Mike Gilligan

Mike Gilligan
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Ice hockey
Born	Beverly, Massachusetts
Playing career
1967–1970 1971–1972 1972–1973	Salem State
Position(s)	Defenseman
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1975–1981	Salem State
1981–1983	Yale (Assistant)
1983–1984	Yale
1984–2003	Vermont
2003–2006	US Women's National Team (Assistant)
2006–2014	Vermont (Assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall	419-350-49
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
ECAC Hockey Regular Season Championship (1996)
Awards
1986 Salem State Athletic Hall of Fame 1988 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year 2005 John MacInnes Award 2008 Parker-York Award 2010 Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame

Medal record

Women's ice hockey
Competitor for the USA
Women's World Championships
	2005 Sweden
Olympics
	2006 Torino

Mike Gilligan is a retired American ice hockey coach. He was the head coach at Vermont from 1983 through 2003 and later became an assistant with the UVM women's team for seven more seasons before retiring in 2014.^[1]

Career

Playing

Mike Gilligan started as a defenseman for Salem State for three seasons, serving as captain and earning All-American honors in the final two^[2] before moving onto a brief minor league career in the early 1970s.^[3]

Coaching

Gilligan returned to Salem State in 1975 to serve as head coach for his alma mater. Playing in ECAC Hockey's now defunct Division II league, Salem State became a powerhouse under Gilligan, winning at least 20 games in each of his six seasons behind the bench. Their best finish came in 1979 when they finished 4th in the NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Championship.^[4] After the 1980-81 campaign Gilligan accepted an offer to serve as Tim Taylor's assistant at Yale. Two years later Taylor took a hiatus from the University to serve as an assistant for Team USA at the 1984 Winter Olympics, leaving the Bulldogs in the hands of Gilligan for the 1983–84 season. Gilligan acquitted himself by getting Yale to a 12-13-1 record^[5] and after the conclusion of the season was chosen to replace Jim Cross at Vermont^[2]

Gilligan's first season with the Catamounts was a disappointing, finishing with an 8-21-0 record, but by the end of his second season he had gotten them back on track, winning 17 games. over the next 12 seasons Vermont would post winning records 10 times and made their first NCAA tournament berth in 1988.^[6] Gillian's best season came in 1995–96 when he won Vermont's it's only Regular Season Championship with a 27-win season and saw the Catamounts make the Frozen Four for the first time, finishing 3rd in the 1996 tournament behind the strong play of future NHLers Martin St. Louis and Tim Thomas.^[7]

In the 1999–00 season both Gilligan and Vermont were tarnished as a result of a hazing scandal that caused the University to cancel its season after only seventeen games^[8] and while it did not lead to Gilligan's dismissal he would never again field a winning team, resigning from his post after the 2002–03 season, one win shy of the school record.^[9]

Women's Teams

After leaving Vermont Gilligan became an assistant for the US Women's National Team for over two years, helping the team to win gold at the 2005 IIHF Women's World Championship and bronze at Torino the following year.^[2] Gilligan returned to Vermont in the fall of 2006 as an assistant for the women's team and remained in that position until his retirement in 2014.^[1]

Honors

Gilligan was inducted into the Salem State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986^[2] and was co-ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year with Bill Cleary two years later.^[10] After retiring as head coach Gilligan was named the 2005 recipient of the John MacInnes Award,^[11] the 2008 recipient of the Parker-York Award^[2] and was inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey hall of Fame in 2010^[12]

College Head Coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Salem State Vikings (ECAC Hockey Division II) (1975-76–1980-81)
1975-76	Salem State	21-6-0
1976-77	Salem State	22-5-0
1977-78	Salem State	21-8-0
1978-79	Salem State	23-11-1			NCAA Division II Fourth Place
1979-80	Salem State	21-8-0
1980-81	Salem State	20-10-1
Salem State:		128-48-2
Yale (ECAC Hockey) (1983-84–1983-84)
1983-84	Yale	12-13-1	10-10-1	t-9th
Yale:		12-13-1	10-10-1
Vermont (ECAC Hockey) (1984-85–2002-03)
1984-85	Vermont	8-21-0	4-17-0	10th
1985-86	Vermont	17-13-1	11-10-0	6th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1986-87	Vermont	18-14-0	9-13-0	6th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1987-88	Vermont	21-11-3	14-7-1	4th	NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
1988-89	Vermont	20-13-1	13-9-0	t-5th	ECAC Runner-Up
1989-90	Vermont	9-20-2	7-13-2	9th	ECAC First Round
1990-91	Vermont	17-14-2	12-8-2	6th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1991-92	Vermont	16-12-3	10-9-3	7th	ECAC Preliminary Round
1992-93	Vermont	12-16-3	10-11-1	7th	ECAC Preliminary Round
1993-94	Vermont	15-12-6	10-6-6	5th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1994-95	Vermont	19-14-2	11-9-2	5th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1995-96	Vermont	27-7-4	17-2-3	1st	NCAA Frozen Four
1996-97	Vermont	22-11-3	13-6-3	3rd	NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
1997-98	Vermont	10-20-4	7-11-4	t-9th	ECAC First Round
1998-99	Vermont	13-18-2	7-13-2	9th	ECAC First Round
1999-00	Vermont	5-9-3	3-2-2	12th*	Ineligible
2000-01	Vermont	14-18-2	8-12-2	10th	ECAC Four vs. Five
2001-02	Vermont	3-26-2	3-18-1	12th
2002-03	Vermont	13-20-3	8-14-0	10th	ECAC Quarterfinals
Vermont:		279-289-46	177-190-34
Total:		419-350-49
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

1 2 "Send Mike Gilligan Your Best for Keepsake Book as He Retires". Vermont Catamounts. 2014-06-02. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
1 2 3 4 5 "Staff Directory: Mike Gilligan". Vermont Catamounts. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Mike Gilligan". Hockey DB. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Mike Gilligan Year-By-Year Coaching Record". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Yale Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
↑ "Vermont Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "NCAA Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Vermont Cancels season in Player Hazing Scandal". The New York Times. 2000-01-15. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
↑ "Vermont's Gilligan Retires". USCHO.com. 2005-05-16. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "ECAC Hockey Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Gilligan Wins 2005 MacInnes Award". USCHO.com. 2005-01-26. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Mike Gilligan Inducted Into The Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame". Vermont Catamounts. 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2014-07-09.

External links

Mike Gilligan's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Tim Taylor	Tim Taylor Award 1987–88 Shared With Bill Cleary	Succeeded by Joe Marsh

Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey

Venues

Ingalls Rink (1958–present)

Head coaches

Talbot Hunter (1919–20)
Francis Bangs (1920–21)
Clarence Wanamaker (1921–28)
Lawrence Noble (1928–30)
Holcomb York (1930–38)
Murray Murdoch (1938–65)
Richard Gagliardi (1965–72)
Paul Lufkin (1972–76)
Tim Taylor (1976–83, 1984–93, 1994–2006)
Mike Gilligan (1983–84)
Daniel Poliziani (1993–94)
Keith Allain (2006–present)

Seasons

1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Bold denotes National Championship season

Conference affiliations

ECAC Hockey (1961–present)

Rivalries

National championships

2013

Frozen Four appearances

1952
2013

NCAA Tournament appearances

Conference Tournament champions

ECAC: 2009
2011

Vermont Catamounts men's ice hockey

Playing venues	Gutterson Fieldhouse (1963-present)

Head coaches	Bill Ruffer (1963–1965) Jim Cross (1965–1984) Mike Gilligan (1984–2003) Kevin Sneddon (2003–present)

Seasons	2014–15

Conference affiliations	ECAC Division II (1964-1974) ECAC Hockey (Division I) (1963-1964, 1974-2005) Hockey East (2005-present)

Rivalries	Dartmouth

Culture & lore	Catamount Cup

All-time leaders	Martin St. Louis (267 Points) Éric Perrin (107 Goals) Tim Thomas (81 Wins)

Frozen Four appearances	1996 2009

NCAA Tournament appearances	1988 1996 1997 2009 2010 2014

Notable Players	John LeClair Aaron Miller Martin St. Louis Tim Thomas Éric Perrin Patrick Sharp Viktor Stålberg Torrey Mitchell

University of Vermont Burlington, VT

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