List of St. Louis Blues head coaches

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Scotty Bowman coached the team from 1967 to 1970 and later in 1971.
Scotty Bowman coached the team from 1967 to 1970 and later in 1971.

There have been 20 head coaches of the St. Louis Blues, a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The team is named after the famous W. C. Handy song "St. Louis Blues". The team plays in the 19,150 capacity Scottrade Center arena in downtown St. Louis. William "Scotty" Bowman, Al Arbour, Leo Boivin, Emile Francis and Barclay Plager have had two stints as coach of the Blues.

Out of the 20 Blues coaches, 3 have made it into the hall of fame: Bowman, Francis and Arbour. Leo Boivin, Barclay Plager, Bob Plager and Mike Kitchen have all spent their entire careers coaching the Blues. With a winning percentage of .378, the best coach statistically was Joel Quenneville, who coached the Blues from 1997 to 2004. He is followed by Red Berenson, who spent his entire coaching career with the Blues coaching them from 1979 to 1982. The poorest coach statistically was Barclay Plager, who with a winning percentage of .310 spent his whole career with the Blues. He is followed by hall of fame coach Emile Francis, who in the 1982 season, lost 25 out of the 44 games he coached.

Contents

[edit] Key

      Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame
      Spent entire professional head coaching career with Islanders

# Number of coaches[1]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W–L % Win–loss percentage
* Spent entire professional head coaching career with the Islanders
† Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame

[edit] Coaches

# Name Term Regular Season Playoffs Reference
GC W L T W–L % GC W L T
1 Scotty Bowman† 1967 –1970 226 101 83 42 .539 46 24 22 0 [2]
2 Al Arbour† 1970–1971 50 21 15 14 .560 – – – – [3]
– Scotty Bowman† 1971 28 13 10 5 .553 6 2 4 0 [2]
3 Sid Abel† 1971 11 3 7 1 .318 – – – – [4]
4 Bill McCreary Sr. 1971 23 6 13 4 .348 – – – – [5]
- Al Arbour† 1971–1972 57 21 25 11 .447 12 4 7 0 [3]
5 Jean-Guy Talbot 1972–1974 120 52 53 15 .496 5 1 4 0 [6]
6 Lou Angotti 1974–1975 105 39 48 18 .457 2 0 2 0 [7]
7 Leo Boivin* 1975–1976 80 29 37 14 .450 3 1 2 0 [8]
8 Emile Francis† 1976–1977 80 32 39 9 .456 4 0 4 0 [9]
- Leo Boivin* 1977–1978 80 20 47 13 .331 – – – – [8]
9 Barclay Plager* 1978–1979 104 25 64 15 .310 – – – – [10]
10 Red Berenson* 1979–1982 204 100 72 32 .569 14 5 9 0 [11]
- Emile Francis† 1982 44 14 25 5 .375 10 5 5 0 [9]
- Barclay Plager* 1982–1983 48 15 21 12 .438 4 1 3 0 [10]
11 Jacques Demers 1983–1986 240 106 106 28 .500 33 16 17 0 [12]
12 Jacques Martin 1986 –1988 160 66 71 23 .484 16 7 9 0 [13]
13 Brian Sutter 1988–1992 320 153 124 43 .545 41 20 21 0 [14]
14 Bob Plager* 1992 11 4 6 1 .409 – – – – [15]
15 Bob Berry 1992–1994 157 73 63 21 .532 15 7 8 0 [16]
16 Mike Keenan 1994 –1996 163 75 66 22 .528 20 10 10 0 [17]
17 Jim Roberts 1996–1997 9 3 3 3 .500 – – – – [18]
18 Joel Quenneville 1997–2004 593 307 191 77 .598 73 35 38 0 [19]
19 Mike Kitchen* 2004–2006 131 38 70 4 .378 – – – – [20]
20 Andy Murray 2006–present – – – – – – – – – –

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Islanders. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  2. ^ a b Scotty Bowman. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  3. ^ a b Al Arbour. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  4. ^ Sid Abel. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  5. ^ Bill McCreary Sr.. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  6. ^ Jean-Guy Talbot. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  7. ^ Lou Angotti. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  8. ^ a b Leo Boivin. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  9. ^ a b Emile Francis. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  10. ^ a b Barclay Plager. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  11. ^ Red Berenson. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  12. ^ Jacques Demers. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  13. ^ Jacques Martin. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  14. ^ Brian Sutter. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  15. ^ Bob Plager. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  16. ^ Bob Berry. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  17. ^ Mike Keenan. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  18. ^ Jim Roberts. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  19. ^ Joel Quenneville. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
  20. ^ Mike Kitchen. Sports Reference LLC. Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
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