Young Named to U.S. Men's Olympic Coaching Staff
January 6, 2022 | Men's Ice Hockey
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Former Boston University men's ice hockey player and assistant coach Scott Young will serve as an assistant coach on David Quinn's staff for the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, USA Hockey announced on Thursday.
This will be the second time that Young is serving as an assistant coach for a U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team after holding a similar role with the 2018 squad. Young, who was enshrined into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2017, is in his fifth year as the director of player development for the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins.
Prior to his role with the Penguins, he was an assistant coach at BU for two seasons (2015-17) after serving as the Terriers' director of men's ice hockey operations in 2014-15. Young, who retired as an NHL player in 2006, was the head coach at St. Mark's School, his alma mater, for four seasons (2010-2014).
Young's international playing career spanned from 1985 through 2002. He is one of only 12 U.S.-born men's hockey players to compete in three Olympic Winter Games (1988, 1992, 2002). He also played for the U.S. in three IIHF World Junior Championships, helping Team USA to its first-ever medal at the event in 1986 and went on to serve as team captain the following year. Young also played for Team USA in three IIHF Men's World Championships (1987, 1989, 1994) and played in one of the greatest moments in American hockey history as a member of the U.S. team that won the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
A native of Clinton, Mass., Young spent 17 seasons playing in the NHL, winning two Stanley Cup championships (1991-Pittsburgh, 1996-Colorado) while amassing 342 goals and 415 assists in 1,181 regular-season games. He ranks among the top-20 of American players all-time in NHL games played and goals.
