Joe Palmer

Biography

Head Coach Nate Leaman has announced the hiring of Joe Palmer to the staff as an assistant coach on Aug. 7, 2023. Palmer spent the previous four seasons (2019-23) as a goaltending & video coach with the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League. As a member of the Syracuse staff, Palmer was responsible for the coaching and management of all Syracuse Crunch and Orlando Solar Bear (ECHL) goalies in-season, as well as assisting in the goalie portion of Development Camp. Palmer also put together detailed pre-scouts on opposing team’s goaltender’s tendencies, weaknesses, puck handling and shootout strategy. His responsibilities as video coach included - cut-up all video of future opponents (special teams and 5-on-5 tendencies) for head coach and assistant coaches and put together detailed scouts of upcoming opponents and game-plan sheets to be sent out to the team. Prior to Syracuse, Palmer spent 2015-19 as the Director of Hockey Operations for the Cornell University men’s hockey program and also served as an assistant/goaltending coach for Hamilton College. Palmer is the founder and primary instructor of Syracuse-based Palmer Goalie Systems, where he provides personal instruction and video analysis to more than 30-area goaltenders who compete at the AAA, prep school, junior and college levels. As a player, Palmer was a two-time gold medalist with the United States at the IIHF Under-18 World Championship and was later named to the U.S. team at the World Junior Championship in