DANBURY, CONN. — ECAC Hockey is proud to announce Dartmouth College’s Reid Cashman as the 2025-26 Tim Taylor Coach of the Year Award as announced on Thursday night at the awards ceremony in Lake Placid, New York. 

In his 5th season behind the bench for the Big Green, Coach Cashman led the team to a 19-7-4 overall record (12-5-4 in the ECAC) in the regular season, clinching the second seed in the ECAC Hockey Tournament. Dartmouth began the season on November 1st and went on an impressive 11-game win streak, the first since the 1942-43 season, when Dartmouth started 11-0-0. With the Big Green currently solidified at the top of the rankings, Coach Cashman has the program on the verge of its first NCAA tournament appearance since 1980. A tournament berth would snap a 46-year drought, the longest active gap for any program with a prior NCAA appearance.

Before his time at Dartmouth, Cashman spent two seasons as an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals, from 2018 to 2020, and two seasons with the Hershey Bears, from 2016 to 2018. No stranger to the ECAC, Cashman was a 2007 Quinnipiac graduate, where he was an All-American, a First-Team All-ECAC Hockey selection, and a 2005 Hobey Baker Top-10 Finalist. Following his professional career, he returned to Quinnipiac as an assistant coach for five seasons, helping the Bobcats  win the conference’s regular-season title three times, reach two Frozen Fours, and finish as national finalists in 2013 and 2016.

Cashman was named the 22nd head coach in Dartmouth Men’s Ice Hockey history in June of 2020. In his third season, Cashman was named the 2023-24 Tim Taylor Coach of the Year after the Big Green had one of their most successful years. They finished the regular season at 13-10-9 on a six-game win streak, earning an opening round bye in the playoffs for the first time since 2010-11, and punched their ticket to Lake Placid for the first time since 2015-16. 

Cashman will be behind the bench Friday during Dartmouth’s semifinal matchup against Clarkson at 4pm, where the Big Green look to secure their spot in the Championship Game to win the program's first ECAC Hockey Tournament Title.

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