Joe Dumais - Men's Ice Hockey Associate Head Coach - Staff Directory

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Joe Dumais

Title:
Men's Ice Hockey Associate Head Coach
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(203) 582-8593

Former Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey captain Joe Dumais ’06 finished his ninth season as the Bobcats' associate head coach in 2024-25.

Since Dumais assumed the role, Quinnipiac has recorded 220 wins with Dumais on the staff, including the 2023 National Championship and each of the last five Cleary Cups. They have also qualified for each of the last six NCAA Tournaments.

Quinnipiac led the nation at the faceoff dot, winning 55.2 percent of draws and were again a prolific special teams unit, ranking second on the power play (29.3 percent) and third on the penalty kill (87.7 percent).

During that 2023-24 campaign, the Bobcats again were one of the most prolific teams at the faceoff dot, winning 55 percent of draws, a mark good for tops in the ECAC and third in the country. They also posted the fourth-highest scoring offense in the country, potting 4.10 per contest.

This attack was led by San Jose Sharks signee Collin Graf, who earned Hobey Baker Top 10 accolades for the second consecutive season as once again one of the top players in college hockey. He was sixth in the country in goals per game and eighth in points per contest.

Overall, Quinnipiac has won six of the seven five Cleary Cups as ECAC Hockey Regular Season Champions. He was a key component of the Bobcats’ title run, engineering the faceoff play that helped clinch the program’s first national championship.

Under his guidance in 2022-23, the Bobcats had the second-highest success rate at the faceoff dot during their title-winning campaign, finishing with a .570 winning clip. They also had the third-most potent offense in the country, averaging 3.95 goals per game.

This included the explosion of sophomore Collin Graf, who landed on the Hobey Baker Top 10 List and was named a Second Team All-American, and classmate Jacob Quillan, who totaled 38 points during his sophomore campaign including the game-winner en route to Frozen Four MOP honors.

The 2021-22 campaign also saw very high success in the same categories, as the Bobcats totaled the fourth-most points of any team in the country at 378. They also landed second again in faceoff success at .575, led by a pair of centers in the Top 13 nationally in faceoffs won in Wyatt Bongiovanni (462) and Skyler Brind’Amour (399).

During the 2020-21 season when the Bobcats went 17-8-4 and had a 10-4-4 mark in league play. Quinnipiac also reached the NCAA Tournament in the 2020-21 season where they made the West Regional against Minnesota State.

In 2020-21, Dumais' work helped gain head coach Rand Pecknold ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year for the third time in his career. Dumais also helped coach Odeen Tufto to the league player of the year and CCM/AHCA All-America honors, Petruzzelli to Goaltender of the Year and both to Hobey Baker Award Top 10 Finalist.

The Bobcats clinched a share of the Cleary Cup as ECAC Hockey Regular Season Champions in 2018-19 and returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since Dumais' arrival. The Bobcats reached the Midwest Regional Final after picking up a win over Arizona State in the first round.

In his first season with the program in 2016-17, the Bobcats made their fifth straight appearance in the ECAC Hockey Semifinals in Lake Placid, N.Y. after defeating St. Lawrence on the road in a best-of-three game quarterfinal series.

Dumais returned to Quinnipiac after spending the previous five seasons at fellow ECAC Hockey institute Union College preceded by three seasons at the University of Connecticut. Dumais joined the staff at Union in 2011 and was elevated to associate head coach in 2015.

During Dumais’ time at Union he helped guide the Dutchmen to the 2014 NCAA National Championship. In addition to the Dutchmen’s success in the national tournament, Dumais also helped develop three All-Americans, six All-ECAC Hockey selections and a pair of ECAC Hockey All-Rookie team picks.

With oversight over Union’s offense, Dumais produced a pair of 50-point scorers that ranked in the Top-10 nationally while the Dutchmen ranked among the national leaders in scoring offense. In addition, Dumais also worked with the Dutchmen’s special teams that saw its power-play unit rank among the national leaders consistently over the last five years.

Dumais was a four-year letterwinner for the Bobcats from 2002 through 2006, appearing in 128 games for his career and serving as a captain for the 2006 team. Dumais accumulated 17 goals and 25 assists for 42 points.

Dumais graduated from Quinnipiac in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology before completing a master’s degree in recreation and sports sciences from Ohio University.