Mougenel voted Pieri Award winner as AHL coach of the year 2025-26 | TheAHL.com
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Ryan Mougenel of the Providence Bruins was the winner Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award as the AHL coach of the year for the 2025-26 season.
This award is voted on by fellow coaches and the media representing each of the 32 cities in the division.
In his eighth season with the Bruins, including the last five as head coach, Mougenel guided Providence to a 54-16-2-0 record, good for 110 points and the fourth-highest field goal percentage (.764) in AHL history, while capturing the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy as the AHL regular season champion. Providence finished sixth in the league in scoring (3.32 goals per game) and second in defense (2.25 goals per game), amassing a plus-77 goal differential that was their highest since their 1998-99 Calder Cup season. Mougenel continued to oversee the development of the Bruins’ prospects, including 11 players who competed against Boston this season, among them. Matthew Poitras, Michael Callahan, Jonathan Aspirot, Alex Steves, Victor Söderström, Lukas Reichel and First Team AHL All-Star Michael DiPietro.
Mougenel, 50, joined the Bruins organization as an assistant coach at Providence in 2018 and was promoted to head coach in Aug. 13, 2021, compiling a record of 217-103-26-14 (.658) – the best mark in the AHL over the past five years. He has served as an assistant in the San Jose Sharks organization and their AHL affiliates in Worcester (2014-15) and San Jose (2015-18), and the Hershey Bears in 2013-14. A native of Scarborough, Ont., Mougenel spent the better part of six years playing in the ECHL, winning a championship with Atlantic City in 2003. He also played 20 games in the AHL with the Rochester Americans in 1999-2000.
The Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award, first presented in 1968, honors Mr. The late Pieri, a longtime AHL contributor as owner and general manager of the Providence Reds and a member of the American Hockey League Hall of Fame. Mougenel is the fourth Providence coach to receive the award, following the Bruins. Scott Gordon (2008) and Peter Laviolette (1999) and the Reds’ John Muckler (1975).
Other previous award winners include Frank Mathers (1969), Fred Shero (1970), Al MacNeil (1972, 1977), Bob McCammon (1978, 1981), Jacques Demers (1983), Bill Dineen (1985, 1986), Larry Pleau (1987), Mike Milbury (1988), John Paddock (1988), Marc Crawford (1993), Barry Trotz (1994), Robbie Freek (1995, 1996), Claude Julien again Geoff Ward (2003), Claude Noel (2004), Randy Cunneyworth (2005), Kevin Dineen (2006), Scott Arniel (2009), John Hynes (2011), John Cooper (2012), Willie Desjardins (2013), Jeff Blashill (2014), Mike Stothers (2015), Rick Kowalsky (2016), Roy Sommer (2017), Pascal Vincent (2018, ’25), Mike Vellucci (2019), Karl Taylor (2020), Spencer Carbery (2021) and Todd Nelson (2024).
Operating since 1936 and celebrating its 90th season this year, the American Hockey League continues to serve as the top development league for all 32 National Hockey League teams. Nearly 90 percent of all players competing in the NHL are AHL graduates, and over the years the American Hockey League has been home to more than 100 honorary members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The winner of the 2025-26 Eddie Shore Award (outstanding defenseman) will be announced on Tuesday.
