When Adam Nightingale met with Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller to discuss the hockey head coach job opening at MSU, Nightingale told Haller, “If I’m here because I’m an alum, I don’t want the job.”
Here is his resumé: Nightingale has worked as a video coach in the NHL (including under former Detroit Red Wings head coach Jeff Blashill where he was promoted to assistant coach) and he was the head coach of Team USA’s National Team Development Program. He was also Michigan State’s director of hockey operations from 2010 to 2014.