As an eight year NHL veteran and 1996 & 1998 NCAA Division I National Champion with the Michigan Wolverines, Coach Muckalt hails from Vancouver, British Columbia and now resides in Valencia, CA and has been named the Head Coach of the Valencia Flyers Junior A Hockey Club playing at the Ice Station in the WSHL (Western States Hockey League). Having played with the Vancouver Canucks, N.Y. Islanders, Ottawa Senators and most recently the Minnesota Wild, he has had the opportunity to play for and learn from some of the best coaches in the game today, including Mike Keenan, Jacques Lemaire, Jacques Martin and Red Berenson. During his career Coach Muckalt was considered a power forward with a knack for the net. He was the runner up for the prestigious Hobey Baker Award annually given to the Nations outstanding division I hockey player. He was twice named the NHL’s rookie of the month in the 1998/1999 campaign.

As the new Head Coach of the Flyers Bill brings a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge to the Flyers program. His philosophy is that of a well conditioned, disciplined team with focus being on hard work and integrity. Having had success at Eastern Michigan University first as an assistant and then as a head coach, Bill knows what it takes to make a hockey team successful. 

   “I am looking forward to the opportunity I have here to not only bring a WSHL Championship to Valencia but to be able to grow hockey in general for Southern Ca. I am excited to get started and am truly looking forward to working with not only the core from last year’s team but all of the new talent that we will be bringing in this season. I am truly amazed at the talent not only here at the Ice Station but in Southern Ca as a whole”

Selected by Vancouver Canucks round 9 #221 overall 1994 NHL Entry Draft