Dan Muse

Dan Muse (born July 21, 1982) is an American professional ice hockey coach who is the head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Following four years playing college ice hockey, Muse began coaching at the high school and college levels, winning an National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship as an assistant coach at Yale in 2013. Muse subsequently won a Clark Cup championship with the Chicago Steel of the United States Hockey League (USHL) in 2017, his first head coaching job, before spending three seasons as an assistant with the NHL's Nashville Predators. He then spent three further seasons in various head coaching roles with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), winning a gold medal at the 2023 World U18 Championships, before returning to the NHL as a New York Rangers assistant in 2023. Ahead of the 2025–26 NHL season, Muse was named head coach of the Penguins.