Nobles has its next boys hockey head coach. On Sunday, the school announced that Dan McGoff will take over as head coach starting in the 2025-26 season. "Dan was the clear choice to lead this important Nobles program into the future," Head of School Catherine Hall and athletic director Alex Gallagher said in a joint statement....
Nobles has its next boys hockey head coach. On Sunday, the school announced that Dan McGoff will take over as head coach starting in the 2025-26 season.
"Dan was the clear choice to lead this important Nobles program into the future," Head of School Catherine Hall and athletic director Alex Gallagher said in a joint statement. "His deep dedication to both Nobles and the game of hockey is matched by his exceptional talent and success as a player and coach."
McGoff has served as an assistant on former head coach Brian Day's staff for the last 12 seasons, beginning in 2013. Day retired from coaching after this past season.
McGoff, a Charlestown, Mass., native, played at Nobles as a defenseman from 2000-04. He followed that up with a four-year stint playing at Boston University, notching five goals and 10 points.
In 2008-09, he played for the Trenton Devils and Stockton Thunder in the ECHL and spent some time with the New Mexico Scorpions and Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees in the CHL. He played two seasons in the Netherlands and one in the EIHL in the United Kingdom before retiring from playing.
Nobles is coming off a stellar 18-8-1 season, in which it was the No. 8 seed in the Elite 8 Tournament and bowed out in the quarterfinals. The Bulldogs got outstanding offensive performances from junior Brown commit Billy MacAusland (Westwood, Mass.) and senior Yale commit Kyle O'Leary (Medfield, Mass.), along with encouraging play from freshman goalie Justin Lee (Wellesley, Mass.), an '09, in net.
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On defense, Nobles is projected to graduate only Lou Munger (Dedham, Mass.). The rest of the defensive core should be back.
While the Bulldogs will lose quite a bit of offense this offseason to graduation, their defense, paired with Lee, should be McGoff's team's biggest strength in a difficult ISL.
