{"id":22893,"date":"2000-09-29T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2000-09-29T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2000\/09\/29\/mallen-lands-at-umassboston\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:53:56","slug":"mallen-lands-at-umassboston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2000\/09\/29\/mallen-lands-at-umassboston\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallen Lands at UMass-Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former UMass-Amherst coach Joe Mallen was named head coach at UMass-Boston today. Mallen, who coached the Beacons in the early ’80s, returns to where his collegiate head coaching career began.<\/p>\n
Mallen was at Amherst for the past seven seasons, before being fired in March<\/a>. He was replaced by Don Cahoon<\/a>. He is the winningest coach in UMass-Boston history with an 80-46-2 (.633) mark in five seasons.<\/p>\n “This is a great opportunity to return to a place where I’ve experienced a lot of success,” said Mallen. “I’m fortunate to have the chance to stay within the University of Massachusetts educational family, and to be able to return to the community where I grew up.<\/p>\n “I feel very comfortable here. I started the program here and this is home to me. I want area players to feel that UMass-Boston is not only a place where they can get an excellent education, but also a place where they can be part of a great hockey program.”<\/p>\n Mallen, 44, was 77-144-18 in his seven seasons in Amherst. He won an ECAC Division III championship in 1981-82 when he led UMass Boston to a 24-3 record. The Beacons made the transition to Division II in 1982-83, and advanced to the ECAC Division II playoffs the following season.<\/p>\n In between his head coaching stints, Mallen was an assistant at U.S. International, and an assistant at Boston College for seven seasons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former UMass-Amherst coach Joe Mallen has been named head coach at UMass-Boston. Mallen, who coached the Beacons in the early ’80s, returns to where his collegiate head coaching career began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n