Career
He was named to that position on June 16, 2014. Cronin is a graduate of Colby College, class of 1986. Cronin began his career as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Colby College in 1987-1988 and then became a graduate assistant at the University of Maine from 1988-1990, then as an assistant for Colorado College from 1990-1993.
He returned to Maine to be an assistant coach from 1993-1995 and was named interim head coach following a scandal that banished head coach Shawn Walsh from the bench for one year in 1995-1996, leading the Black Bears to the Hockey East championship game in 1996 where they lost to Providence College, 3-2.
Cronin spent time working with United States of America Hockey before joining the New York Islanders in 1998. He served as an assistant coach with the Islanders for 5 seasons before being named head coach of their minor league affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
He coached the Sound Tigers for 2 seasons with great success, going 78-61-16-5. On June 16, 2014, Greg Cronin was named Assistant Coach of the New York Islanders.
Northeastern career
In 2005 Cronin replaced Bruce Crowder as head coach of the Northeastern Huskies men"s hockey team
Cronin inherited a team that graduated almost all of their key players from a 15-18-5 team and had little hope of competing in the short term. The team went 3-24-7 in 2005-2006 before posting a 13-18-5 record the following year behind the development of many of Cronin"s recruits. The team further improved to 16-18-3 in 2007-2008, winning their first playoff game in years in the 2-1 series loss to the University of Vermont.
The Huskies opened the 2008-2009 season expected to contend for home ice advantage in Hockey East (4th place or better) for the first time since 1997-1998.
The Huskies went 23-9-4 in the regular season, leading the conference until the final day when they lost at Boston College 4-1, falling to second place in Hockey East in the process. On February 18, 2011, Northeastern announced Cronin would be suspended indefinitely due to possible recruitment violations.
The suspension lasted six games, with Cronin being reinstated prior to Northeastern"s quarterfinal playoff series with Boston University. On June 20, 2011, Greg Cronin was named an Assistant Coach to the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Scott Gordon.
Cronin lives in Boston, and he has many family connections at Northeastern.
*Current as of March 14, 2011.