Men's Ice Hockey

BGSU names Paskaris assistant coach

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University hockey team along with head hockey coach Ty Eigner has announced the hiring of new Assistant Coach Stavros Paskaris. Paskaris brings 13 years of collegiate coaching experience to the Falcons' bench, joining Eigner and Assistant Coach Curtis Carr on the staff as well as the team's Director of Operations Nathan Phillips. Paskaris will join the Falcon family after three previous stops in collegiate hockey. Most recently, he was a member of the Dartmouth coaching staff after spending 2014-20 with Princeton and starting his career with five seasons at Adrian College.

"We are really excited to add Stavros Paskaris to our staff, he checked every box that Curtis, Nathan and I were looking for in terms of adding to our staff," said Head Coach Ty Eigner. "He is highly respected across college hockey and brings a ton of college hockey recruiting and coaching experience. His wife Shannon and their daughters Effie and Zoe will be great additions to Bowling Green and our hockey program."

Paskaris will join a Bowling Green program that is coming off its seventh consecutive 20+ win season, the second longest streak in program history. The Orange and Brown went 20-10-1 this past year and will enter the 2021-22 season as a member of the newly reestablished Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA).

"I'm honored to be joining Ty, Curtis and Nathan at Bowling Green State University and to be part of such a historic hockey program," said new Assistant Coach Stavros Paskaris. "Shannon and I couldn't be more excited to raise our family in the Bowling Green community."

Paskaris spent the 2020-21 season with the Dartmouth hockey program, joining the staff in July of 2020. Due to the Ivy League canceling sports during the past year, Paskaris didn't appear on the bench during his season with the program. 

Prior to Dartmouth Paskaris was part of the Princeton hockey team, serving as an assistant coach from 2014-20. With Princeton, Paskaris was an instrumental part of the Tigers' 2018 ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament berth. During that season he oversaw the second-best scoring offense in the nation as the Tigers' averaged 3.64 goals per game including two 50-plus point seasons from both Ryan Kuffner and Max Veronneau. In the same season, Paskaris guided Josh Teves to be the nation's top scoring defenseman as well as placing the Tigers' as the nation's top ranked power-play with a mark of .277. 

Paskaris began his coaching career with nearby Adrian College, serving as an assistant on the staff for five seasons under Ron Fogarty, the same coach that hired him at Princeton. With Adrian, Paskaris was the team's recruiting coordinator in addition to being the first assistant on the staff. Over his time, he aided the Bulldogs to a 114-19-9 standing, including four Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association (MCHA) regular-season titles, three MCHA playoff championships and four NCAA Tournament bids. 

A native of Dearborn, Mich., Paskaris earned his bachelor's degree from Wayne State and a master's degree from Ohio University. While at Wayne State, Paskaris was a four-year member of the varsity hockey program, being named the College Hockey America Rookie of the Year in 2005. He also played for the Dayton Bombers in the ECHL.Â