Scott Sandelin

Background

He grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota where he went on to be drafted in the second round by the Montreal Canadiens (40th overall) and play collegiate hockey for the North Dakota Fighting Sioux.

Career

He is currently the head coach of the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs men"s ice hockey team In 2011 he became the first coach in Bulldog history to lead them to a national title. lieutenant was a 3–2 overtime game against the University of Michigan at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

His National Hockey League career included seven seasons, Canadiens (1986-1988), Philadelphia Flyers (1990-1991), and his home state team, the Minnesota North Stars (1991-1992).

His career was cut short with continuous injuries but managed four assists in 25 games. His playing years also included stints with the United States World Junior Championships team in 1984 and World Championships in 1986.

From there he went to work on the North Dakota staff from 1994 to 2000. The first three as a recruiter and assisting with games and practices.

The last three were spent as an associate head coach to Dean Blais, now with the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks.

Minnesota-Duluth

On March 30, 2000, Sandelin accepted the job as the head coach of the University of Minneasota-Duluth Bulldogs for long time Bulldog coach Mike Sertich. In (2008-2009) he knocked off his former North Dakota team to become the WCHA Final Five Champions. Then in (2010–2011) the Bulldogs made a run in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament to become the 2011 National Collegiate Athletic Association Champions, beating Yale, Union, Notre Dame and Michigan for the title.

He made the Bulldogs the second Division I collegiate team in Minnesota to take home the Frozen Four Title, the Minnesota Golden Gophers (5) and the Bulldogs (1).

In (2003-2004) he was named the WCHA Coach of the year and the National Coach of the year posting a 28–13–4 record and leading the Bulldogs to a third-place finish in the Frozen Four. Sandelin was 2nd in his Championship year with the Bulldogs.

He has also produced two Hobey Baker winners in Junior Lessard in 2004 and Jack Connolly in 2012, along with 15 future National Hockey League hockey players and 17 All WCHA selections. During the stretch he was the United States National Junior coach in 2004 and assistant coach in 2011.

In the 2011-2012 season he led the Bulldogs to a 17 game unbeaten streak, and the first time in Bulldog history at the number one in the USCHO polls for 9 straight weeks.

Achievements

• His senior year at North Dakota Sandelin was chosen as a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, ALL-WCHA First Team, All American Second team, and the Most Valuable Player of the Fighting Sioux. In his years with Fighting Sioux, they went on to make four National Collegiate Athletic Association from (1996 to 2000), win two National Champions in (1996-1997 and 1999–2000), three WCHA regular season champions from (1996-1999) and two WCHA conference tournament champions in (1996-1997 and 1999–2000). Has head coach he has led the Bulldogs to six 22+ win seasons, four National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament appearances in (2003-2004, 2008-2009, and 2010–2012). Both times the National Collegiate Athletic Association Frozen Four has been held at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, a Minnesota team has won in overtime, University of Minnesota in (2001-2002) beating the University of Maine 4–3 and the Bulldogs in (2010-2011) against the University of Michigan 3–2.