Bruce Racine
Former St. Louis Blue’s Goalie Bruce Racine founded the Racine Goalie Academy and has been coaching St Louis area Goalies since 2006!
Racine returned to St. Louis after a 15-year professional career, which included winning the 1991 Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins and 1989 Turner Cup with the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League (IHL).
Pro Career
Racine has been coached by NHL names such as Scotty Bowman, Vasily Tikhonov, Bob Johnson, Marc Crawford, Pat Burns, Roger Neilson, John Torchetti, Darryl Sutter, Mike Keenan, and Mike Kitchen.
Muskegon was his first pro team, and in its Turner Cup title season of 1989, Racine had a 37-11 record and 3.63 goals-against average in 51 games.
Bruce broke into the NHL with the Penguins in the 1990-91 season and was part of a squad that included hockey legends Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr and Paul Coffey. Racine won a Stanley Cup with that squad. He gave his ring to his father who proudly wears it every day.
Racine teamed with Blues great Grant Fuhr and Jon Casey in the 1995-’96 season. That Blues team included Hall of Famers Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull, Chris Pronger and Al MacInnis. Bruce played in 11 games. His first NHL game was at TD Boston Garden, the same city he went to College in. His first NHL save was against Hal of Famer Cam Neely. Bruce has that first save Puck!
Bruce also played for the Toronto Maple Leafs with Felix Potvin and San Jose Sharks with Mike Vernon.
Racine won back to back MVP honors for the Fort Wayne Komets while setting a franchise low goals against average in 1997/98 1998/99.
In 2000, Racine took his skills overseas, where he was one of the stars of the Finnish Elite League. In the 2000-’01 season, Racine played for Lukko Rauma under the goalie coaching of Ari Moisenen and was named Expert Player (MVP) of the Year, Three Star Player of the Year and Fair Player of the Year. He played in 54 games, with a 2.45 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage.
The following season he played for Ilves Tampere and played in 37 games. He had a 2.54 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage. Racine played 15 games for Ilves Tampere in the 2002-’03 season before an injury forced his retirement from the crease.
Bruce is a five-time recipient of the Community Service Award in the IHL and the American Hockey League (AHL).
College Contributions
Before turning pro, Racine spent four years helping establish the Northeastern Huskies’ winning tradition. He backstopped NU to the Hockey East championship in 1988 and Beanpot titles in 1985 and ’88, while earning MVP honors in all three tournaments. Racine was also a two-time All-American (1987 and ’88). He collected Hockey East All-Star honors in 1985 and ’87 and Hockey East All-Rookie honors in ’85 as well. Racine rewrote the Husky record book; establishing NU goaltending marks for wins (57), saves (3620), games played (126) and minutes played (7601).
Racine spent the 2004-’05 season with his alma mater, Northeastern University, as an Assistant Coach on the Former Boston Bruin, Bruce Crowder’s staff.
Since his illustrious collegiate hockey career, Racine has been inducted into the Beanpot Hall of Fame (1995) and the Northeastern Hall of Fame (2001). In 1994, he was voted to Hockey East’s first All-Decade Team. In 2009, he was voted to NCAA Hockey East 25 year Anniversary team as well as Northeastern’s 25 year Hockey East team. The latter honor saw his Jersey number 30 raised to the Huskies Mathews Arena rafters.
Greely Eagles
Personal
Bruce was born in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada and grew up in Canada’s capital city Ottawa. Bruce first played youth hockey for Riverside Park in Ottawa and then moved onto the the Greely Eagles and Metcalfe Mustangs. At 16 years of age Bruce played for the Ottawa Valley Selects and was then drafted into the CJHL by the Hawkesbury Hawkes. After playing 1 year in Hawkesbury he accepted a scholarship to Northeastern University in Boston.
In 2024 Bruce was inducted and had the honor of joining his father in the Hall Of Fame in his hometown of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.
The Ottawa, Ontario native was heavily influenced by his father, Moe, and mother, Donna. Moe ‘The Toe’ Racine was an offensive lineman and kicker for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League, winning 4 Grey Cups in a 17 year career.
Racine currently resides in the St. Louis area with his wife Lori, an Administrator with a Doctorate in Educational Leadership. Their daughter Logan, is a former dual sport athlete in Hockey and Soccer. Logan is currently a Forward for D1 Rider University in New Jersey of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference!
Bruce follows many sports including Hockey, Baseball, Football and Soccer. Bruce enjoys Golf and also studying maps and geography.
Those that know him call him ‘Racer’.
Bruce’s Favorites
NHL Montreal Canadiens, MLB Montreal Expos, NASL Montreal Manic!
*NHL goalie was 6 time Stanley Cup Champion, #29 Ken Dryden.
*MLB player was Expos longtime 3rd baseman #29 Tim Wallach.
CFL Team: Ottawa Rough Riders
*NFL Team: Dallas Cowboys
*Nascar Driver: 24 Jeff Gordon