SSPARTANPARTAN HHOCKEYOCKEY SSTAFFTAFF 1133 SPARTAN HOCKEY | 1966, 1986, 2007 NCAA CHAMPIONS HHEADEAD CCOACHOACH TTOMOM AANASTOSNASTOS THE ANASTOS FILE ... EducaƟ on: B.A., Michigan State (1987) Collegiate Playing Experience: Four-year le erwinner, Michigan State (1982-85) Collegiate Coaching Experience: Head Coach, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1987-90 Assistant Coach Michigan State University , 1990-92 Head Coach Michigan State University, 2011-pres. Head Coaching Records: University of Michigan-Dearborn 68-37-7 (three seasons) Michigan State University 19-16-4 (one season) 1144 SPARTAN HOCKEY | 1966, 1986, 2007 NCAA CHAMPIONS Tom Anastos, a Michigan State alumnus who has stature in college hockey of his alma mater, where excelled in the sport of hockey as a player, coach, he will guide the Spartans into their 72nd varsity administrator, and visionary, was appointed to the season. He will also be helping Michigan State into posi on of Head Coach of the Michigan State Hockey the Big Ten Hockey Conference, which will begin play program on March 23, 2011. Anastos, who previously with the 2013-14 season. served as the commissioner of the Central Collegiate Anastos, who was honored as MSU’s “Distin- Hockey Associa on for 13 seasons, became just the guished Spartan” by the hockey program in 2004, sixth Michigan State hockey coach in program history both played and coached at his alma mater before and the fourth in the modern era. stepping into an administra ve role. He was a four- Anastos’ fi rst season behind the bench (2011-12) year le erwinner at Michigan State (1981-85) for featured an experience-laden team with nine seniors former coach Ron Mason, and received his bachelor’s and 14 upperclassmen overall. The team fi nished degree in construc on management in 1987. He was with a 19-16-4 overall record, a fi h-place fi nish in in the fi rst class of Michigan State players to skate the regular-season CCHA standings, and an at-large exclusively in the CCHA a er MSU le the WCHA as bid to the NCAA Tournament. Compe ng with the he helped the Spartans to three Great Lakes Invita- second-most diffi cult schedule in the country, the onal tles, a regular-season CCHA Championship Spartans received the at-large NCAA berth, its fi rst in 1985, and four consecu ve CCHA Tournament trip to the na onal tournament since 2008. Junior tles. His Spartan teams made four NCAA Tourna- and two- me captain Torey Krug led the team with ment appearances, fi nishing fourth in the country in a standout individual eff ort, earning CCHA Player of the Year, Defensive Defenseman of the Year, and First Team All-CCHA hon- ors. He was also a First Team All-America pick as well as one of ten fi nalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. Krug opted to forego his senior season in Green and White, signing with the Boston Bruins and playing in a pair of regular-season games for the NHL club that spring. Despite his move from commissioner to head coach of a collegiate program, Anastos has continued his leadership within the sport as he was appointed as the Big Ten’s representa ve to the NCAA Hockey Rules commi ee during his fi rst season at the helm. In June 2012, he was selected as the group’s chair. One of the major discussion points that the Anastos-led group has on its current agenda is research and gathering data in regards to NCAA athletes wearing a visor instead of the current full-facial protec- on worn by the players in college hockey. Recognized by The Hockey News in fi ve of the past six years on the list of the 100 most influential and powerful people in the sport (No. 46 in 2011), Anastos has an unrivaled passion for the game and savvy blend of administra ve, business and communica on skills, a Who’s Who list of connec ons, and has provided progressive vision and dynamic leadership for college hockey. He brings all of that to Michigan State to advance the on-ice success and 1155 SPARTAN HOCKEY | 1966, 1986, 2007 NCAA CHAMPIONS 1984 and losing a heartbreaking quarterfi nal series to eventual Na onal Champion Lake Superior State, to Providence in 1985. As a senior, he earned second- which was coached by current Notre Dame coach Jeff team all-conference honors and was named to the Jackson. all-tournament teams at the CCHA Tournament and In his role as CCHA commissioner, he has overseen Great Lakes Invita onal. In his career, Anastos skated the growth and changes in the membership over 13 in 151 games, scored 70 goals and recorded 73 assists years, and in April 2010, the CCHA played host to for 153 points, and amassed 102 penalty minutes. He the record-breaking 2010 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four s ll holds the MSU record for short-handed goals in at Ford Field in Detroit, the fi rst Frozen Four to be a season (7, scored in 1983-84), and ranks in a e for held in a non-tradi onal hockey venue. A crowd of fourth in the MSU annals with 10 career short-handed 34,954 watched the semifi nal games and 37,592 at- markers. tended the tle game between Boston College and Anastos, a 2000 inductee into his hometown Wisconsin. The individual day a endance marks and Dearborn, (Mich)., Sports Hall of Fame, played junior the three-game total of 72,546 easily sha ered the hockey for the Paddock Pools Saints of the NAHL and Frozen Four records, and the tle-game a endance was the fi rst player ever dra ed from the league by fi gure stands as the North American record for an an NHL team when the Montreal Canadiens selected indoor hockey game. him in 1981. The sixth-round pick of Montreal (124th In concert with his role of CCHA commissioner, overall) played one season in the Canadiens organiza- Anastos has served as the president of the Hockey on, then joined the coaching staff at the University Commissioner’s Associa on (HCA), a group com- of Michigan-Dearborn where he served as head coach prised of the fi ve commissioners from NCAA Division of that program from 1987-90, compiling a 68-37-7 I Hockey. The HCA addresses common issues and record. concerns at a na onal level, and the group’s eff orts In the fall of 1990, Anastos returned to his alma include on-going discussions with the NHL’s corporate mater as an assistant coach under Ron Mason for two offi ce in New York, sponsorship of the annual War- years. Those two teams went a combined 43-28-13, rior Ice Breaker Tournament and the College Hockey and in 1991-92, advanced to the Frozen Four, losing All-Access radio show on NHL Home Ice. The Anastos Family: Andie, Drew, Alyssa, Lisa, Tom, Jenna, and Lauren 1166 SPARTAN HOCKEY | 1966, 1986, 2007 NCAA CHAMPIONS In 2009, in his capacity as president of the HCA, Prior to his appointment with the CCHA, Anastos he spearheaded a college hockey delega on which served as president of the North American Hockey traveled to Florida to meet with the 30 general League, a Tier II junior league, for four seasons. Dur- managers of NHL teams. The same year, he was key ing that me, the NAHL a racted strong ownership in the procuring of a grant from the Na onal Hockey groups and developed into one of the top leagues League through USA Hockey. The funding was used for college-bound players in the United States. by the Anastos-led HCA to create College Hockey Prior to his appointment at MSU, Anastos was Inc., an educa onal and promo onal en ty charged very ac ve in amateur hockey, both as a coach in with raising the profi le and help foster the growth of the Detroit-based Honeybaked hockey program and college hockey. Now in its third year, College Hockey as an administrator. He had been one of two NCAA Inc. is under the direc on of Execu ve Director Mike representa ves on USA Hockey’s board of directors Snee. and was a long- me member of its Interna onal Anastos’ commitment to growing the sport has Council and Junior Council which oversaw the ac vi- resulted in an annual statewide celebra on known as es of the organiza on’s interna onal programs and “Hockey Day in Michigan” The grass roots ini a ve, US junior hockey. which includes the live broadcast of two CCHA games Anastos was previously on the board of directors on FOX Sports Detroit, has been successfully imitated for One Goal, a non-profi t organiza on comprised of by USA Hockey to encourage fans, players, coaches hockey’s North American industry leaders seeking to and offi cials to unite in their passion for their sport improve awareness and understanding of hockey, so and help introduce others to the game. parents can make informed decisions about involving Television also was a focal point for the CCHA their families in the game. under Anastos. The CCHA was the fi rst hockey confer- He is a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of ence to sign television agreements with CBS College Fame Board of Directors. Sports (formerly CSTV), Toronto, Canada-based Leafs Anastos, 48, lives in Farmington Hills, Mich., with TV, and the NHL Network. his wife, Lisa. They have fi ve children: daughters Lauren, Jenna, Alyssa, and Andie, and son Drew.