The Chicago Blackhawks have landed the next steward of their rebuild in Jeff Blashill.

The former Detroit Red Wings coach, who spent the last three seasons as an assistant on Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper’s staff, has been named the 42nd head coach in Hawks history.

“Jeff is an incredibly smart and talented coach who boasts more than 25 years of coaching experience across developmental leagues, the NHL and the world stage,” general manager Kyle Davidson said in a team statement. “He’s thrived when in a position to develop young players and has shown he’s capable of blending that into overall team success, a vision and philosophy we share for where we are today and where we see our team in the future.”

After hiring two first-time coaches in Jeremy Colliton and Luke Richardson — mixed in with interim coaches Derek King and Anders Sörensen — the Hawks opted for a candidate with experience at the NHL level but who also has developmental background in college, the AHL and USA Hockey.

He has worked with Tyler Bertuzzi and Andreas Athanasiou with both the Red Wings and Grand Rapids Griffins, as well as Joe Veleno.

Blashill, 51, will take over from interim coach Sörensen, who will remain with the organization. Sörensen replaced Richardson, who was fired Dec. 5.

While Blashill was on Cooper’s staff, the Lightning made first-round playoff exits in each of the last three seasons.

Blashill got his start in coaching in 1999 as a college assistant at Ferris State and then at Miami (Ohio) from 2002-08.

His first head coaching job was with the USHL’s Indiana Ice, who won the 2008-09 championship. Two seasons later Blashill became head coach at Western Michigan.

He joined Mike Babcock’s Red Wings staff as an assistant in 2011, then was hired as head coach of the Griffins, the Red Wings’ AHL affiliate, in June 2012.Then-Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said at the time: “He’s a talented coach that has a proven track record of working well with young players.”

Blashill won a title in his first season and made the playoffs all three seasons with Grand Rapids. He received the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award (head coach of the year) for the 2013-14 season.

He was named head coach of the Red Wings in May 2015 after the Toronto Maple Leafs lured Babcock out of Detroit with an eight-year, $50 million deal, the NHL’s richest contract for a coach at the time. It opened the door for Blashill, who was viewed as the heir apparent.

“He was really the only candidate,” Holland said then.

The Red Wings made the playoffs in Blashill’s first season (41-30-11, .567 points percentage) but finished short of the postseason the next six years before general manager Steve Yzerman fired Blashill in April 2022. He compiled a 204-261-72 record in 537 games.

“Ultimately to take that decision, I felt our team fundamentally, that we kind of — I don’t even know if plateaued is the right word,” Yzerman said at the time, according to the Detroit Free Press. “But we had gotten to a point where fundamentally, with and without the puck, we had regressed.”

During Blashill’s time with the Wings, he was head coach of the U.S. team in the IIHF World Championships in 2017, ‘18 and 19 and returned as an assistant coach in 2022. In 2018, he led the Americans to bronze with a team that featured then-Hawks Connor Murphy, Jordan Oesterle, Alex DeBrincat and tournament MVP Patrick Kane.

A Detroit native and former goalie at Ferris State and in the USHL, Blashill and wife Erica have three children: Teddy, Josie and Owen.

Blashill and Davidson are scheduled to address the media Tuesday afternoon at the United Center.