
Martin Raymond joins the Bulldogs after serving as head coach of the McGill Redmen hockey team for the past 14 seasons. Last season, Raymond led the Redmen to an 18-8-2 record en route to an OUA East Conference title and a berth in the CIS National Championship for the second straight year. He has a lifetime record of 293-192-35 in the 520 games he has coached the Redmen including a 206-110-30 regular season mark. Raymond is a former winner of the Father George Kehoe memorial award as CIS coach of the year in men's hockey (2006) and is a four-time OUA Eastern coach of the year recipient (2000, 2005, 2006, 2009). Over the past three seasons, Raymond led the Redmen to a pair of OUA Eastern Conference titles including the 2008 Queen's Cup league championship for the first time since 1946.
Prior to his coaching career, the 42-year-old native of Pierrefonds, Quebec played five seasons with the Redmen finishing his career at McGill with 109 goals and 144 assists for 253 points in 154 games while earning all-conference honours three times and All-Canadian status in his final season (1991-1992). He won the Forbes Trophy in 1992 as McGill's male athlete of the year and the Bobby Bell Trophy as Team MVP following the 1991-1992 season and was also a member of the bronze medal-winning Team Canada squad at the 1991 Spengler Cup tournament. He played one season with EA Schongau in Germany after graduating from McGill with a Physical Education degree in 1992. Raymond returned to McGill in 1993 for a masters' degree in Physical Education, which he completed in 1996. Raymond and Bulldogs Head Coach Guy Boucher played and coached together at McGill.