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The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league composed of 32 teams, founded in 1917. Each team is entitled to one head coach who handles the directing of games and team practices, while providing direction and strategy for their players and deciding which players will play in games and the lines they will play
The general manager is also normally the person who hires, fires, and supervises the head and assistant coaches for both the NHL team and often the club's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, amateur and professional scouts, and all other hockey operations staff.
John Tortorella [1] (born June 24, 1958) is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Tortorella was previously the head coach of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Vancouver Canucks. He led Tampa Bay ...
Laviolette is the fourth coach in NHL history to lead three teams to the Stanley Cup Finals. [2] On October 13, 2021, Laviolette won his 647th game as an NHL head coach, passing John Tortorella to become the winningest American-born head coach in league history. [3]
Jacques Demers is the only NHL coach to have won the Jack Adams Award twice with the same team. Scotty Bowman also won twice, though with different teams: the first time, he was coach of the Montreal Canadiens. [7] The current head coach of the Red Wings is Todd McLellan, who was hired in December 2024. [8]
Marshfield native Ryan Warsofsky has been been named head coach of the NHL's San Jose Sharks.. The former Patriot Ledger All-Scholastic (at Marshfield High before transferring to Cushing Academy ...
Maurice’s tenure as an NHL head coach began in the 1995-96 season with the Hartford Whalers, which eventually relocated to North Carolina and became the Carolina Hurricanes, and has included ...
a A running total of the number of coaches of the Capitals. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once. b Since the start of the 2005–06 season, the NHL has instituted a penalty shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period instead of ending in a tie.