Michaud oversees Canada’s junior hockey team goalies two decades after he was one
Olivier Michaud’s got some stories to tell the three goaltenders on the Canadian junior men’s hockey team.
Two decades after he tended Canada’s goal in the 2002 world under-20 hockey championship in Hradec Kralove and Pardubice, Czech Republic, he’s the goaltending coach of the 2022 edition.
“I remember pretty much everything,” Michaud told The Canadian Press. “Even if it was 20 years ago, it was my first and, until this year, my only world juniors.”
Not answering the phone in his hotel room during selection camp for fear he would be told he’d been cut from the team, beating out two other goaltenders to join Pascal Leclaire on the Canadian squad, warming up for the first game against France on Christmas Day in Hradec Kralove’s frigid arena, and Russia’s Alexander Svitov spitting on Canada’s Brian Sutherby during a round-robin game are among Michaud’s memories now more vivid because of his job on the current squad.