Bio

Michael Finnegan returned to American International College to serve as the Director of Hockey Operations for the ice hockey team in September of 2024 after serving in the same role from 2018-21.

Finnegan last worked with the University of Connecticut men's ice hockey program as the team's video coordinator from 2021-24, helping the Huskies to a 55-47-5 record in his three seasons in Storrs. In his first season, the Huskies reached the Hockey East Championship, defeating then-No. 16 Boston University and then-No. 10 Northeastern University to reach their first-ever conference championship contest.

Finnegan's three seasons at AIC were among the best in program history. AIC went a combined 59-33-2 from 2019-21, including a 50-16-2-1-0-0 mark in Atlantic Hockey play. AIC won its first-ever AHA regular season title and then its first Jack Riley Memorial Trophy in 2019 before knocking out then-No. 1 St. Cloud State University in its NCAA Tournament debut.

The Yellow Jackets repeated as AHA regular season champions in 2019-20, although the COVID-19 Pandemic forced the cancellation of the AHA Tournament, and repeated again in 2020-21, winning the Jack Riley Memorial Trophy a second time.

In those three seasons, AIC earned fifteen AHA All-Conference selections, including seven First-Team honors, and the program's first two AHCA All-American selections in Blake Christensen and Brennan Kapcheck, the latter of whom also became AIC's first-ever AHA Player of the Year.