Don Granato
Don Granato is an American ice hockey coach and former ice hockey player. Granato was head coach of the Green Bay Gamblers and Wisconsin Capitols of the United States Hockey League from 1993 to 1997, where he led the Gamblers to the league finals. He was then hired by the Columbus Chill of the East Coast Hockey League in 1997 and then Peoria Rivermen in 1999. He won the Kelly Cup as a coach in 2000 with the Peoria Rivermen and was then promoted to head coach of the Worcester IceCats in the American Hockey League. During the 2000–01 AHL season, Granato won the Louis A. R. Pieri Memorial Award as the outstanding coach of the AHL. After five seasons with the IceCats, he was promoted to an assistant coach with their National Hockey League affiliate, the St. Louis Blues. In 2008, he became head coach of the Chicago Wolves in the AHL but was released in 2009 after seven games.
From 2013 to 2016, he was head coach of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program. In March 2016, Granato assumed an assistant coaching position under his brother, Tony, with the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team. On June 15, he became an assistant coach, along with Ulf Samuelsson, under Joel Quenneville of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks.
As of 2019, he is an assistant coach with the Buffalo Sabres.
He is the brother of Cammi and Tony, and the brother-in-law of Ray Ferraro.
