Graeme Townshend comes to the American Hockey Academy as a weekly skills coach. Graeme is currently the only skating and skills coach in the world who has played, coached, and taught at every level of hockey there is. After playing a very successful college career for RPI as a captain, Townshend signed with the Boston Bruins in the NHL then went on to play parts of 5 seasons with the Bruins, N.Y. Islanders and Ottawa Senators.

Following his NHL career, he went on to coach for three years professionally. Townshend is the former Skating and Skills Coach for the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and San José Sharks. He currently runs a very successful hockey school in Maine.