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Could former Clarkson hockey coach Mark Morris be next SLU Saints head coach?

Posted 5/3/16

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University is expected to announce the appointment of the next coach for its Division I Saints men’s hockey team today. Speculation has focused on former Clarkson University …

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Could former Clarkson hockey coach Mark Morris be next SLU Saints head coach?

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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University is expected to announce the appointment of the next coach for its Division I Saints men’s hockey team today.

Speculation has focused on former Clarkson University Coach Mark Morris, considered to be the most successful coach at Clarkson, SLU’s nearby rival. He amassed a 306-156-42 record overall at Clarkson from 1988 to 2002.

Although the announcement is not scheduled until 4 p.m. today, Mark Morris’s Wikipedia entry already has him as SLU’s hockey coach.

Morris, originally from Massena, was fired from Clarkson in the middle of the 2002-2003 season following an on-ice practice incident in which he allegedly became rough with a player. He landed on his skates with a job on the coaching staff of the Vancouver Canucks, with the AHL Manchester Monarchs, and most recently as a coach in the NHL Carolina Hurricanes organization with the American Hockey League Charlotte Checkers.

“Mark is an experienced head coach whose teams never had a losing record in 21 seasons at Clarkson and with Manchester,” Hurricanes General Manager Ron Francis said in an official release at the time of his hiring there last year. “He is a proven teacher of the game who has been a part of developing successful NHL players.”

If appointed, Morris would succeed Greg Carvel, who has left SLU for UMass.

SLU has scheduled the announcement for 4 p.m. today.