Hockey Directors
OUR NETWORK OF HOCKEY DIRECTORS
The success of the Chicago Blues Hockey Club can be largely attributed to our professional staff of hockey directors. We are one of the only Tier II hockey programs in the United States that employs five full-time hockey directors. One director is assigned to each team from Mites to Midgets. All of the Chicago Blues head coaches work in collaboration with their team's director. The hockey directors assist the head coaches with practices and skills sessions and are on the bench for the majority of the games. Please contact one of our hockey directors below for more information.
Chris Imes' coaching background includes tenures with the Chicago Steel of the USHL and the Pittsburgh Forge in the NAHL. Chris also coached in Europe, where he served as head coach of Hockey Club Olympia of the Slovenian National League. He played college hockey at the University of Maine, where as a defenseman he was named 1995 USA Hockey College Player of the Year and was a runner-up for the 1995 Hobey Baker Award. He also played on the 1994 USA Olympic team in Lillehammer, Norway. Other honors include induction into the University of Maine Athletic Hall of Fame and being named to the 1990-2000 NCAA Hockey East All-Decade Team. After college, Chris played professional hockey with the International Hockey League’s Minnesota Moose and the Olympia Green Dragons of the Alpine League in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Anthony Monte became a club director in 2014. A Chicago native who was born in 1984, Anthony also has the distinction of being our first director who played for the club. He played with the Blues as a Pee Wee Major in 1996. Anthony played NCAA D-III hockey at Nichols College from 2005-2009, where he graduated with a degree in business management and economics. He was an alternate captain his last three seasons and a four-time New England Hockey Writers all star. He finished his career as the No. 2 all-time scorer at Nichols College with 159 points. Anthony then spent three years playing professional ice hockey before taking over as the hockey director at Fox Valley in 2012.
