Congrats to Dave on being selected to coach Team Canada.
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Hockey Canada announced Wednesday that Calgary Hitmen coach and former NHL player Dave Lowry will be behind the bench for Canada's National Men's Summer Team for the 2009 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka in August.
This year's tournament is being held in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from August 11-15.
Lowry led the WHL's Hitmen to a 59-9-3-1 regular-season record and a berth in the WHL final this month against the Kelowna Rockets.
He has worked four seasons with Calgary, and this past campaign was his first as the team's head coach. Lowry, 44, played over 1,000 games in the NHL with five teams, serving as the Calgary Flames' captain from 2000 to 2002.
Hockey Canada also announced that Oshawa Generals head coach and GM Chris DePiero and Kootenay Ice head coach Mark Holick will join Lowry as assistant coaches, and that former NHL netminder Ron Tugnutt will be joining the staff as a goaltending consultant.
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