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List of Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches

List of Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches

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The Pittsburgh Penguins are an American professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The franchise was established as one of six new franchises of the 1967 NHL expansion.[1] Since their foundation, the Penguins had played their home games at the Civic Arena, which was replaced by the Consol Energy Center in 2010.[2] The franchise is co-owned by Ronald Burkle and Mario Lemieux—the only player/owner in the NHL's modern era.[3] According to Forbes, the Penguins were the 11th most valuable NHL franchise, at US$222 million, in 2009.[4]

Michel Therrien was the Penguins' head coach from 2005 to 2009.

There have been 22 head coaches for the Penguins franchise.[5] The franchise's first head coach was Red Sullivan, former New York Rangers captain and coach.[6] Sullivan was replaced by future Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Red Kelly, after two seasons. Kelly was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a player,[7] and head coaches Craig Patrick, Bob Johnson, Scotty Bowman, and Herb Brooks were inducted as builders.[8] Eddie Johnston—who along with Patrick and Ken Schinkel served two tenures as head coach—leads Penguins' coaches in games coached. Bob Johnson led the Penguins to their first Stanley Cup victory in 1991, but was forced to retire due to health problems after the season—he died later that year.[9] Bowman succeeded Johnson and coached the team to its second Stanley Cup victory the following season. Michel Therrien won the Prince of Wales Trophy, as Eastern Conference champion, during the 2007–08 season.[10] Therrien was replaced the following season by Dan Bylsma.[11] Bylsma would lead the Penguins to their third Stanley Cup championship that same season. Bylsma was fired after the 2013-14 season and replaced by Mike Johnston.[12] Johnston was fired during the 2015-16 season and replaced by Michael (Mike) Barry Sullivan.[13] Sullivan led the Penguins to their fourth Stanley Cup victory that season and also their fifth Stanley cup victory in the following season in 2016-17

Key

Scotty Bowman was the Penguins' head coach from 1991 to 1993
# Number of coaches
Term Years spent as coach
Games Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
OTL Overtime/shootout losses[a]
Win% Winning percentage
PG Playoff games coached
PW Playoff wins
PL Playoff losses
PWin% Playoff winning percentage
* Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Penguins
* or † Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame († denotes induction as a builder, * denotes induction as a player)

Coaches

Note: Statistics are updated through the completion of the 2021–22 season.

More information #, Name[b] ...

Notes and references

  • a Beginning with the 2005–06 season, the NHL instituted a shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period, which prevented ties.[38]
  • b Head coaches with multiple terms are counted once; figures are career totals. For a specific order of the coaches see the Footnotes section.
  • c Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.
  • d Gene Ubriaco served as the Penguins' head coach to begin the 1989–90 season; the team began with a 10–14–2 record.[39] On December 5, 1989, Craig Patrick replaced Ubriaco as an interim head coach.[5][40] Under Patrick, the team went 22–26–6 and did not qualify for the playoffs.[39]
  • e After starting the 1996–97 season with a record of 31–26–5,[41] the Penguins went 1–8 in nine consecutive games in February and March 1997.[40] Coach Eddie Johnston was replaced by Craig Patrick, under whom the team finished the season 7–10–3 and lost in the first round of the playoffs four games to one.[41]
  • f Michel Therrien coached the Penguins to a 27–25–5 record to start the 2008–09 season, at which point he was replaced by Dan Bylsma.[11]
  • g Mike Johnston coached the Penguins to a 15–10–3 record to start the 2015–16 season, at which point he was replaced by Mike Sullivan.[36]
General
  • "Pittsburgh Penguins coaches". General Managers & Coaches. PittsburghPenguins.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-08. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
  • "Pittsburgh Penguins". History. CBS Sports. Archived from the original on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
Notes
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    "Kevin Constantine Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
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    "Herb Brooks Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
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    Molinari, Dave (15 February 2009). "Therrien fired, Bylsma in as Penguins' interim head coach". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
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    "Dan Bylsma Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
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    "Mike Johnston Coaching Record, Awards and Honors". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
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    "Penguins fire Johnston, name Sullivan coach". nhl.com. NHL. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
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    "Mike Sullivan Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
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    "Official Rules" (PDF). NHL.com. Lincoln Hockey and the National Hockey League. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
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  41. [41]
    "1996-97 Pittsburgh Penguins". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
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