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June 5, 2007
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CALGARY – Hockey Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), announced Tuesday a second
Junior team coaching staff that will coach Canada at the Canada/Russia Super Series, an event which will also
serve to develop Canada’s National Junior Team for the 2008 IIHF World Junior Championship.
Brent Sutter (Red Deer, WHL), a two-time gold medal winner as head  coach of Canada’s National Junior Team, will be
the head coach of the Canadian team for the Canada/Russia Super Series, that will be held from August 27th to
September 9th. Peter DeBoer (Kitchener, OHL) and Benoit Groulx (Gatineau, QMJHL) will join Sutter behind the
Canadian bench as assistant coaches for the Canada/ Russia Super Series.
Hockey Canada and the CHL announced on May 29th that Craig Hartsburg (Sault Ste. Marie, OHL) will return
as head coach of Canada’s National Junior Team for the 2008 IIHF World Junior Championship, to be held in
Pardubice and Liberec, Czech Republic. Assistant coaches Curtis Hunt (Regina, WHL) and Clément Jodoin
(Rimouski, QMJHL) will also be joining Hartsburg again for the 2008 World Juniors.
In his capacity as Head Coach of Canada’s National Junior Team, Hartsburg will be actively involved in the
preparation and the evaluation of Canada’s team for the Super Series, working closely with Sutter and his
staff, along with Hockey Canada’s  Head Scout Jim Hammett.
With the advent of the Canada/Russia Super Series, Hockey Canada previously announced that it will not
hold its annual National Junior Team summer development camp this year, which usually runs in early August.
Canada’s roster for the Super Series will be announced by the end of June.
The Canada/Russia Super Series, a one-time eight-game series featuring the best Under-20 players from
Canada and Russia, will take place from August 27th to September 9th, with the first four games to be held in
Russia, and the final four to be held in Canadian cities. Canadian locations and ticket information will be
announced by the end of June.
Brent Sutter, a native of Viking, AB, is one of the most successful coaches in the history of Hockey
Canada’s Program of Excellence, leading the National Junior Team to gold medals, and perfect 7-0 records, at
the 2005 IIHF World Junior Championship in  Grand Forks, North Dakota and the 2006
IIHF World Junior Championship in Vancouver, BC.
An 18-year NHL veteran and two-time Stanley Cup champion with the New York Islanders (1982, 1983), Sutter
was also successful on the international stage as a player, winning three Canada Cups (1984, 1987, 1991) and
a bronze medal at the 1986 IIHF World Hockey Championship. The long-time head coach and general manager of
the Red Deer Rebels, Sutter’s best season came in 2000-01, when his Rebels won the WHL championship and
Memorial Cup, and Sutter was named the WHL and CHL Coach of the Year.
Peter DeBoer, head coach of the Kitchener Rangers for the past six seasons, has twice been an assistant
coach at the IIHF World Junior Championship, winning a gold medal alongside Sutter in 2005, and finishing 8th
in 1998.
Benoit Groulx, who has been the head coach of the Gatineau Olympiques since midway through the 2001-02
season, was an assistant coach for Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team at the 2004 Junior World Cup,
winning a gold medal.
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