List of Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches

The Pittsburgh Penguins are an American professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Atlantic 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. Since their foundation, the Penguins have played their home games at the Mellon Arena, which is scheduled to be replaced by the Consol Energy Center in 2010. The franchise is co-owned by Ronald Burkle and Mario Lemieux—the only player/owner in the NHL's modern era. According to Forbes, the Penguins were the 18th most valuable NHL franchise, at $195 million, in 2008.
There have been 20 head coaches for the Penguins franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Red Sullivan, former New York Rangers captain and coach. 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, and head coaches Craig Patrick, Bob Johnson, Scotty Bowman, and Herb Brooks were inducted as builders. Eddie Johnston—who along with Patrick and Ken Schinkel served two tenures as head coach—leads Penguins' coaches in games coached (516), wins (232), losses (224), and ties (60). Bowman leads coaches in winning percentage (.628) and playoff victories (33). 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. 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. Therrien was replaced the following season by current head coach Dan Bylsma. Blysma would lead the Penguins to their third Stanley Cup championship that same season.
==Key==
# 	Number of coaches
Term 	Years spent as coach
Games 	Games coached
W 	Wins
L 	Losses
T 	Ties
OTL 	Overtime/shootout losses
Win% 	Winning percentage
PG 	Playoff games coached
PW 	Playoff wins
PL 	Playoff losses
PWin% 	Playoff winning percentage
* 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 2008–09 season.
# 	Name	Term 	Games	W 	L 	T 	OTL	Win%	PG	PW	PL	PWin%	Achievements 	Ref
1 	 	1967–1969 	150 	47 	79 	24	 	.393	 	 	 	 	 	
2 	 	1969–1973 	274 	90 	132	52	 	.423	14	 	 	.429 	 	
3 	 	1973–1974,1976–1977	203 	83 	92 	28	 	.478	 	 	 	 	 	
4 	 	1974–1976 	151 	66 	61 	24	 	.517	 	 	 	.555 	 	
5 	 	1977–1980 	240 	91 	105	44	 	.471	12	 	 	.333 	 	
6 	 	1980–1983,1993–1997	516 	232	224	60	 	.508	46	22	24	.478 	 	
7 	 	1983–1984 	80 	16 	58 	 	 	.232	 	 	 	 	 	
8 	 	1984–1987 	240 	88 	127	25	 	.419	 	 	 	 	 	
9 	 	1987–1988 	80 	36 	35 	 	 	.506	 	 	 	 	 	
10	 	1988–1989 	106 	50 	47 	 	 	.514	11	 	 	.636 	 	
11	 	1989–1990,1997 	74 	29 	36 	 	 	.453	 	 	 	.200 	 	
12	 	1990–1991 	80 	41 	33 	 	 	.550	24	16	 	.667 	1991 Stanley Cup championship 	
13	 	1991–1993 	164 	95 	53 	16	 	.628	33	23	10	.696 	1992 Stanley Cup championship 	
14	 	1997–1999 	189 	86 	67 	35	 	.511	19	 	11	.421 	 	
15	 	1999–2000 	57 	29 	24 	 	 	.570	11	 	 	.545 	 	
16	 	2000–2001 	86 	42 	32 	 	 	.558	18	 	 	.500 	 	
17	 	2001–2003 	160 	55 	81 	14	10 	.419	 	 	 	 	 	
18	 	2003–2005 	113 	31 	64 	14	 	.274	 	 	 	 	 	
19	 	2005–2009 	272 	135	105	 	32 	.502	25	15	10	.600 	2008 Prince of Wales Trophy championship	
20	 	2009–present 	25 	18 	3 	 	4 	.800	24	16	8 	.666 	2009 Stanley Cup championship 	
== Footnotes ==
* Before 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.
* Head coaches with multiple terms are counted once; figures are career totals. For a specific order of the coaches see the Footnotes section.
* Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season. 
* Gene Ubriaco served as the Penguins' head coach to begin the 1989–90 season; the team began with a 10–14–2 record. On December 5, 1989, Craig Patrick replaced Ubriaco as an interim head coach. Under Patrick, the team went 22–26–6 and did not qualify for the playoffs.
* After starting the 1996–97 season with a record of 31–26–5, the Penguins went 1–8 in nine consecutive games in February and March 1997. 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.
* 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.
* Dan Blysma's statistics will be updated upon the completion of the 2008–09 season.
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Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches