Jack Capuano

Jack Capuano enters his first season as a member of the Senators coaching staff in 2019-20 after being named the team's associate coach on June 6, 2019. In conjunction with assistant coach Davis Payne, the pair bring greater than 600 games of NHL head coaching experience to Senators head coach D.J. Smith's staff.

Most recently, Capuano spent the last two seasons as associate coach with the Florida Panthers. Prior to his arrival in South Florida, Capuano spent more than 10 seasons coaching in the New York Islanders organization, serving as head coach of the Islanders for parts of seven seasons from 2010 to 2017 and head coach of the team's primary affiliate, the American Hockey League's Bridgeport Sound Tigers, for three-plus seasons from 2007 to 2010. He also spent one season (2005-06) as an assistant coach with the Islanders and one season (2006-07) as an assistant coach with the Sound Tigers. He compiled a record of 227-192-64 over 483 games as the Islanders' bench boss which sees him rank second to only Al Arbour among all-time Islanders' head coaches (and 68th among all-time NHL head coaches) in victories ahead of the 2019-20 campaign. Capuano also helped guide New York to three NHL post-season appearances, including a berth in 2013 which was the team's first since 2007.

Capuano began his coaching career in 1996-97 as an assistant coach with the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks (ECHL), before being named head coach and general manager of the Pee Dee Pride/Knoxville Cherokees (ECHL), a position he held until the 2005-06 season when he arrived in New York. A native of Cranston, R.I., he was inducted into the Rhode Island Hockey Hall of Fame on Sept. 6, 2019.

Internationally, Capuano served as an assistant coach with Team U.S.A. at both the 2016 World Cup and the 2017 IIHF World Championship where he helped the United States earn a record of 6-1-0 in the preliminary round before it was ousted by Finland in the tournament quarterfinals, in Cologne, Germany.

As a player, Capuano was selected in the fifth round (88th overall) by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1984 NHL Draft. An All-American defenceman at the University of Maine, he later appeared in six NHL games for Toronto, the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins over parts of three seasons from 1989 to 1992. He also played professionally with the AHL's Newmarket Saints, the Springfield Indians and the Maine Mariners in addition to the IHL's Milwaukee Admirals, where he was a league all-star, over a total of four seasons.

An off-season resident of Bangor, Me., Capuano is married to wife, Donna, and has a daughter, Adriana and a son, Anthony.