List of Montreal Canadiens head coaches

Hall of Famer Scotty Bowman won five Stanley Cup championships while coaching the Canadiens.

Officially known as Le Club de Hockey Canadien,^[1] the Montreal Canadiens (French: Les Canadiens de Montréal) are a Canadian professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). In 1909, the Canadiens were founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association (NHA). In 1917, the franchise joined the NHL, and is one of the Original Six teams.^[2] In their 100-year history, the Canadiens have won 24 Stanley Cup championships, and are the last Canadian team to have won the Stanley Cup, having done so in 1993.^[3] Having played in the Jubilee Arena (1909–1910,1918–1919), the Montreal Arena (1911–1918), the Mount Royal Arena (1919–1926), and the Montreal Forum (1926–1996), the Canadiens have played their home games at the Bell Centre, formerly known as the Molson Centre, since 1996.^[4][5] The Canadiens are owned by the Molson Family. The general manager position is filled by Marc Bergevin while their coaches consist of recently rehired Michel Therrien as their head coach, with Daniel Lacroix , Clement Jodoin and Jean-Jacques Daigneault as his assistant coaches and as well as Stephane Waite as the goalie coach. The current Captain of the Montreal Canadiens (as of the 2015-2016 Season) is Max Pacioretty

There have been 27 head coaches for the Canadiens franchise in the NHL. The team's first head coach in the NHL was Newsy Lalonde, who coached the Canadiens for eight NHL seasons in two stints. Although Dick Irvin coached the team for 15 seasons, Toe Blake, who coached two fewer seasons, is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (914), the most regular-season games won (500), the most regular-season points (1159), the most playoff games coached (119), and the most playoff games won (82). Blake has also won the most Stanley Cup championships with eight; Scotty Bowman has won five, Irvin has won three, Cecil Hart has won two, and Leo Dandurand, Claude Ruel, Al MacNeil, Jean Perron, and Jacques Demers have won one each. Lalonde won a Stanley Cup championship in 1915–16 while in the NHA.^[3] Bowman and Pat Burns have each been awarded the Jack Adams Award, in 1976–77 and 1988–89 respectively. Nine head coaches have spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Canadiens. Bowman and Dandurand have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as builders. Dandurand is the only coach to have spent his entire NHL head coaching career with the Canadiens and to have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder.

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Coaches

The Canadiens' first head coach in the NHL, Newsy Lalonde, coached the Canadiens for eight seasons in two stints.

Toe Blake won eight Stanley Cup championships in 13 years coaching the Canadiens.

Claude Julien coached the Canadiens for three seasons.

Guy Carbonneau was the head coach of the Canadiens from 2006 to 2009.

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2015-16 season. This list only includes NHL coaches, and not NHA seasons.

Notes

• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of the Canadiens. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
• ^b Before the 2005–06 season, the NHL instituted a penalty shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period, which prevented ties.^[36]
• ^c In ice hockey, the winning percentage is calculated by dividing points by maximum possible points.
• ^d Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.
• ^{e 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10} Newsy Lalonde, Babe Siebert, Sylvio Mantha, Dick Irvin, Toe Blake, Bernie Geoffrion, Jacques Lemaire, Jacques Laperriere, and Bob Gainey have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players.^[37]
• ^f Babe Siebert was named the head coach for the 1939–40 season, but died from drowning during the off-season.^[13]

References

General

• "Montreal Canadiens Coach Register". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2008-12-21. 

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