Coaching staff
Ed Walsh: Owner, Head Coach
Ed Walsh has been coaching college hockey for the past twenty-eight years and is currently in his ninth full season as an Assistant Coach at Division I, Northeastern University in Boston, MA (2016, 2019 Hockey East Champions, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Bean Pot Champions and 2020 Belfast Ireland Friendship Four Bell Pot Champions). Previously, he was an Assistant Coach at Hockey East Division I – University of Massachusetts – Lowell for 11 years as their primary goaltending coach and systems analyst. During his time at U-Mass Lowell, the Riverhawks progressed to the Hockey East Final Four 8 of the 11 years, the NCAA semi-finals and NCAA Final Eight twice. Ed was also a member of the U-Mass Lowell Coaching Staff voted to receive the 1996 National Coaching Staff of the Year Award from the American Hockey Coaches Association.
Ed spent seven years at ECAC Division I Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH as their primary goaltending coach and systems analyst. During his tenure, the Big Green made the ECAC Championships six times, winning an ECAC Championship and Ivy League Championship. He also coached for one year at New England College in Henniker, NH when the team won the 2001 ECAC Championship.
Ed has coached with the USA Hockey New England program and also works with USA Hockey as a coach and Level 4 lecturer on goaltending.
As a player, Ed was a top-end goaltender and named Defensive Player of the Year and Goaltender of the Year in Massachusetts. He also played on Team Massachusetts when it went on to the claim the 1983 USA Championship. Ed’s collegiate career was cut short at Salem State after he endured an injury that ended his career just after his freshman season.
For the last thirty-seven years, Ed has owned and operated the Ed Walsh Goaltending Schools where he runs Goaltending training sessions throughout the hockey season for various youth hockey and metro programs as well as individual training and summer camps. He is also the founder and co-owner of the International Goaltender Competition. Ed’s successes in training goaltenders are far reaching. In his 37 years coaching, he has developed 6 NHL goaltenders as well as another 38 goaltenders playing professional hockey in the US and abroad. Ed’s goaltenders have won many awards including the Stanley Cup, Hobey Baker runner up, the Mike Richter Award for most outstanding goaltender in Division 1 NCAA men’s ice hockey as well as Silver Medals at the World Juniors.
Ed has trained and continues to develop over 250 goaltenders, many that have played or are currently playing at Division 1 and Division 3 College hockey as well as internationally. Ed and his staff have worked with students from the ages of 5 thru professional and are extremely excited about his next generation of goaltenders that he is developing and are waiting in the wings.
Ed’s training facilities are in Salem, NH, Billerica, MA and throughout Florida. He currently lives in Salem, NH with his wife Joanne and his two sons Alexander and Cameron.
Cam Walsh: Coach
Cam Walsh is an active Division 2 ACHA college goaltender playing at the University of Louisville. He is a Senior Coach at Ed Walsh Goaltending Schools and frequently participates in Ed’s lessons and camps.
Mark Ostapina: Coach
Mark Ostapina, who played college hockey under legendary coach Bob Johnson at the University of Wisconsin, currently serves as the MSOE Raiders head ice hockey coach.
As a longtime friend of Ed Walsh, Coach Ostapina has been involved with Ed Walsh Hockey Schools since the very beginning.
In his 15th season as head coach at MSOE, Ostapina has helped put the team on the map as one of the premier programs in NCAA Division III. Since coming aboard, he has led the Raiders to three MCHA championships and three Harris Cup trophies. He also led the Raiders to their first-ever NCAA tournament appearance in 2011-12.
Ostapina also has been named the MCHA Coach of the Year and was a semifinalist for the Edward Jeremiah American Hockey Coaches Association Coach of the Year four times in his career, including the 2010-11 season in which the Raiders went 21-6-1 overall and 16-3-1 in MCHA play.
In his first season in 2001-02, MSOE improved from fifth to second in the MCHA. Since then, the Red & White has finished among the top two, seven more times and had 10 top-three finishes. His Raider teams have won 20 games four times.
Ostapina is easily the winningest coach in program history, entering a 227-170-16 (.569) record, including 173-95-12 (.639) in conference play.
Outside of collegiate athletics, Ostapina is a 12-time selection to serve on the USA Hockey Select team’s coaching staff. During the summer of 2009, Ostapina‘s Select 17 team won the program-wide championship and he was selected to the first-ever Select Camp All-Star game, leading his team to a 3-2 victory. He also lectures throughout the country as part of the USA Hockey Coaches Education program.
Previously as a collegiate head coach, Ostapina led New England College in Henniker, N.H., from 1995-01, advancing to the NCAA Division III national tournament in 2001. His team finished the season ranked eighth in the NCAA Division III national polls.
Ostapina received his start in collegiate coaching serving as an assistant coach at University of Alaska Anchorage (1987-91) and then filling the same position at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (1991-95). At both universities, Ostapina was a participant in the NCAA Division I Tournament.
As a player, Ostapina played four years for the University of Wisconsin Badgers and professionally in Sweden for Vasteras AC and the Malung Ishockey club. Prior to heading overseas, he played for the Chicago Cardinals in the Continental Hockey League.
Ostapina has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and public communication from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a master’s degree in education from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Ostapina also serves as assistant athletic director for compliance.
Ostapina and his wife Teresa have been married for 34 years and they have two children, Krysti and Kyle