Owen Sound Attack Athletic Therapist Andy Brown will be representing Canada for the third straight year at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ottawa.
Hockey Canada announced the coaching and support staff today.
Brown says in a statement, “It’s an incredible honour to represent Canada with our World Junior program,” adding, “I’m very thankful for the opportunity to work with our country’s best junior players and for the ongoing support from my family and from the Owen Sound Attack.”
According to the Owen Sound Attack, Brown has had a successful tenure with Hockey Canada programs, representing Canada at the World U17 Hockey Challenge in 2006 and 2017, the IIHF Ice Hockey Under-18 World Championships in 2019 and IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships in 2023. He has also won gold with team Canada four times, completing the Hlinka hat trick with gold medal wins at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in 2009 and 2017 and Hlinka Gretzky Cup in 2018 and World Junior gold in 2023.
Canada’s National Junior Team will gather at the WFCU Centre in Windsor, Ontario, for a four-day training camp, July 28-31, which includes practices, a Red-White game on July 30 at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT and a game against Sweden on July 31 at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT.