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2023 HGC | Nick Oliver

Nick Oliver is serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 Men's Select Team for the second time at the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup after helping the 2023 U.S. Under-18 Men's Select Team to a third-place finish in the same role. 

Oliver previously helped guide Team USA to a second-place finish at the 2022 Five Nations Tournament and a third-place effort at the 2019 World Junior A Challenge

He is set to begin his second season as an assistant men’s ice hockey coach at the University of Wisconsin in 2024-25. Oliver spent the 2022-23 campaign as head coach of the USHL's Fargo Force. He led the team to its first Anderson Cup as USHL regular-season champion and earned honors as USHL Coach of the Year.

Prior to his time in North Dakota, he spent four years (2018-22) as an assistant men’s ice hockey coach at St. Cloud State University, where he helped the Huskies to their first-ever NCAA national championship game appearance in 2021 and to the Penrose Cup as NCHC regular-season champions in 2018-19. The Wannaska, Minnesota, native, played collegiately at St. Cloud State (2011-15) and has served as a USA Hockey National Player Development Camp coach on multiple occasions.