After three years at Marblehead High School, Mark Marfione decided to look for work in special education a bit closer to his home in Somerville.

A part of that search also involved looking for a new boys hockey team to coach.

What he found was a position in the special education department in Brookline, and an offer to be the high school’s new boys hockey head coach.

“I live in Somerville and the commute to Marblehead was getting to be a little bit much,” Marfione said. “I’m always going to miss Marblehead but just having a new opportunity is nice and I think it’s always fun going into a new league and kind of figuring out the league and seeing what you got to do to compete.

“It’s important for me to coach and work in the same district. It just makes sense to be on the same schedules a

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