Project Stanley Podcast

Mark is currently the COO of North America for InStat Sports, a leading performance data and video analysis software provider. 

Mark has held multiple scouting positions across various leagues in North America including QMJHL, OHL, USHL, and NHL. He served in scouting and player personnel capacities with the Halifax Mooseheads, Mississauga Steelheads, Muskegon Lumberjacks, and Florida Panthers during his tenure. 

Listen in as Mark shares insights into his player evaluation methodologies, use of data analysis, and stories throughout his scouting journeys.

Bill Bowler was named General Manager and VP of Hockey Operations of the Windsor Spitfires in July of 2019. He had been active in the front office since 2015 and brought significant experience to his role having also played (1991 - 1995) and coached (2005 - 2007) as a Spitfire. Bill won the 2017 Memorial Cup while acting as VP of Hockey Operations with the organization.

Over his four-year, Ontario Hockey League career, the Toronto native played in 250 regular season games, recording 149 goals and 318 assists (a league record that still stands). His 467 career points also remain a franchise record. Bowler went on to play nine professional seasons in the NHL, IHL, AHL, and DEL.

Ryan Papaioannou enters his 12th season as General Manager & Head Coach of the Brooks Bandits.

A two-time Canadian National Junior A Champion, and a two-time AJHL Coach of the Year in 2012-13 and 2018-19, Ryan Papaioannou is the winningest and longest-tenured coach in franchise history, as well as a five-time AJHL champion.

Papaioannou has built the Bandits into a perennial contender in the AJHL. In the last eight seasons, the Bandits have finished 1st in the AJHL 4 times, won 5 league championships, and 2 national championships. The program has also had more than 85 Division I committed players over the last nine seasons.

The Connecticut Whale named Alexis Moed General Manager in June 2021 ahead of the 2021-2022 NWHL Season. Alexis started her first week preparing for the 2021 NWHL Draft selecting Taylor Girard 1st Overall. 

Moed currently serves as the President and Founder of the New York Islanders Girls Elite Organization and will remain in those roles in addition to serving as GM of the Whale. Created in 2016, the Islanders Elite program is committed to the support and development of girls ice hockey on Long Island and in the NY metropolitan area. 

Moed played four seasons of NCAA hockey, finishing her career at Boston College. 

In the summer of 2018, longtime Michigan Wolverines athletic trainer, Rick Bancroft, was promoted to director of hockey operations with the program. Now entering his 31st season at Michigan, Bancroft has been with the Wolverines since 1991.

During his time in Ann Arbor, Bancroft also held the role of coordinator of athletic medicine from 2000 to 2018, athletic training consultant from 2006 to 2018 and professional development coordinator from 1991 to 2018. He also served as an intermittent lecturer and instructor in the division of kinesiology from 1991 to 1993 and 1997 to 2001.

Theresa Feaster entered the 2020-21 season as her ninth at Providence, and fifth season as the director of men’s ice hockey operations. She was a graduate assistant for two years prior to head coach Nate Leaman offering her a full-time opportunity in 2016, becoming at the time one of two women working as full-time hockey staff members for Division I men’s hockey teams.

Feaster began working for Coach Leaman and his staff during the 2012-13 season, tracking time-on-ice and other in-game statistics while also serving as coordinator of the team’s involvement with Team IMPACT. In her current role, Feaster is responsible for providing video and statistical support and analysis for the coaching staff. 

On the international level, Feaster made her first appearance as a member of the U.S. National Junior Team coaching staff at the 2021 World Junior Championships capturing the gold medal and is the first female to ever serve on the coaching staff of a U.S. National Junior Team.

Christian Koelling took over as the Bulldogs’ director of hockey operations in the summer of 2008. Among his vast array of administrative duties, Koelling is in charge of all video-related endeavors, making team travel arrangements, coordinating community outreach projects, and overseeing ice scheduling, summer camps and budget management. He also assists with the program's media relations and marketing efforts.

The Bloomington, Minn., native has been heavily involved in the local hockey scene over the past decade-plus, having spent three seasons as the head coach at the now-defunct Duluth Central High School (2005-08) and five more years coaching Duluth East youth teams. Koelling, the co-founder of the Duluth Area Special and Sled Hockey (DASH) association, is currently the Coach-In-Chief for the Minnesota district of USA Hockey and is a past-president of the Duluth Amateur Hockey Association’s Board of Directors. In August 2012,  he served on the coaching staff for U.S. Under-18 Team during its tour of the Czech Republic. He also is a member of the Northern Lights Foundation advisory board.
 
A 2004 graduate of UMD (a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and a coaching minor), Koelling played three years of varsity hockey for Bloomington Jefferson High School and paced the Jaguars in scoring as a senior while leading them to their second Minnesota State High School Class AA Tournament appearance in three years.

The 2020-21 season marks University of Notre Dame hockey coach Jeff Jackson’s 16th season behind the Irish bench. During his first 15 seasons, the program has enjoyed a great deal of success, including four trips to the Frozen Four and eight conference championships. The highly regarded Jackson has over 30 years of coaching experience and led Notre Dame to back-to-back Big Ten tournament championship seasons in 2018 and 2019 while also guiding the Irish to the 2018 national title game en route to being named the Spencer Penrose Award winner as the National Coach of the Year. Jackson was also named the Spencer Penrose award winner in 2007 and he is one of just 14 coaches to have earned the honor multiple times (dating back to 1951). Additionally, Jackson is the only coach to have earned the honor multiple times in the last 16 seasons.

Notre Dame’s Jeff Jackson era began in 2005 when the University searched for a coach who could move the program among the elite hockey schools in the country. The veteran coach owned a resume packed with success at the collegiate, junior hockey, professional and international levels. Throughout his coaching career, Jackson’s teams had been successful both on and off the ice and the hope was that he could deliver those same qualities at Notre Dame.

Jackson’s Notre Dame teams have made 10 trips to the NCAA Championship (2007-09, 2011, 2013-14, 2016-19), advancing to the Frozen Four four times and playing in the 2008 and 2018 national title games.

During his 15-year run, Notre Dame has become one of the nation’s top teams while playing in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, Hockey East and now Big Ten. Under Jackson, the Irish won the CCHA regular-season title twice (2006-07 and 2008-09) while earning three Mason Cup championships (2007, 2009 and the final one in 2013). Then, in the team’s first season in the Big Ten (2017-18), Notre Dame captured both the regular season and conference championships and followed up by once again winning the conference tournament in year two (2018-19). 

Jackson’s success on the ice also has had a major impact off the ice for the Irish. With the wins came a commitment from the University that led to the new home of Irish hockey — The Compton Family Ice Arena — one of the finest college hockey facilities in the nation. The venue opened for business on Oct. 21, 2011.

Since Jackson’s arrival, the Irish have had 35 players selected in the National Hockey League Entry Draft (leading into the 2020 NHL Draft), including three first round selections. In that same span, 26 players from USA Hockey’s National Team Developmental Program have matriculated to Notre Dame.

During Jackson’s tenure, the Irish have had eight players garner All-America honors — Bobby Nardella in 2019, Cale Morris in 2018, Anders Bjork in 2017, Robbie Russo in 2015, Anders Lee in 2013, Ian Cole and Erik Condra in 2009 and David Brown in 2007. In addition, 24 of Jackson’s Notre Dame players have gone on to play in the NHL.

Jackson enters the 2020-21 season with a 20-year collegiate record of 516-258-89 for a .649 winning percentage, the third-highest winning percentage among all active coaches with five years or more in Division I (entering 2020-21). His 516 career wins rank tied for 12th all-time in Division I and second among active coaches (entering 2020-21).

Hill joined the St. Lawrence men's hockey staff as an assistant coach in June 2019. 

Hill spent the 2018-19 season as an assistant coach at Holy Cross after spending the previous five years as the Director of Hockey Operations at Miami University in Ohio where he worked alongside Coach Brekke as part of the RedHawks staff. Hill was also a volunteer assistant coach for Miami during the 2012-13 season prior to moving to Hockey Operations.

In 2018-19 with the Crusaders, Hill served as the co-recruiting coordinator and was also in charge of academic and compliance coordination, as well as team video and pre-scouts.

A 2012 graduate of Ferris State University, Hill captained the Bulldogs' NCAA runner-up team during the 2011-12 season. He was a two-time recipient of the team's Most Competitive Award, and was also the Most Improved Player in 2009-10. He obtained a Master's degree in Sports Studies from Miami University in 2015.

Entering his sixth year on the Golden Knights coaching staff, Josh Hauge came to Clarkson in the Fall of 2015 from the Fargo Force in the United States Hockey League where he served as assistant coach and director of Scouting in 2014-15. 

In his first five years at Clarkson, Hauge has played an integral role on Coach Jones’ staff, helping to bring the Golden Knights back to national prominence. Since the 2015-16 season, the Green and Gold have skated to 110 victories, four 20-win campaigns, claimed the 2019 ECAC Hockey Championship Tournament title and participated in the past two (2018, 2019) NCAA Tournaments. Last season Clarkson skated to a 23-8-3 overall record and a second place 16-5-1 ECAC Hockey mark. The Knights were poised for postseason success and were rated ninth in the final NCAA Pairwise rankings before the COVID 19 pandemic forced an abrupt end to the college hockey season in early March.

The Knights have brought in several standout recruiting classes to Clarkson in recent years with four Golden Knights earning ECAC Hockey All-Rookie team honors over the past three seasons. Five Clarkson players have been selected in the NHL Draft since 2017. 

While with Fargo, Hauge helped the Force improve their win total by 12 games from the previous season. His duties included working with the power play, forwards, recruitment of players and running the USHL Draft along with the handling of NCAA Clearinghouse and educational issues of the team. He joined the Force after acting as the Head Coach/General Manager of the Tri-City Storm for parts of the previous three seasons. 

As Head Coach and General Manager with Tri-City from 2011-14, Hauge guided 100% of his players to NCAA Division I or pro hockey. He led the Storm to a 2012 playoff appearance and a 20-18-1 record after a 6-15 start. Hauge, 36, also served as the head coach for the Fairbank Ice Dogs in the North American Hockey League's West Division from 2008-11. In three seasons he compiled a regular-season record of 111-49-15 (.694 winning percentage) and was 20-9-0 in the post-season, which included a 10-1-0 mark in the 2011 playoffs as the Ice Dogs won the Robertson Cup.  

A native Rosemount, MN, Hauge has coached teams to one national championship, two national championship runner-ups, three league championships, two league championship runner-ups, two regular season titles, four divisional championships, named coach of the year once, and has a career winning percentage of .633 (250-138-32).