Mike Finnegan joined the RPI Men's Hockey coaching staff as the Assistant Director of Hockey Operations in December 2025. Finnegan last worked with the University of Connecticut men's ice hockey program as the team's video coordinator from 2021-24, helping the Huskies to a 55-47-5 record in his three seasons in Storrs. In his first season, the Huskies reached the Hockey East Championship, defeating then-No. 16 Boston University and then-No. 10 Northeastern University to reach their first-ever conference championship contest.
Finnegan's three seasons at AlC were among the best in program history. AlC went a combined 59-33-2 from 2019-21, including a 50-16-2-1-0-0 mark in Atlantic Hockey play. AIC won its first-ever AHA regular season title and then its first Jack Riley Memorial Trophy in 2019 before knocking out then-No. 1 St. Cloud State University in its NCAA Tournament debut.
The Yellow Jackets repeated as AHA regular season champions in 2019-20, although the COVID-19 Pandemic forced the cancellation of the AHA Tournament, and repeated again in 2020-21, winning the Jack Riley Memorial Trophy a second time.
In those three seasons, AlC earned fifteen AHA All-Conference selections, including seven First-Team honors, and the program's first two AHCA All-American selections in Blake Christensen and Brennan Kapcheck, the latter of whom also became AIC's first-ever AHA Player of the Year.
