Syracuse HC Paul Flanagan Retires After 14 Years

[Scott_TG]

Syracuse's only head coach in their 14-year history has retired. Paul Flanagan has retired with a 434-308-73 record. Flanagan has two CHA conference championship wins with the Orange.

Prior to his long tenure in Syracuse, Flanagan was the head coach at St. Lawrence where he coached the Saints to six NCAA tournament berths which saw four Frozen Four appearances including a championship game appearance against UMD despite never winning a conference championship tournament with that program.

Brendon Knight, the associate head coach of the Orange who has been with the program for 10 years, has been named Interim Head Coach. I'm not sure if Syracuse will look seriously beyond Knight, especially given Flanagan publicly crediting Knight with the program's recent success (2 CHA championships in 4 seasons).

Any thoughts of outside candidates if they don't go with Knight?

https://www.si.com/college/syracuse/...ces-retirement

 

[ARM]

I wonder if Flanagan had it to do over, if he would have stayed at SLU? Although I seem to remember that there were family reasons why the move to Syracuse was a better fit. Anyway, best wishes to him in whatever he does in retirement.

At the time, the rumor mill had Shannon Miller leaving UMD to take the initial Syracuse job. I imagine the history of Syracuse and the CHA overall would look different if that had happened, for better or worse.