Dan Muse

Muse was born in Canton, Massachusetts, on July 21, 1982. Muse played ice hockey from a young age, despite limited opportunities during part of his childhood living on a farm in northern California; following his family's move to Alabama, Muse was partly mentored at a Birmingham Bulls youth camp by minor-league defenseman Paul Marshall. Muse's family also spent time in Chicago and Worcester, Massachusetts, before moving to Canton when Muse was in eighth grade. After playing high school ice hockey at Vermont Academy, Muse subsequently attended Stonehill College, playing four years at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III level for the Chieftains/Skyhawks under head coach Scott Harlow and serving as an alternate captain his senior year. Following his time at Stonehill, Muse nearly attended law school, and briefly taught history at Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree, Massachusetts. ==Coaching career==

College and juniors During his time as a teacher at Archbishop Williams, Muse also served as an assistant coach for Milton Academy's ice hockey team in nearby Milton. He subsequently left his teaching career to coach full-time, spending the 2007–08 season working as an assistant coach at Division III Williams College under Bill Kangas, before jumping to NCAA Division I with Sacred Heart of the Atlantic Hockey conference for the 2008–09 season. and the program's first national championship in 2013. Following the 2014–15 season, Muse departed the Bulldogs to take his first head coaching job with the Chicago Steel of the junior-level United States Hockey League (USHL). In three seasons with Nashville, Muse primarily ran the team's penalty kill, and coached multiple other future NHL players, including Logan Cooley and Rutger McGroarty. Once again coaching the penalty kill, Despite this, Muse was reportedly offered the opportunity to interview with the new Rangers coaching staff. Pittsburgh Penguins On June 4, 2025, Muse was named head coach of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins, succeeding Mike Sullivan as the 23rd head coach in franchise history. International Muse's first work with USA Hockey came at the 2013 World Junior Championships with the United States men's junior team, where he served as video coach; after the U.S. won the gold medal, he subsequently reprised the role for the 2014 tournament. winning a gold medal in the latter. ==Personal life==

As of 2020, Muse resided in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and their four children. ==Head coaching record==