Dan Henningson has joined the Princeton males’s hockey group as an assistant coach.
Henningson replaces assistant coach Tommy Davis, who has stepped away from collegiate teaching to pursue different skilled alternatives.
“I’m excited to welcome Dan to the Princeton hockey teaching employees,” Tigers head coach Ben Syer mentioned in a press release. “I’ve watched him develop as a hockey thoughts from his time as a recruit, via his taking part in days contained in the ECAC and as knowledgeable, and over the previous 13 years as a coach. He’s received a ardour for teaching and instructing the sport and connects with the present participant at an elite degree. He’s no stranger to New Jersey’s hockey scene and can rapidly acclimate to his new position on our teaching employees and inside our college.
“I’m grateful to Tommy Davis for his one yr on employees with me, and I do know I communicate for everybody with Princeton hockey after I thank him for his dedication to his alma mater over the previous six years as a coach. I want him and his household properly, and I do know they may nonetheless be a constant presence at Baker Rink and can all the time have a house with our group.”
Henningson and Syer’s relationship goes again virtually twenty years as Henningson was recruited by Syer whereas on employees at Quinnipiac. A gentle, two-way defenseman, Henningson appeared in 150 video games for the Bobcats from 2005 to 2009, recording 67 factors (12 targets, 55 assists). He was twice named group MVP and served as an alternate captain his junior yr and group captain his senior yr. Following the Bobcats’ 2008-09 season, Henningson signed an ATO with Colorado’s AHL affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters. On the time, he was the fifth Quinnipiac hockey participant to signal with an AHL membership in program historical past and he went on to a four-year skilled hockey profession that included stops within the AHL and ECHL.
In 2009-10, Henningson signed with the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. He frolicked within the ECHL with the Wheeling Nailers, the place he was named group captain and MVP, and posted a plus-19 ranking. He additionally performed for the Chicago Specific and had AHL call-ups with Rockford and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Henningson ended his skilled profession within the AHL with the Binghamton Senators in 2012.
“I’m excited to be becoming a member of Princeton as an assistant coach,” mentioned Henningson. “I need to thank Ben Syer for giving me the chance and I look ahead to working with the teaching employees. It’s a privilege to be a part of a hockey program with such wealthy custom and a dedication to excellence each on and off the ice. I look ahead to serving to construct on the proud legacy of Princeton hockey and dealing with our student-athletes to realize success.”
Following his taking part in profession, Henningson transitioned into teaching, becoming a member of the Jersey Hitmen group. Since 2017, he has served as a head coach and abilities director inside the group, together with teaching the 16U and 18U groups that persistently rank within the high 25 within the nation.
