Gloucester, Massachusetts – Boston University Head Men’s Hockey Coach greg brown has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Spencer Penrose Award as Division I Men's Ice Hockey CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year. This is the first time Brown has won this award and the fourth Boston University head coach to receive the award. John “Snooks” Kelly was the winner in his 1959 and his 1972, and Lenczeglarski was the winner in his 1985.
Brown was named conference coach of the year this year and is the only coach to lead a team to the Frozen Four. His 33 wins are more than double his total from last season, his first year, and more than the past two seasons combined.
The top-seeded Eagles head into Thursday's Frozen Four semifinal against Michigan with a 33-5-1 record.
In his two seasons as the Eagles' head coach, he led Boston College to a 47-21-7 record and tied a program record with 33 wins so far in the 2023-24 season. This year, he led Boston University to the Hockey East regular season title for the 18th time in program history, finishing with a 20-3-1 record in league play and the first team since the Eagles in 2010 to win 20 games in the Hockey East. They were the first team to achieve this goal. 11.
Under Brown's guidance, the Eagles have produced four of the nation's six leading scorers. Will Smith (Lexington, Massachusetts) First of all, 69 points, cutter gautier (Scottsdale, Arizona) 2nd place with 64 points, ryan leonard (Amherst, Massachusetts) 5th place with 59 points, Gabe Perrault (Hinsdale, Illinois) 6th place with 57. jacob fowler (Melbourne, Florida) To date, he has won 31 games, setting an NCAA record for a freshman netminder.
Brown spent 14 seasons behind the Eagles bench as an assistant on former head coach Jerry York's staff from 2004 to 2018, leading the Heights to three national championships in 2008, 2010 and 2012. . After eight seasons as an assistant coach, he was promoted to associate head coach after the 2012 NCAA title, BC's third in five years.
In 14 years as an assistant at Boston College, Brown helped lead BC to six Hockey East Tournament Championships, seven Hockey East Regular Season Championships, 11 NCAA Tournament appearances and seven NCAA Frozen Four berths. did. Brown was also selected as an assistant coach for USA's three different IIHF World Junior Championship teams.
Brown, a former Boston College All-American defenseman, was named Schiller Family Head Hockey Coach on May 6, 2022, becoming the fifth head coach in B.C. men's hockey since 1932.
While at Boston University, Brown won back-to-back Hockey East Player of the Year awards in 1989 and 1990. Both years he was named to the All-American First Team and was also named a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award. In his three NCAA seasons, Brown had 24 goals and 96 assists for 120 points in 119 career games.
He captained the Eagles as a senior in 1989-1990, and the team won 28 games and reached the NCAA semifinals. At Boston College, he compiled an 84-33-5 (.709) record in three seasons at the Heights and won Hockey East championships in 1987 and 1990. He was selected to the U.S. Olympic team for the 1988 and Calgary Olympics as a sophomore. 1992 Albertville Olympics.
Brown was selected 26th overall in the 1986 NHL Draft by the Buffalo Sabers and played four seasons in the NHL with Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Winnipeg. He played eight more seasons of professional hockey in Europe before retiring in 2003 and returned to the Heights as an assistant coach at York in 2004.
The award will be presented at the 2024 AHCA Convention on Wednesday evening, May 1, at the Naples Grande Hotel in Naples, Florida.
Boston University Spencer Penrose Award Winner
1959: John “Snooks” Kelly
1972: John “Snooks” Kelly
1985: Len Cheglasky
2024: greg brown
