Son of former Worcester IceCat Darren Rumble steps into first pro hockey coaching position
WORCESTER — The Railers named Chris Rumble assistant coach for the 2025-26 season, the team announced.
The 35-year-old Rumble comes to Worcester for his first stint as a professional hockey coach. Rumble spent the previous three seasons as an on-ice official in the American Hockey League, ECHL, Professional Women's Hockey League and United States Hockey League. That followed a seven-year pro-career as a defenseman spanning the ECHL, AHL, DEL, Norway, and Austria.
Rumble is the son of former Worcester IceCat Darren Rumble, who played in the city from 1999 to 2002 while recording 79 points in 152 games.
"We’re very excited to have Chris aboard," Railers coach/general manager Nick Tuzzolino said in a statement. "Our relationship goes back many years to when we were playing together in Binghamton. He comes from a long family history of coaching and hockey knowledge, and we are super grateful to now have that wealth of knowledge and experience at our disposal.
"His unique path going from playing to refereeing to coaching offers a unique outlook on the game and a different perspective on how to handle certain situations," Tuzzolino added. "We are thrilled to have Chris' growing family be a part of the culture that we've built in Worcester."
"I'm eager to come to Worcester and continue the growth of the team that was initiated by Nick last season," Rumble said. "He's someone that I've done work with in the past and someone that I know has the same hockey mind as myself. His style of leadership is the new era of coaching, and he's someone I'm excited to learn from."
Rumble played in 75 games in the ECHL, collecting 44 points from 2015-17 between the Evansville Icemen and Wichita Thunder. He had 27 pointsin 56 games played for the Binghamton Senators before playing in Europe for the next five seasons. Rumble was an Atlantic Hockey America tournament champion with Canisius College during the 2012-13 season, the program's first conference championship.
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