Vancouver Giants Head Coach Michael Dyck can add another international medal to his collection.

On Sunday, June 6, Team Canada earned a gold medal at the IIHF World Hockey Championships following a 3-2 overtime victory against Finland. The tournament took place in Riga, Latvia and began on May 21st.

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When his appointment as assistant coach was announced in May, Dyck called it an 鈥渋ncredible honour,鈥� adding 鈥淚鈥檓 looking forward to helping coach some of the very best players in Canada as we look to bring a gold medal home from Latvia.鈥�

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Dyck most recently won a silver medal as an assistant coach with Team Canada at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship.

He has served as head coach of the 91原创-based Giants since 2018.

In three seasons behind the bench of the Vancouver Giants, he has led the team to an overall regular season record of 92-49-11. For his entire WHL coaching career, Michael Dyck is 224-169-27 as a head coach.

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Canada began the tournament with three straight losses before finishing 3-3-1 in the preliminary round. Were it not for a 2-1 regulation victory for Germany over Latvia on June 1st, Canada would not have advanced to the quarterfinals.

From there, Canada caught fire, earning a 2-1 overtime victory over Russia in the quarterfinals on June 3rd, and then a 4-2 victory over the United States yesterday in the semi-finals, before clinching their gold medal today.

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Today鈥檚 gold medal marks the 27th in Canada鈥檚 history at the IIHF World Hockey Championship tournament.