As it was last offseason, the college hockey coaching carousel seems to be turning quickly again. With Maine searching for a new permanent head coach and Quinnipiac and Vermont seeking an assistant, news trickled out that Dartmouth is losing Stavros Paskaris from its coaching staff. Paskaris was hired last summer to be an assistant coach...
As it was last offseason, the college hockey coaching carousel seems to be turning quickly again. With Maine searching for a new permanent head coach and Quinnipiac and Vermont seeking an assistant, news trickled out that Dartmouth is losing Stavros Paskaris from its coaching staff.
Paskaris was hired last summer to be an assistant coach for first-year bench boss Reid Cashman. As it turns out, Paskaris will never coach in a game for the Big Green. The 2008 Wayne State alum is taking an assistant position at Bowling Green. He’ll join head coach Ty Eigner’s staff that also includes former Merrimack associate head coach Curtis Carr.
Paskaris, 36, spent six seasons as an assistant at Princeton before joining the Dartmouth staff last summer. Prior to Princeton, he was an assistant coach at Adrian College from 2009 to 2014. Paskaris played collegiately at Wayne State, a now-defunct Division 1 program.
With Paskaris set to move on to BGSU, that leaves several Division 1 programs in New England in search of a new assistant coach. After Holy Cross hired Bill Riga, Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold was down an assistant. Vermont is looking to replace Jeff Hill, who took a job in Europe. While not directly involving New England, Union and Canisius are in need of new assistants as well. There are candidates from this region reportedly interested in those openings.
According to industry sources, Maine is likely to name a successor to Red Gendron in the coming days. Interim Maine head coach Ben Guite, UMass associate head coach Ben Barr and Quinnipiac associate head coach Joe Dumais are the favorites to land the top gig in Orono.
Vermont has interviewed a number of candidates from across the hockey landscape. It is not known when head coach Todd Woodcroft will make up his mind on his next assistant coach.
