 Busniuk returned to Binghamton to serve as an assistant coach with the Ottawa Senators' AHL team, the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League from 2003 to 2010.Busniuk then returned home to Thunder Bay, where he served in a similar capacity with the Lakehead Thunderwolves, eventually filling in as an interim coach after Joel Scherban was fired four games into the 2012-13 season.He also taught at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, an all First Nations school in Thunder Bay.