OHL Head Coach Joins Michigan Staff

July 22, 2026 CHN Staff Report Chris Lazary, head coach of the OHL's Saginaw Spirit since 2018, has been hired as a new assistant coach at Michigan. Lazary steps in for Rob Rassey, who left the staff earlier this month to become new head coach at Harvard. Lazary, 44, is an Ontario native, and has never coached or played in the NCAA. He was an assistant coach at York University for one season, 2012-13. Since then he has mainly been in the OHL, first as an assistant, before being named head coach at Saginaw in November 2018. Last season, Lazary...