List of Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches

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]

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.

#	Name^[b]	Term^[c]	Games	W	L	T	OTL	Win%	PG	PW	PL	PWin%	Achievements	Ref
1	George "Red" Sullivan	1967–1969	150	47	79	24	—	.393	—	—	—	—		^[14]
2	Red Kelly*	1969–1973	274	90	132	52	—	.423	14	6	8	.429		^[15]
3	Ken Schinkel	1973–1974, 1976–1977	203	83	92	28	—	.478	—	—	—	—		^[16]
4	Marc Boileau	1974–1976	151	66	61	24	—	.517	9	5	4	.555		^[17]
5	Johnny Wilson	1977–1980	240	91	105	44	—	.471	12	4	8	.333		^[18]
6	Eddie Johnston	1980–1983, 1993–1997	516	232	224	60	—	.508	46	22	24	.478		^[19]
7	Lou Angotti	1983–1984	80	16	58	6	—	.232	—	—	—	—		^[20]
8	Bob Berry	1984–1987	240	88	127	25	—	.419	—	—	—	—		^[21]
9	Pierre Creamer	1987–1988	80	36	35	9	—	.506	—	—	—	—		^[22]
10	Gene Ubriaco	1988–1989	106	50	47	9	—	.514	11	7	4	.636		^[23]
11	Craig Patrick†	1989–1990,^[d] 1997^[e]	74	29	36	9	—	.453	5	1	4	.200		^[24]
12	Bob Johnson†	1990–1991	80	41	33	6	—	.550	24	16	8	.667	Stanley Cup champions (1991)	^[25]
13	Scotty Bowman	1991–1993	164	95	53	16	—	.628	33	23	10	.696	Presidents' Trophy (1993) Stanley Cup champions (1992)	^[26]
14	Kevin Constantine	1997–1999	189	86	67	35	4	.511	19	8	11	.421		^[27]
15	Herb Brooks†	1999–2000	57	29	24	5	2	.570	11	6	5	.545		^[28]
16	Ivan Hlinka†	2000–2001	86	42	32	9	3	.558	18	9	9	.500		^[29]
17	Rick Kehoe	2001–2003	160	55	81	14	10	.419	—	—	—	—		^[30]
18	Ed Olczyk	2003–2005	113	31	64	14	4	.274	—	—	—	—		^[31]
19	Michel Therrien	2005–2009^[f]	272	135	105	—	32	.502	25	15	10	.600	Prince of Wales Trophy (2008)	^[32]
20	Dan Bylsma	2009–2014	401	252	117	—	32	.670	78	43	35	.551	Stanley Cup champions (2009) Jack Adams Award (2011)	^[33]^[34]
21	Mike Johnston	2014–2015^[g]	110	58	37	—	15	.595	5	1	4	.200		^[35]^[36]
22	Mike Sullivan	2015–present	405	237	126	—	42	.639	82	44	38	.537	Stanley Cup champions (2016, 2017)	^[37]^[36]

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.

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