Highlights & Accolades
Former UConn captain who led team to conference championship in 2000
23 years of elite coaching experience with Boston Junior Bruins and Minuteman Flames
Developed 13 NHL players and 200+ Division I commits
Led teams to 9 EHF championships
21 players selected for USA Hockey National Development Camp in Summer 2025
Mike Anderson
Director of Boys’ Hockey
Mike grew up in Springfield, MA, where he played his youth hockey for the Springfield Pics. He attended the Westminster School from 1993 to 1995 before returning home in 1996 to play junior hockey locally. He committed to UCONN and played college hockey there from 1997 to 2001, winning a conference championship in 2000 and serving as team captain in 2001. After college, he spent a year playing minor professional hockey in Michigan before transitioning into a career in finance while continuing to work in hockey part time.
In 2006, Mike joined the Boston Junior Bruins full time and began coaching junior hockey. From 2006 to 2021, the teams he coached produced more than 200 NCAA Division I–committed players, 13 of whom went on to play in the NHL.
Mike currently coaches the 15U and 13U teams with the Minuteman Flames (EHF) in Marlboro, MA. Both teams recently qualified for and competed in the International Pee Wee Quebec Tournament. His 15U group has ranked among the top three teams in the country for the past six years. This summer, 21 of his current or former players were selected to attend USA Hockey’s National Development Camp.
Coaching has always been Mike’s passion. He considers it an honor to work with talented and dedicated young student-athletes during such pivotal stages of their development. To Mike, being a great coach means meeting players where they are, understanding and caring about them on a personal level, and investing in what matters most to them. He strives to create a culture where players trust their teammates and coaches and buy in organically because they love the grind and the pursuit of their passion—not because they feel obligated. He is committed to helping athletes see a path toward their goals and supporting them through every high and low along the way.
COACHING PHILOSOPHY
Being 100% committed to an objective for the benefit of the team. Be someone teammates want to be like. Embracing a role that helps the team even if not’s the one you envisioned for yourself and understanding that doing a great job with that role can and often times does lead you back to the role you wanted all along.
Every players starting point is different yet most young athletes all have the same couple goals. Play in the NHL, play Division I. Success for me is getting them to go from those 30,000 feet goals to in the moment tangible goals that put them on a path to getting the most out of their natural born abilities. Develop habits. Be consistent and committed to working at the little things everyday.
Accountability and information. Learn the when and why of the skills you’re working on developing. Being a smart hockey player, being a hockey player that has a consistent identity and understands how to mentally process information at a high level. These are translatable skills that they will absolutely have to have as they move up levels and they need to be instilled, coached and repeatedly worked on at younger ages.
I believe in constantly finding challenging and adverse situations because that’s where growth and development opportunities live. So, we intend to play a challenging schedule that both showcase our athletes to the folks who will be evaluating them at higher levels and pushes them outside their comfort zones so they continue to focus on getting a little bit better and improving their details.
In our current landscape as you approach your 15u year you need to be working on your cognitive skills, honing in details such as proper compete level, learning what it means to be selfless and buy into the process of committing to your personal development. When 15u year rolls around the eyes on you increase and we want our players ready to be at their best. Development never stops. Teaching, coaching, encouraging never stops. Those skills are worked on every day. Make sure in all of this we remember to stop and enjoy it. You only go on this journey once. Committing to something, setting a goal and chasing it doesn’t mean you can’t have fun along the way.
“Being a great coach means reaching players where they are, being willing to understand and care about them on a personal level, and buying into what matters most to them.”
– Mike Anderson, Director of Boys’ Hockey
COLLEGE PLACEMENT & PATHWAYS
Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Boston University, Boston College, UCONN, Brown, Quinnipiac, Holy Cross, UMASS-Amherst, UNH, Merrimack, Notre Dame among other programs.
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