Team Canada Executive Director Steve Yzerman is expected to make it official Thursday morning at a news conference in Montreal.
Detroit's Babcock will be the head coach.
Hitchcock was an associate coach for Team Canada in 2002, when it won gold in Salt Lake City, and in
2006 in Turin, Italy, when Canada finished seventh. In addition, Hitchcock led Canada to a silver medal in the IIHF World Hockey Championship in Halifax last spring.
Ruff recently coached Canada to a silver medal at the World Championship in Switzerland. This will be the first Olympic experience for Lemaire.