Gene Reilly Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator First season at NU: 2004-05 Alma Mater: Elmira '86

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Gene Reilly enters his fourth season on the Northeastern men’s hockey staff in 2007-08 and his third season under head coach Greg Cronin. Reilly is Northeastern’s recruiting coordinator and has been largely responsible for Northeastern’s stellar recruiting classes over the last three seasons. Last year’s recruiting class included Hockey East All-Rookie selections Chad Costello and Brad Thiessen. The 2007-08 freshman class looks like another excellent group. When not on the road scouting talent, Reilly also assists in practice and game preparation. He has coaching experience on virtually every level of the game and has been a part of winning programs everywhere he has coached. “Gene Reilly is a dynamic individual who is capable of performing several important roles within the program,” said Cronin. “He is a proven recruiter and his knowledge of the game is outstanding as is evident in his contributions to a national championship at the University of Maine in 1999. Finally, his history as a coach in the American Hockey League is an attractive feature for a prospective college hockey player.” Reilly came to NU after a year as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Harvard under former Crimson coach Mark Mazzoleni. He helped Harvard win the 2004 ECAC tournament title and post an 18-15-3 record, including a 10-10-2 record in ECAC play. He worked specifically with the Crimson forwards and penalty kill. Before working at Harvard, Reilly spent two seasons in the Ottawa Senators organization. Reilly coached Ottawa prospects at Grand Rapids and Binghamton, both of the American Hockey League (AHL). As an assistant at Grand Rapids in 2001-02, Reilly helped direct the Griffins to a 42-27-11 record, win the AHL’s West Division title and earned a spot as an assistant coach for the AHL All-Star game. He was responsible for the development of forwards and directed the penalty kill. The following season at Binghamton, the Senators won the Eastern Conference East Division crown and advanced to the conference finals. Reilly was responsible for the development of defensemen, directed the penalty kill and did one-on-one instruction with the forwards on the ice and through video review. Prior to his work in the professional ranks, Reilly was an assistant coach at the University of Maine for three seasons, where he helped the Black Bears to the national championship and a record of 31-6-4 in 1999. In the 1999-2000 season, the Black Bears compiled a 27-8-5 record, won the Hockey East Championship and advanced to the Frozen Four. He was named interim head coach for a portion of the 2000-01 season while the late Shawn Walsh was away for medical reasons. Maine went 20-12-7 overall and 12-7-5 in Hockey East games that season. In Reilly’s three seasons, Maine never missed the NCAA Tournament and won seven hockey tournaments in addition to the NCAA Championship. Reilly began his coaching career in the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL), where he had an incredible record of 326-100-34 (276-79-31 as head coach) from 1988-98. A native of Springfield, Mass., he coached his hometown’s junior team, which underwent several name-changes, and was known as the Springfield Pics, Junior Whalers and Junior Coyotes over Reilly’s tenure. Reilly was also assistant general manager in his final five seasons. In Reilly’s last three seasons as Springfield’s head coach, his teams posted records of 43-4-4 (1995-96), 44-5-3 (1996-97) and 44-6-1 (1997-98) and won both the EJHL regular season and playoff championships as well as numerous other tournament titles. He was named EJHL Coach of the Year in 1998. Over 50 of Reilly’s junior hockey players went on to play at Division I universities or were drafted to play in the pros, including NHL All-Stars Bill Guerin and Scott Lachance, who were both first round draft picks. Reilly also coached Ron Hainsey, who was drafted by Montreal in the first round and played 80 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets last season. Reilly coached Dan LaCouture, who was a second-round draftee and has played 11 seasons in the NHL and Chris Clark, a third-round pick who had 54 points in 74 games as team captain of the Washington Capitals last season, his seventh in the NHL. Reilly also coached former NU standouts Billy Newson (1996-2000), Mike Veisor (1992-96) and Bob Kellogg (1989-93). Reilly helped coach the U.S. Under-17 team to gold medals in the Five Nations Tournament in the summer of 2002 in Slovakia and in 2003 in the Czech Republic. A 1986 graduate of Elmira College, Reilly was a four-year letter winner for the Soaring Eagles. He helped the team to a 74-36-1 record over his four years. He captained the team as a senior, leading Elmira to a No. 1 ranking, a 25-7-0 record and the Soaring Eagles made the NCAA Div. II Tournament quarterfinals that season. After graduating from Elmira, Reilly played for two seasons in Sweden with the Ange Ishockey Klubb. He was a player-coach his second season. Reilly resides in Boston.