Mikhail Bryan is now in his third season as an assistant coach for the Tufts University Men’s Hockey staff.

Last season he was part of the staff as the Jumbos earned the #3 seed in NESCAC and advanced to the NESCAC Championship Game for the first time in program history. They finished the year with a 14-10-3 record, the program's most wins in a season since the 2000-01 team. The Jumbos had an eight-game winning streak during the season which was the longest at Tufts since the 1994-95 squad won a school-record 11 straight games. The Jumbos also won the Boston Landing Tournament at Warrior Ice Arena in early January.

Prior to Tufts, Bryan was an assistant for a 16-win Curry College team in 2021-2022. He coached defensemen and was in charge of the team’s penalty-killing efforts. The Colonels ranked 11th nationally with an 88.4 penalty kill percentage.

Bryan played collegiately at Suffolk University, where he was the Rams’ senior captain in 2018-19. He scored 25 points (15 assists) in 25 games as a forward that season, and finished his four-year career with 59 points (25 goals). A Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) all-star in 2017-18, he was also on the CCC All-Academic team and was an American Hockey Coaches Association All-American Scholar during his Suffolk career.

From Dayton, Ohio, Bryan has a finance degree from Suffolk (2019) and a master’s degree in sports leadership from Northeastern University (2021). 

Bryan played professionally for the Evansville Thunderbolts of the Southern Professional Hockey League in 2019.