Scott Munroe

Did You Know?

• Munroe announced his retirement on June 30, 2015, and became an assistant coach and goaltending co-ordinator with the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
• After two seasons with the Wildcats, he accepted an assistant role with NCAA Division III Trinity College of Connecticut for the 2017–18 season.

Playing career

Munroe played NCAA Division I hockey at the University of Alabama in Huntsville from 2002 to 2006. In 99 games for the Chargers, he holds the program's all-time career save percentage record at .918. He also set UAH season records for games played (31), minutes (1812:54), shots faced (1,084), and saves (993). During a game against the University of Minnesota on November 2, 2003, he set the Chargers' single-period records for saves and shots faced, stopping 33 of 34 shots. Following his senior year, Munroe was named College Hockey America co-Player of the Year, and he had previously earned CHA Rookie of the Year as a freshman. He signed with the Philadelphia Flyers on April 16, 2006. On April 24, 2008, Munroe was the winning goaltender in the longest AHL game ever played, a 142-minute, 58-second contest in which the Philadelphia Phantoms defeated the Albany River Rats 3–2 in five overtimes; Munroe made 65 saves. He signed a one-year deal with the New York Islanders on July 1, 2009. In the summer of 2011, he signed a one-year two-way contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and on August 23, 2012, he signed a one-year AHL deal with the Adirondack Phantoms. On June 17, 2013, Munroe signed a one-year contract with the Växjö Lakers of the Swedish Hockey League. Växjö announced on April 16, 2014, that they would not renew his contract. After his SHL season, he signed an AHL/ECHL two-way contract with the Springfield Falcons for the 2014–15 campaign, his final professional season.