Herb Brooks Coach of the Year

NCHC Herb Brooks Coach of the Year
SportCollege ice hockey
LeagueNCHC
Awarded forThe Coach of the Year in the NCHC
History
First award2014
Most winsBrad Berry (4)
Most recentPat Ferschweiler

The Herb Brooks Coach of the Year is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference regular season to the best coach in the conference as voted by the coaches of each NCHC team.

The Coach of the Year was first awarded in 2014 and is a successor to the CCHA Coach of the Year which was temporarily discontinued after the first iteration of the conference dissolved due to the 2013–14 NCAA conference realignment.

It is named in honor of Herb Brooks who, though having died ten years prior to the NCHC beginning play, coached founding member St. Cloud State for one season. He is more famously known for coaching Minnesota to their first three national championships in the 1970s as well as leading Team USA to victory at the Miracle on Ice en route to the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.