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Grant Potulny coached Northern Michigan for seven seasons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grant Potulny stepped down as Northern Michigan coach to take a job in professional hockey, the school announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Athletic director Rick Comley, who won NCAA championships as coach of the Wildcats in 1991 and Michigan State in 2007, is the interim coach.<\/p>\n

Associate head coach Byron Pool and assistant coach Nick Peruzzi also resigned to take other coaching positions.<\/p>\n

Potulny had a 128-113-17 record in seven seasons at Northern Michigan<\/a>. It was his first college head coaching job after eight seasons as an assistant at Minnesota, where he won two NCAA championships in a playing career that stretched from 2000 to 2004.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats underwent a large-scale roster change after the 2023-24 season, with 14 players leaving via the transfer portal, according to a list maintained by Gopher Puck Live<\/a>. Their 2024 freshman signing class included three NHL draft picks — goalie Hampton Slukynsky and defensemen Rasmus Larsson and Vladislav Lukashevich.<\/p>\n

Comley has been Northern Michigan’s athletic director since 2022. It’s his second stint in the position; he also had the job from 1987 to 2000 while he was coaching.<\/p>\n

He’s fifth among NCAA men’s hockey coaches<\/a> with 783 victories in a head coaching career<\/a> that started at Lake Superior State in 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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