Before Lou Lamoriello would begin an NHL front office career that landed him in the Hockey Hall of Fame, before he would leave his beloved Providence College and turn a bottom-dwelling Devils franchise into a three-time Stanley Cup winner, he was a fixture on the New England hockey scene. He coached his alma mater Friars before taking over as the school’s athletic director, and he helped change the face of the local game as one of the founders (and first commissioner) of Hockey East.