Greg Cronin is the current Assistant Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

. He was named to that position on June 20th, 2011

Cronin is a graduate of Colby College

Colby College

Colby College is a private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine. Founded in 1813, it is the 12th-oldest independent liberal arts college in the United States...

, class of 1986.

Coaching career

Cronin began his career as a graduate assistant at the University of Maine

University of Maine

The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

 from 1988-90, then as an assistant for Colorado College

Colorado College

The Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell...

 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

Shawn Walsh

William Shawn Walsh was the head ice hockey coach for the University of Maine Black Bears....

 from the bench for one year in 1995-96, leading the Black Bears to the Hockey East

Hockey East

Hockey East Association is a NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey conference which operates in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference....

 championship game in 1996 where they lost to Providence College

Providence College

Providence College is a private, coeducational, Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2010–2011 enrollment of 3,850 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the College specializes in academic...

, 3-2. Cronin spent time working with USA Hockey before joining the New York Islanders

New York Islanders

The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

 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

Bridgeport Sound Tigers

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. He coached the Sound Tigers for 2 seasons with great success, going 78-61-16-5.

Northeastern career

In 2005 Cronin replaced Bruce Crowder

Bruce Crowder

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 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

University of Vermont

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.

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

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

 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

University of Massachusetts

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 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.

On February 18, 2011, Northeastern announced Cronin would be suspended indefinitely due to possible recruitment violations.

On June 20, 2011, Greg Cronin was named an Assistant Coach to the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon is an American born professional hockey coach and former professional hockey goaltender. He is an assistant coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and a former head coach of the American Hockey League's Providence Bruins and the National Hockey League's New...

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

|Overall Record

Hockey East Hockey East Hockey East Association is a NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey conference which operates in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference.... Record

Beanpot Results

Maine University of Maine The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

1995–96

12

6

1

25

.658

8

4

1

17

3rd

.654

--

Maine University of Maine The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

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

Northeastern

2010-11

14

16

8

36

.474

10

10

7

27

6th

.500

2nd

Maine University of Maine The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System... Total

20

13

2

42

.600

11

10

2

24

--

.522

--

--

Northeastern Total

87

104

29

203

.463

63

75

26

154

--

.470

0 Beanpot championships

1 playoff appearance

Total*

107

117

31

245

.480

74

85

28

176

--

.471

0 Beanpot championships

1 playoff appearance

*Current as of March 14, 2011