St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong will be Canada’s GM for the men’s hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, Hockey Canada announced Friday.
Armstrong also will oversee Team Canada at the 2024 and ’25 world championships and the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off, Hockey Canada added.
Armstrong has worked within the management group for various Canadian international teams in the past. Most notably, he served as an assistant GM for the gold-medal-winning Olympic squads in 2010 and 2014, and GM for the gold-medal-winning World Cup team in 2016.
Armstrong was tabbed to lead the 2022 Olympic team before the NHL pulled out of the event.
The NHL and NHLPA announced the league’s players would return to the Olympics in 2026 last month at the NHL All-Star Game in Toronto.
Hockey Canada also announced that Ryan Getzlaf will serve as player relations adviser.
Hockey Canada executives Scott Salmond, Katherine Henderson and Pat McLaughlin will join Armstrong and Getzlaf on an executive committee leading up to the 2026 Olympics.
Armstrong is in his 14th season as GM of the Blues, who won the Stanley Cup under his watch in 2019.