Former Ferris State University men's ice hockey assistant coach Derek Lalonde, who is currently the head coach of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Detroit Red Wings, has been tabbed as an assistant coach for the 2024 United States Men's National Team.

The U.S. Men's National Team will compete in the 2024 IIHF Men's World Championships set for May 10-26 in Ostrava and Prague, Czechia. All United States games in the world championship will be broadcast on the NHL Network.

Lalonde will serve as an assistant coach on the staff of head coach John Hynes of the Minnesota Wild.

Lalonde, who recently finished his second season as head coach of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, will serve as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's National Team for the second-straight year. Lalonde has been involved with Team USA on the international stage on two other occasions, helping the U.S. Junior Select Team to championships in the World Junior A Challenge in 2013 as head coach and as assistant coach in 2012.

Lalonde arrived in Detroit after spending four seasons (2018-22) as an assistant coach for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning where he helped the team earn Stanley Cup titles in 2020 and 2021.

The Brasher Falls, New York, native served as an assistant coach in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey first with Ferris State from 2002-2006 and then at the University of Denver from 2006-2011. He moved on to serve as head coach and general manager for the USHL's Green Bay Gamblers from 2011-14 where he recorded an overall record of 114-56-8-6 and was named the USHL Coach of the Year in 2012 after helping the Gamblers earn the Clark Cup title.

Lalonde spent two seasons (2014-16) as the head coach of the Toledo Walleye of the ECHL and earned the John Brophy Award as the league's coach of the year in his first campaign.

From 2016-18 he was the head coach of the AHL's Iowa Wild before moving to Tampa.

Lalonde's coaching career began as a graduate assistant men's ice hockey coach at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (formerly North Adams State) from 1995-98. He then had a two-year stint as an assistant men's ice hockey coach at Lebanon Valley College followed by two seasons as an assistant men's ice hockey coach at Hamilton College.

During his tenure on the Bulldog staff from 2002-26, Lalonde helped Ferris State claim the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) Championship during a memorable 2002-03 campaign on the Bulldog bench under FSU head coach Bob Daniels and has remained an ambassador for Ferris State Hockey since his days in Big Rapids.