Ron Wilson was named the coach of the 2016 United States National Junior Team on Thursday.
The 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship will take place Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Helsinki, Finland. The United States has earned a medal at the World Junior Championship in four of the past seven years, and won gold in 2010 and 2013.
Wilson has previously coached for the United States at three different tournaments, first guiding them to a bronze medal at the IIHF World Championship in 1996. Wilson then coached the United States at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, losing to the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals and not medaling.