the San Jose Sharks’ front office (1990-2003).
With the Sharks, including the last seven years as the team’s general manager, Lombardi helped build the team into a perennial playoff contender. During his tenure as general manager, San Jose reached the playoffs five times, made two appearances in the Western Conference semifinals and clinched the Pacific Division title after the team earned a franchise record 99 points.
Lombardi also served as the assistant general manager of the Minnesota North Stars from 1988-90.
Lombardi and his wife, Wandamae, reside in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Don Lucia is serving as head coach of the U.S. National Junior Team for the first time.
Entering his 27th season as a head men's ice hockey coach at the NCAA Division I level, Lucia's 622 wins ranked fourth all-time among active coaches. He has won two national titles (Minnesota-2002, 2003) and his teams have averaged nearly 24 victories per season.
Lucia has had a variety of U.S. coaching positions. In August 2012, he was a camp coach at the U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp in Lake Placid, N.Y. In 1996, he served as head coach of the U.S. Select-16 Team in a series vs. Finland. In 1995, he was the head coach of Team West at the United States Olympic Festival in Denver, and later that year was an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's Select Team that competed for the Tampere Cup in Finland.
Lucia has been the head men's ice hockey coach at the University of Minnesota since the 1999-2000 season, winning national titles in 2002 and 2003, and guiding the Gophers to two other Frozen Four appearances (2005, 2012).
From 1993-99, he was at the helm of the Colorado College program, which he took to a pair of NCAA Frozen Fours (1996, 1997). Lucia began his head-coaching career in 1987 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he stayed until 1993.
Lucia's first coaching stint came as an assistant coach at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1981-85). He also served two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Alaska Anchorage (1985-87).
A native of Grand Rapids, Minn., Lucia played collegiately at the University of Notre Dame (1977-81).
Lucia and his wife, Joyce, have two daughters, Alison and Jessica, as well as two sons, Tony and Mario. Lucia also became a grandfather in the summer of 2011. The Lucia family makes its home in Plymouth, Minn.
Lachapelle is serving as head coach of the U.S. Under-18 Women’s National Team for the second time after leading the 2022 team to a silver medal at the 2022 IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship.
Lachapelle previously served as an assistant coach for the U18 Women's National program for four straight seasons from 2013-17. During that time, she helped lead the U.S. to three gold medals (2015-17) and one silver medal (2014) in the IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship and also was part of the staff of the U.S. Under-18 Select Team that played in the U18 Series against Canada each season.
Lachapelle has also served as an assistant coach of the U.S. Women’s National Under-22 Select Team both in 2018 and 2019 and has been a coach at numerous national and player development camps over the last decade.
Lachapelle is in her sixth season, and fourth as head coach, with the Holy Cross women’s ice hockey team in 2022-23. She spent the first two seasons as the team’s associate head coach. The Lewsiton, Maine, native helped increase the team’s win total in Hockey East by four in her first year as head coach and also its conference point total by nine.
Prior to joining the Crusaders coaching staff, Lachapelle was an assistant coach for nine seasons at Boston University (2008-17). During that time, she helped the Terriers to five Hockey East titles and six NCAA Tournament appearances, including two trips to the Frozen Four (2011, 2013) where the Terriers advanced to the title game both years. She also spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Ohio State University (2004-08) and prior to that was an assistant coach at Niagara University from 2001-04, highlighted by a trip to the NCAA Frozen Four in 2002. She began her collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Union College for two seasons (1999-01). Lachapelle received the Women’s Assistant Coach Award from the American Hockey Coaches Association in 2013.
Nick Laurila currently serves as the video coordinator of the U.S. Women’s National Ice Hockey Team, and has attended various events and camps in that role.
Laurila spent the 2016-17 campaign as director of operations for the Ohio State University women's hockey team before serving three seasons in the same role with the University of Alabama-Huntsville men's hockey team.
Before joining the University of Alabama-Huntsville, Laurila spent the previous six years at WCHA-member Michigan Tech, where he served as video coordinator for five years.
In his time at Tech, he was responsible for video analysis, pre-scouting opponents, live game breakdown, as well as assisting in the day-to-day operations of the team.
He also currently works with USA Hockey serving as the video coordinator of the U.S. Women’s National Ice Hockey Team, and has attended various events and camps in that role.
Additionally, Laurila spent time with the Chicago Machine of Major League Lacrosse from 2008-09, assisting the organization in a marketing and video capacity.
A native of Carol Stream, Illinois, Laurila earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Michigan Tech in 2010 and his MBA from UAH in 2016.
Wayne Lamarre began working with USA Hockey and the women’s program in June of 2015 as an athletic trainer for the Under-18 development camp held at the University of New England (UNE) in Biddeford, Maine. He is currently serving on the athletic training staff of the 2022 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team. He also worked with the U.S. Women’s National Team at the USA Hockey Women's Winter Training Camp in Blaine, Minnesota, in December of 2015.
Lamarre is a Clinical Professor and the Director of the Athletic Training Program at UNE.
Prof. Lamarre has over twenty years of experience as an athletic trainer, working with athletes of all ages and all levels, including professional soccer, professional dance, and professional hockey. He is the former President of the Vermont Association of Athletic Trainers, and a contributor/reviewer for the Journal of Athletic Training.
Lamarre is certified as an athletic trainer through the BOC, and holds a certificate in advanced lifesaving skills from the American Heart Association.
Nate LaPoint is serving as equipment manager for the first time for the U.S. Men's Olympic Ice Hockey Team at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
LaPoint served in the same role for the U.S. National Junior Team at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship, after handling a similar capacity for the 2021 IIHF WJC. He had two stints as an equipment manager for the U.S. Under-18 Men's Select Team. In 2018, LaPoint served in the same role for the Under-18 Select Team that placed fourth at the 2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup.
Entering his 13th year as equipment manager at the University of Wisconsin, LaPoint is in charge of the team's equipment needs. His duties include skate sharpening, equipment inventory, laundry and travel logistics.
Before moving to Madison, LaPoint four years as an assistant equipment manager with the University of North Dakota men’s hockey program. He also assisted with video while on road trips.
LaPoint graduated from UND in 2009 with a degree in general studies and a minor in meteorology. Prior to his time at North Dakota, he attended Northland College for two years, where he played ice hockey for the school's NCAA Division III team.
Connor Lyons, sports performance director at Florida Hospital Center Ice in Wesley Chapel, Florida, is serving as a strength and conditioning coach at the 2018 Four Nations Cup in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Prior to joining Florida Hospital Center Ice, Lyons spent nine years in the strength and conditioning industry. He is a Tampa native having graduated from Wharton High School before going off to play both junior and NCAA hockey. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida where he earned his B.S. in Athletic Training from the College of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA and a Performance Enhancement Specialist through NASM. He has worked with many first-round picks, all-stars, national and world champions as well as hundreds of professional athletes from the ATP, NFL, MLB, and NHL.
He got his start in the performance industry as an intern with the Athlete’s Compound located at Saddlebrook in Wesley Chapel back in 2008. After completing his internship he became a strength coach assistant at the University of South Florida working primarily with football during a time span where the Bulls won two bowl games (International, and Meineke Car Care Bowls). After leaving USF Connor went on to become the Director of NFL Combine Prep at Athletic Edge and helped place 22 college football players on active NFL rosters and coached two athletes to NFL Combine records in the L-Drill and vertical jump in 2012. During his tenure at Athletic Edge he was asked to come back to The Athletes Compound as the Associate Director of Performance and Director of Strength for Saddlebrook Tennis Academy. Connor spent three years at the Athletes Compound dealing primarily with MLB prospects, ATP professionals and youth development in the Saddlebrook Tennis Academy. He then spent a brief period at The Performance Compound (now ASPI) as the Director of Combine Prep helping send over 20 football players to NFL teams. He works with the Special Olympics of Pasco County’s Powerlifting program and helped consult for the 2017 USA Hockey Southeast District Girls National Camp Tryouts held at Florida Hospital Center Ice. Lyons was also a strength and conditioning coach for the 2018 U.S. Olympic Women's Hockey Team’s preparation for PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games.
He is a firm believer in strength, positioning and patterning over all other aspects of training. He believes putting athletes in good positions and teaching them to both produce and accept force will create the best carryover to any and every sport while also helping decrease the likelihood of injuries.
Brett Larson is serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. National Junior Team for the second time in 2024 after serving in the same capacity in 2020.
Previously, Larson served as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2022 Olympics and was head coach of the U.S. Junior Select Team that won the 2012 World Junior A Challenge.
Larson is in his sixth campaign as head men’s ice hockey coach at St. Cloud State University in 2023-24 where he has led the Huskies to four NCAA tournament appearances in his first three years, including a national runner-up finish in 2020-21.
Before joining the Huskies, Larson served two stints (2008-11, 2015-18) as an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota Duluth. On both occasions, his time behind the Bulldog bench culminated in NCAA national championships, as Larson was part of the program’s first-ever title win in 2011 before helping the Bulldogs earn another national championship in 2018.
In between his time with UMD, Larson spent two seasons (2011-13) as head coach of the United States Hockey League's Sioux City Musketeers as well as a pair of seasons (2013-15) as an associate head coach at Ohio State University.
A Duluth, Minn., native, Larson played four seasons (1991-95) at UMD where he was tabbed captain his senior year and earned WCHA All-Academic honors three times. An 11th round pick of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings in 1990, Larson went on to play 12 years of professional hockey, including two (1999-2001) as a player-coach with the San Diego Gulls of the West Coast Hockey League. He also skated for the U.S. National Inline Team, helping the U.S. earn a gold (1999) and silver medal (1998).
Amanda Long is currently serving as the video coach for the 2022 Under-18 Women’s National Team.
Long previously supported Team USA in various capacities, including as hockey operations for the U.S. Women’s National Team during the 2019-20 Rivalry Series and 2019 Pittsburgh Series. She also worked the 2021 August Festival as a video coach and has worked various camps since 2016.
Outside of her USA Hockey assignments, Long currently hold the director of operations role for the women’s hockey team at Minnesota State Mankato. She’s been in that role since 2019. Prior, she worked in the youth hockey development department of the San Jose Sharks, where she managed the Sharks High School Hockey League.
Long, a Ukiah, California native and played collegiate hockey with both Wayne State University and Lindenwood.
Nate Leaman, who recently finished his 10th season as the head coach of the Providence College men’s ice hockey, is serving as an assistant coach of the U.S. Men's National Team for the first time in 2021.
Leaman is no stranger to the world stage and most recently led the U.S. National Junior Team as head coach to the gold medal at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship. He has also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. National Junior Team in both 2007 (bronze) and 2009.
Leaman made his USA Hockey coaching debut as an assistant coach at the 2005 IIHF U18 Men’s World Championship where the U.S. won gold in the Czech Republic.
Leaman has served as an NCAA Division I head men’s ice hockey coach since 2003-04.
He guided Providence to the 2015 NCAA championship and all total has led the Friars to six NCAA tournament appearances, including two trips to the Frozen Four. During his tenure with PC, Leaman has coached 26 NHL Draft picks in addition to six undrafted players currently under NHL contract.
Prior to Providence, Leaman spent eight seasons (2003-11) at the helm of the Union College men’s ice hockey team where he led the school to its first ECAC regular-season championship and NCAA Division I Tournament appearance in 2010-11, a year that marked the program’s fourth consecutive winning campaign and a then school-best 26 wins. Leaman departed Union with 138 wins, which at the time marked the most in Dutchmen history.
Leaman was awarded the Spencer Penrose Award as the top coach in NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey in 2011, and was also a finalist for the honor four other times (2019, 2016, 2015, 2010). Leaman was honored as the Hockey East Coach of the Year in 2016, and was named ECAC Coach of the Year in both 2011 and 2010.
Born and raised in Centerville, Ohio, Leaman captained the SUNY Cortland men’s ice hockey team his junior and senior years, finishing as one of the top-20 scorers in school history. He was inducted into the Red Dragons Hall of Fame in 2014.
Mike Leone, who is in his second season as head coach of the Green Bay Gamblers in the USHL, returns as an assistant coach for the U.S. Junior Select in 2023 team after serving in the same capacity in 2022.
No stranger to international competition, Leone was an assistant coach for the 2022 U.S. Under-18 Men’s Select Team at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup; at the 2021 Under-17 Five Nations Tournament, where helped guide the U.S. to the championship; and the 2021 IIHF Under-18 Men’s World Championship. Additionally, Leone was an assistant coach for Team USA's 2019 Under-17 Four Nations championship-winning team and for the Under-17 World Hockey Challenge, where the U.S. placed second.
Before joining the Gamblers, Leone served as an assistant coach for USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program. He also spent time as an assistant coach for the Bowling Green State University men’s ice hockey team (2018-19) and for the Quad City Mallards of the ECHL (2017-18).
Leone played three years for the Western Michigan University’s men’s ice hockey team before competing four years professionally in the ECHL for the Toledo Walleye (2014-17) and the Kalamazoo Wings (2012-13).
Matt Levine will serve as the equipment manager for the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team at the 2022 Para Hockey Cup in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He also served as equipment manager for the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team at the 2022 IPH Cup in Ostrava, Czechia.
Dr. T. Sean Lynch is serving as the team physician for the U.S. Men’s National Team for the first time in 2022.
The Omaha, Neb., native is currently a senior staff surgeon at Henry Ford Health in Detroit and vice chair of academic affairs for the department of orthopedic surgery. He specializes in the nonoperative and operative treatment of hip and knee disorders in athletes of all levels, and is an expert in hip surgery and knee ligament reconstruction with minimally invasive and arthroscopic techniques.
A past competitive ice hockey player, Lynch is currently the head team physician for the Detroit Lions and has previously served as a team physician for the New York Yankees, New York City Football Club (Major League Soccer) and Fordham University. He has also served as team physician for Four/Five Nations Cup tournaments in Russia in 2017 and 2020 for the U.S. Under-17 National Team part of USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program.
He received a bachelor’s degree in biology and his medical degree from Georgetown University. Lynch was a resident in orthopedic surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago and completed his orthopedic sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic where he received the prestigious Herodicus Society North American Traveling Fellowship. The Fellowship allowed him to work with hip arthroscopists and knee ACL and articular cartilage specialists across the United States.
Lynch has won numerous research and education awards and lectures nationally and internationally on sports hip and knee injuries.
Derek Lalonde, who recently wrapped his first season as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, is serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men’s National Team for the second time in 2024 after serving in the same capacity in 2023.
Lalonde finished his first season as head coach of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings after four seasons as an assistant for the Tampa Bay Lightning (2018-22), where he won two Stanley Cups.
He has served on the staff of U.S. teams on three other occasions, helping the U.S. Junior Select Team to championships in the World Junior A Challenge in 2013 and as head coach and as assistant coach in 2012.
The Brasher Falls, New York, native served as an assistant coach in NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey first with Ferris State from 2002-2006 and then at the University of Denver from 2006-2011. He moved on to serve as head coach and general manager for the USHL’s Green Bay Gamblers from 2011-14 where he recorded an overall record of 114-56-8-6 and was named the USHL Coach of the Year in 2012 after helping the Gamblers earn the Clark Cup title.
In 2014, he assumed the role of head coach for the Toledo Walleye of the ECHL, earning the John Brophy Award as the league’s coach of the year in his debut season. The Walleye won back-to-back Brabham Cup trophies as ECHL regular season champions in Lalonde’s two years behind the Toledo bench, and finished with a 97-35-7-5 (W-L-T-OT/SOL) overall record. From 2016-18, he served as head coach of the AHL’s Iowa Wild, recording a 69-58-17-8 (W-L-T-OT/SOL) record in two seasons before joining the Lightning staff.
Lalonde's coaching career began as a graduate assistant men's ice hockey coach at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (formerly North Adams State) from 1995-98. He then started a two-year stint as an assistant men's ice hockey coach at Lebanon Valley College following by two seasons as an assistant men's ice hockey coach at Hamilton College.
A former goaltender in the NCAA Division III ranks with SUNY Cortland, Lalonde recorded a 3.93 goals-against average and .877 save percentage in 41 appearances for the Red Dragons from 1991-95.
Tim Leroy is serving as the equipment manager of the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team for the first time for the 2023-24 season.
Leroy joins Team USA after a 22-year stint as the head equipment manager of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, a position he held since the franchise's inception in 2000, until his departure in 2022.
Prior to joining Columbus, Leroy served on the Florida Panthers equipment staff from 1993-2000.
Leroy worked as an equipment manager for the International Hockey League's Kalamazoo Wings (1987-1990) and Kansas City Blades (1990-1993) prior to joining the Panthers.
