Ryan Durocher joins the Merrimack Men's Hockey team for his first season as an assistant coach in 2025-26.

Durocher played collegiate hockey for four seasons at SUNY-Cortland, earning a bachelor's degree in sports management, before being hired for his first coaching job as he joined Southern New Hampshire University in 2012-13, a post he held for two seasons, where he also completed his masters in sports management before coaching in the EHL with the New England Wolves in 2014-15. He then became a member of the staff at St. Lawrence for two seasons, then headed to the USHL as an assistant coach at Sioux City. Durocher then rejoined the college ranks as he went to Robert Morris in the summer of 2020, spent 2021 with Sacred Heart, joined with Colorado College in 2023 and then rejoined Robert Morris for the last two seasons before joining the Warriors.