INTERIM HEAD COACH

Joe Sacco was named as the Interim Head Coach of the Boston Bruins on November 19, 2024.

He is in his 11th season in the Bruins organization, as he was originally named to the Boston coaching staff on July 24, 2014. He served for ten seasons as an Assistant Coach before being elevated to Associate Coach at the start of the 2024-25 season.

He came to the Bruins with eleven years of coaching experience, which followed a 13-year NHL playing career. After serving as an assistant coach at the AHL level in both Lowell and Albany, he was named head coach of AHL Lake Erie in 2007 and served in that capacity until 2009. He moved to the NHL ranks on June 4, 2009, when he was named as the Head Coach of the Colorado Avalanche. The 2010 Jack Adams Award finalist served in that position for four seasons with a record of 130-134-40 behind the Avalanche bench. He then spent one season as an assistant coach for the Buffalo Sabres in 2013-14 before leaving to join the Bruins.

The native of Medford, Massachusetts was a fourth round NHL draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs and played three seasons of college hockey at Boston University from 1987-1990. He turned pro in 1990 and is a veteran of 738 NHL games with Toronto, Anaheim, NY Islanders, Washington, and Philadelphia, where he had 213 points over his 13 NHL seasons.