List of Arizona Coyotes head coaches

The Arizona Coyotes are an American professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team started out as a charter member of the World Hockey Association (WHA), and were named the Winnipeg Jets. The WHA then merged with the NHL in 1979, the Jets relocated to Phoenix in 1996, and were renamed the Phoenix Coyotes. Having first played at America West Arena, the Coyotes have played their home games at the Gila River Arena, formerly named the Glendale Arena and the Jobing.com Arena, since 2003. The Coyotes are owned by IceArizona.
There have been seven head coaches for the Coyotes team. The team's first head coach was Don Hay, who coached for one season. Dave Tippett is the team's all-time leader for the most regular season games coached (622), the most regular season game wins (282), the most regular season points (647), the most playoff games coached (27), and the most playoff game wins (12). Tippett was the head coach of the Coyotes from the 2009–10 season until the end of 2016–17 season. The Jack Adams Award has been awarded twice to a Coyotes' coach; Bob Francis for the 2001–02 season and Tippett for the 2009–10 season. None of the Coyotes coaches have been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder, though Wayne Gretzky has been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player in 1999. Francis and Gretzky have each spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Coyotes. The team's most recent head coach was Rick Tocchet, who held the position from 2017 to 2021.
==Key==
# 	Number of coaches
GC 	Games coached
W 	Wins = 2 points
L 	Losses = 0 points
T 	Ties = 1 point
OT 	Overtime/shootout losses = 1 point
PTS 	Points
Win%	Winning percentage
* 	Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Coyotes
==Coaches==
Note: Statistics are correct through the 2020–21 season.
#	Name 	Term 	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Achievements 	Reference
#	Name 	Term 	GC 	W 	L 	T/OT 	PTS 	Win% 	GC 	W 	L 	Win% 	Achievements 	Reference
1	Don Hay 	1996–1997	82 	38 	37 	7 	83 	.506 	7 	3 	4 	.429 	 	
2	Jim Schoenfeld	1997–1999	164 	74 	66 	24 	172 	.524 	13 	5 	8 	.385 	 	
3	Bob Francis* 	1999–2004	390 	165 	144 	81 	411 	.527 	10 	2 	8 	.200 	2001–02 Jack Adams Award winner	
4	Rick Bowness 	2004 	20 	2 	12 	6 	10 	.250 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
5	Wayne Gretzky*	2005– 	328 	143 	161 	24 	310 	.473 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
6	Dave Tippett 	2009– 	622 	282 	257 	83 	647 	.520 	27 	12 	15 	.444 	2009–10 Jack Adams Award winner	
7	Rick Tocchet 	2017– 	290 	125 	131 	34 	284 	.490 	9 	4 	5 	.444 	 	
==Notes==
* A running total of the number of coaches of the Coyotes. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
* 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.
* Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.
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