COLORADO SPRINGS, USA – USA Hockey announced Tuesday that Scott Gordon will serve as head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team that will compete in the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Helsinki and Stockholm.

Gordon held the same position in 2010 and 2011.

In addition to his previous stints as head coach of U.S. Men's National Teams, Gordon was also an assistant coach on the silver medal-winning 2010 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team and served as an assistant coach of the 2009 U.S. Men's National Team.

Gordon also represented the United States as a goaltender on both the 1991 U.S. Men's National Team and the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team.

Gordon is currently an assistant coach for the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs. He was the head coach of the NHL's New York Islanders for parts of three seasons (2008-10). From late in the 2002-03 campaign through 2007-08 he led the AHL's Providence Bruins. In his final season in Providence, Gordon received the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award as the AHL's Coach of the Year in recognition of posting the AHL's best regular-season record at 55-18-3. Gordon was an assistant coach for Providence from 2000-01 until his promotion to head coach in 2002-03.

Additionally, Greg Cronin has been selected as an assistant coach. Cronin served in a similar capacity for the 1997 and 2011 U.S. Men's National Teams. An additional assistant coach will be named in the near future.

Cronin has also been an assistant coach for a pair of U.S. National Junior Teams (1997, 1998), earning a silver medal in 1997. His first Team USA coaching experience came in 1997-98 when he was the inaugural head coach of the Under-18 Team at USA Hockey's National Team Development Program.

Cronin's coaching career spans the NHL, AHL and NCAA. In 2011-12 he was an assistant coach for the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs. Previously, he spent five seasons as an assistant coach for the NHL's New York Islanders (1998-2003). His head coaching experience includes two seasons with the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers (2003-05) and six seasons at Northeastern University (2005-11). He was an assistant coach and an interim head coach the University of Maine (1988-90, '94-96) and also served as an assistant coach at Colorado College (1990-93).

The staff and players of the 2012 U.S. Men's National Team are selected by the U.S. Men's National Team Advisory Group, led by Jim Johannson, assistant executive director of hockey operations for USA Hockey. The group includes National Hockey League general managers Stan Bowman (Chicago), Brian Burke (Toronto), Paul Holmgren (Philadelphia), Dean Lombardi (Los Angeles), David Poile (Nashville), Ray Shero (Pittsburgh), Dale Tallon (Florida); and Pittsburgh Penguins pro scout Don Waddell.