Chris Wells (ice hockey coach)

Chris Wells born in 1968 in Canton, New York, is a hockey coach that has served as the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey team head coach. He is an alumi of St. Lawrence University. As a player he was a member of the 1992 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champion St. Lawrence Saints men's ice hockey team.
After graduating from St. Lawrence in 1992 he would play in Europe as a professional where he played for the Bracknell Bees and the Slough Jets. Upon retirement after the 1993-94 season he became an assitant coach at Colgate University where he stayed from 1994 to 1998. He then served as an men's assistant coach at Western Michigan University for the 1998-99 season and then returned to St. Lawrence in 1999 to become an assistant coach. He was name associate head coach of the men's team in January of 2003.
Following the 2007–08 season, Head Coach Paul Flanagan left St. Lawrence to a position with Syracuse University. Flanagan was, at the time, the women's program's all-time winningest coach with a nine-season record of 230–83–24. Then Men's Associate Head Coach, Chris Wells was appointed to replace him and in his first season coached the team to a berth in the national championship tournament with a record of 24–11–3.
He has a record of 259-202-67 at St. Lawrence as of the end of the 2022-23 playing season. He became the program's winningest head coach during the 2021-22 playing season.
==Playing Career==
Season 	Team 	Lge 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	PIM
1988-89	St. Lawrence University	ECAC	13	0 	0 	0 	6
1989-90	St. Lawrence University	ECAC	22	1 	2 	3 	6
1990-91	St. Lawrence University	ECAC	28	4 	11	15 	50
1991-92	St. Lawrence University	ECAC	33	15	21	36 	40
1993-94	Bracknell Bees 	BHL 	2 	1 	3 	4 	2
1993-94	Slough Jets 	BHL 	19	17	27	44 	12
==Head Coaching Year by year==
Won Championship	Lost Championship	Conference Champions	League Leader
Year 	Coach 	W 	L 	T	Conference	Conf. W	Conf. L	Conf. T	Finish 	Conference Tournament 	NCAA Tournament
2022-23	Chris Wells	17	19	3	ECAC 	10 	9 	3 	6th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipiac 	Did not qualify
2021-22	Chris Wells	15	15	7	ECAC 	10 	8 	4 	7th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Yale 	Did not qualify
2020–21	Chris Wells	6 	7 	0	ECAC 	5 	5 	0 	2nd ECAC	Won Semifinals vs. Clarkson Lost Championship vs. Colgate 	Did not qualify
2019–20	Chris Wells	13	16	7	ECAC 	8 	10 	4 	8th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Cornell 	Did not qualify
2018–19	Chris Wells	14	15	7	ECAC 	9 	7 	6 	5th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Princeton 	Did not qualify
2017–18	Chris Wells	20	11	4	ECAC 	14 	6 	2 	4th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipic Lost Semifinals vs. Clarkson 	Did not qualify
2016–17	Chris Wells	26	6 	4	ECAC 	16 	3 	3 	2nd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Yale (4–1, 4–0) Lost Semifinals vs. Cornell (3–1) 	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Boston College (6–0)
2015–16	Chris Wells	17	15	6	ECAC 	9 	8 	5 	6th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Princeton Lost Semifinals vs. Quinnipiac 	Did not qualify
2014–15	Chris Wells	19	12	5	ECAC 	13 	5 	4 	5th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Cornell 	Did not qualify
2013–14	Chris Wells	13	19	3	ECAC 	12 	7 	3 	5th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipiac 	Did not qualify
2012–13	Chris Wells	19	14	5	ECAC 	12 	6 	4 	5th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipiac Lost Semifinals vs. Cornell 	Did not qualify
2011–12	Chris Wells	24	10	4	ECAC 	14 	6 	2 	5th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Dartmouth Won Semifinals vs. Harvard Won Championship vs. Cornell	Lost First Round vs. Boston College
2010–11	Chris Wells	16	18	2	ECAC 	11 	11 	0 	7th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard 	Did not qualify
2009–10	Chris Wells	16	14	7	ECAC 	11 	8 	3 	7th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Clarkson 	Did not qualify
2008–09	Chris Wells	24	11	3	ECAC 	16 	5 	1 	2nd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Clarkson Lost Semifinals vs. Dartmouth 	Lost First Round vs. Mercyhurst
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