Upcoming Event: Men's Ice Hockey versus Simon Fraser (Exhibition) on October 3, 2025
Men's Ice Hockey
vs Simon Fraser (Exhibition)
Providence College Athletics
Men's Ice Hockey
Irving, Bruce
Bruce Irving
- Title:
- Volunteer Assistant Coach
Providence College men’s hockey head coach Nate Leaman announced the hiring of Bruce Irving as a volunteer assistant coach on Sept. 3, 2019.
Irving spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at St. John’s Prep (Danvers, Mass.) following a 12-year stint as a volunteer assistant coach at Harvard University where he worked with the Crimson’s goaltenders. From 2016-18, he was an assistant coach/goaltending coach with the Valley Junior Warriors junior program (EHL). Leaman, who was an assistant coach with Harvard from 1999-2003, worked with Irving during the 2002-03 season.
With Irving's coaching in 2007-08, Kyle Richter earned the Ken Dryden Award as ECAC Hockey's top goalie. He was selected to the All-ECAC and All-Ivy League first teams and was a New England All-Star after posting ECAC Hockey's top goals-against average (1.82) and save percentage (.935) in league play. Richter was the ECAC Goaltender of the Week three times that year, and Irving's pupils earned the honor twice last season.
Irving helped mentor Dov Grumet-Morris '05 to a standout career, culminating in an brilliant 2004-05 campaign. Grumet-Morris was a Hobey Baker Award finalist, an AHCA All-American and the Walter Brown Award recipient as the top U.S.-born player in New England. Grumet-Morris closed the season second in the nation with a 1.63 goals-against average. He played three of his four seasons under Irving, finishing as Harvard's all-time leader in saves (3,081) and second on the career goals-against average list at 2.25.
Irving has worked various camps and training firms as a goaltender coach and coached at Triton Regional High School from 1985-2001, first serving as an assistant before being promoted to head coach in 1998. An alumnus of the school, he coached the Vikings to a 42-32-10 record over four seasons. He's also currently an instructor with Stop It Goaltending in Woburn, MA.
The Newbury, Mass. native was a goaltender for Cornell University and graduated from there with a degree in electrical engineering in 1985. Irving also earned his M.B.A. from Northeastern University in 1991.
Irving and his wife, Janice, reside in Newbury, Mass., with their sons, Jackson and Carson.
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