Greg Cronin

Greg Cronin is the current head coach of the men's hockey team at Northeastern University. The 2009-10 hockey season is Cronin's 5th at Northeastern.
Cronin is a graduate of Colby College, class of 1986.
==Coaching career==
Cronin began his career as a graduate assistant at the University of Maine from 1988-90, then as an assistant for Colorado College from 1990-93. He returned to Maine to be an assistant coach from 1993-95 and was named interim head coach following a scandal that banished head coach Shawn Walsh from the bench for one year in 1995-96, leading the Black Bears to the Hockey East championship game in 1996 where they lost to Providence College, 3-2. Cronin spent time working with USA Hockey before joining the New York Islanders in 1998. He served as an assistant coach with the Islanders for 5 seasons before being named head coach of their minor league affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. He coached the Sound Tigers for 2 seasons with great success, going 78-61-16-5.
===Northeastern career===
In 2005 Cronin replaced Bruce Crowder as head coach of the Northeastern Huskies men's hockey team. Cronin inherited a team that graduated almost all of their key players from a 15-18-5 team and had little hope of competing in the short term. The team went 3-24-7 in 2005-06 before posting a 13-18-5 record the following year behind the development of many of Cronin's recruits. The team further improved to 16-18-3 in 2007-08, winning their first playoff game in years in the 2-1 series loss to the University of Vermont.
The Huskies opened the 2008-09 season expected to contend for home ice advantage in Hockey East (4th place or better) for the first time since 1997-98. The Huskies went 23-9-4 in the regular season, leading the conference until the final day when they lost at Boston College 4-1, falling to second place in Hockey East in the process. Season highlights included Northeastern's first sweep of Maine in 25 years, a win over Boston College in the Beanpot for the first time since 1994, and winning 2 of 3 games against both of the previous season's Hockey East Finalists, Vermont and Boston College. The Huskies opened the postseason by defeating the University of Massachusetts in the Hockey East Quarterfinals at Matthews Arena, 2 games to 1, with the 3rd game being won in overtime on a goal by freshman Alex Tuckerman.
==Personal==
Cronin lives in Boston, and he has many family connections at Northeastern. His father, Don, and his uncle, Jerry, both played hockey for the Huskies in the 1950s and 1960s, and his cousin Kerry played for the women's teams from 1983-86, winning three Beanpots.
==Coaching Record==
Team 	Year 	Overall Record	Overall Record	Overall Record	Overall Record	Overall Record	Hockey East Record	Hockey East Record	Hockey East Record	Hockey East Record	Hockey East Record	Hockey East Record	Beanpot Results	Post Season
Team 	Year 	W 	L 	T 	Pts 	Win % 	W 	L 	T 	Pts 	Finish 	Win % 	Beanpot Results	Post Season
Maine 	1995–96 	12 	6 	1 	25 	.658 	8 	4 	1 	17 	3rd 	.654 	-- 	--
Maine 	1996–97 	8 	7 	1 	17 	.531 	3 	6 	1 	7 	3rd 	.350 	-- 	--
Northeastern 	2005–06 	3 	24 	7 	13 	.191 	3 	17 	7 	13 	9th 	.241 	4th 	--
Northeastern 	2006–07 	13 	18 	5 	31 	.431 	9 	15 	5 	23 	7th 	.426 	3rd 	--
Northeastern 	2007–08 	16 	18 	3 	35 	.473 	12 	13 	2 	26 	6th 	.481 	4th 	--
Northeastern 	2008–09 	25 	12 	4 	54 	.659 	18 	6 	3 	39 	2nd 	.722 	2nd 	NCAA Tournament First Round
Northeastern 	2009–10 	16 	16 	2 	34 	.500 	11 	14 	2 	24 	9th 	.444 	3rd 	
Maine Total 	Maine Total 	20 	13 	2 	42 	.600 	11 	10 	2 	24 	-- 	.522 	-- 	--
Northeastern Total	Northeastern Total	73 	88 	21 	-- 	-- 	53 	65 	19 	125 	-- 	-- 	-- 	--
Total* 	Total* 	93 	101 	23 	209 	-- 	64 	75 	21 	149 	-- 	-- 	0 wins 	1 playoff appearance
*Current as of March 8, 2010 at 11:00 EST
==References==
* NU Men's hockey web site
* Coaching record, uscho.com
Category:American ice hockey coaches
Category:Maine Black Bears coaches
Category:Northeastern Huskies coaches