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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 on.
Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL) coaches (3 P) Q. Quebec Nordiques coaches (25 P) S. San Jose Sharks coaches (39 P) Seattle Kraken coaches (9 P) St. Louis Blues coaches (55 P) T.
The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to 12 teams. [ 2 ] Since the franchise was established, the team has had 23 head coaches , [ 3 ] including Fred Shero , who coached the Flyers to two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975, and was the inaugural winner of the Jack Adams Award in ...
[10] Statistically, Tom Johnson was the most successful head coach, with a winning percentage of .738. [11] He is followed by Harry Sinden, who, averaging his two terms, had a winning percentage of .689. [12] The worst head coach statistically was Phil Watson, who, with a winning percentage of .268, only won 16 out of the 84 games he coached. [13]
Pages in category "Lists of ice hockey coaches" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. ... List of NHL head coaches; O.
Lester Patrick is the only head coach to have coached the Rangers to multiple Stanley Cups. Under head coach Peter Laviolette the Rangers set franchise records in wins (55) and points (114) in a single season, having set both records in the 2023–24 season. [24] The Jack Adams Award has never been awarded to the head coach of the New York Rangers.
Frank Carroll (brother of the team's first NHL coach, Dick Carroll) has the highest winning percentage of any Maple Leafs coach, with a .625 record from the 24 games he coached in his single 1920–21 season. Neither Mike Rodden nor interim coach Dick Duff, who coached only two games each in 1927 and 1980 respectively, won a game with the team.
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.