List of Chicago Blackhawks head coaches

The Chicago Blackhawks are an American professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team was first named the "Chicago Black Hawks", until 1986, when spelling found in the original franchise documents spelled the franchise name as the "Chicago Blackhawks", making the team change its name in response.Diamond, Dan (1991). The Official National Hockey League 75th Anniversary Commemorative Book. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 291. ISBN 0771067275 The team is also referred to as the "Hawks". The Blackhawks began their NHL play in the 1926–27 season as an expansion team with the Detroit Cougars and the New York Rangers, and is one of the Original Six teams. The franchise has three Stanley Cup championships, yet has a 49-season championship drought, the longest active streak in the NHL. Having played in the Chicago Coliseum (1926–1929) and the Chicago Stadium (1929–1994), the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center since 1994. The Blackhawks are owned by Rocky Wirtz; Dale Tallon is the general manager, and Jonathan Toews is the team captain.
There have been 37 head coaches for the Blackhawks. The franchise's first head coach was Pete Muldoon, who coached for 44 games in the 1926–27 season. However, he is also well remembered for allegedly "putting a curse" on the Blackhawks, which stipulated that the team would never finish in first in the NHL. The Blackhawks never had a first-place finish until 40 years after that incident. Hughie Lehman, originally the team's goaltender, became the Blackhawks' third head coach after yelling at the first Blackhawks owner, Frederic McLaughlin, that his proposed plays were "the craziest bunch of junk [he had] ever seen". 
Orval Tessier became the only head coach to have been awarded the Jack Adams Award with the Blackhawks by winning it in the 1982–83 season. Tommy Gorman, Tommy Ivan, and Rudy Pilous are the only Blackhawks head coaches to have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. Gorman, Bill Stewart, and Pulios are the only coaches to have won a Stanley Cup championship as the head coach of the Hawks. 
Billy Reay, the Blackhawks' head coach for 14 seasons, is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season and playoff games coached and wins, with 1012 regular-season games coached, 516 regular-season game wins, 117 playoff games coached, and 57 playoff game wins. Twenty-three head coaches spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Blackhawks. Darryl Sutter and Brian Sutter are the only pair of brothers to have coached the Blackhawks; both coached the Hawks for three seasons each. 
Joel Quenneville has been the head coach of the Blackhawks since the firing of Denis Savard during the 2008–09 season.
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==Key==
# 	Number of coaches
GC 	Games coached
W 	Wins = Two points
L 	Losses = No points
T 	Ties = One point
OT 	Overtime/shootout losses = One point
PTS 	Points
Win%	Winning percentage
Ref 	Reference
* 	Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Blackhawks
† 	Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder
‡ 	Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Blackhawksand have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder
==Coaches==
thumb|upright|Mike Keenan was the Blackhawks head coach for four seasons.
Note: Statistics are correct through the 2008–09 season.
# 	Name 	Term 	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Achievements 	Ref
# 	Name 	Term 	GC 	W 	L 	T/OT 	PTS 	Win% 	GC 	W 	L 	T 	Win% 	Achievements 	Ref
1 	Pete Muldoon* 	 	44 	19 	22 	3 	41 	.466 	2 	0 	1 	1 	.250 	 	
2 	Barney Stanley* 	 	23 	4 	17 	2 	10 	.217 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
3 	Hughie Lehman* 	 	21 	3 	17 	1 	7 	.167 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
4 	Herb Gardiner* 	 	32 	5 	23 	4 	14 	.219 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
5 	Dick Irvin 	 	12 	2 	6 	4 	8 	.333 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
6 	Tom Shaughnessy* 	 	21 	10 	8 	3 	23 	.548 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
7 	Bill Tobin* 	 	23 	11 	10 	2 	24 	.522 	2 	0 	1 	1 	.250 	 	
— 	Dick Irvin 	 	44 	24 	17 	3 	51 	.580 	9 	5 	3 	1 	.611 	 	
— 	Bill Tobin* 	 	48 	18 	19 	11 	47 	.490 	2 	1 	1 	0 	.500 	 	
8 	Emil Iverson* 	 	21 	8 	7 	6 	22 	.524 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
9 	Godfrey Matheson*	 	2 	0 	2 	0 	0 	.000 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
10	Tommy Gorman† 	– 	73 	28 	28 	17 	73 	.500 	8 	6 	1 	1 	.813 	1933–34 Stanley Cup championship	
11	Clem Loughlin* 	– 	144 	61 	63 	20 	142 	.493 	4 	1 	2 	1 	.375 	 	
12	Bill Stewart* 	– 	69 	22 	35 	12 	56 	.406 	10 	7 	3 	— 	.700 	1937–38 Stanley Cup championship	
13	Paul Thompson* 	– 	272 	104 	127 	41 	249 	.458 	19 	7 	12 	— 	.368 	 	
14	Johnny Gottselig*	– 	187 	62 	105 	20 	144 	.385 	4 	0 	4 	— 	.000 	 	
15	Charlie Conacher*	– 	162 	56 	84 	22 	134 	.414 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
16	Ebbie Goodfellow*	– 	140 	30 	91 	19 	79 	.282 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
17	Sid Abel 	– 	140 	39 	79 	22 	100 	.357 	7 	3 	4 	— 	.429 	 	
18	Frank Eddolls* 	 	70 	13 	40 	17 	43 	.307 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
— 	Dick Irvin 	 	70 	19 	39 	12 	50 	.357 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
19	Tommy Ivan† 	– 	103 	26 	56 	21 	73 	.354 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
20	Rudy Pilous‡ 	– 	387 	162 	151 	74 	398 	.514 	40 	18 	22 	— 	.450 	1960–61 Stanley Cup championship	
21	Billy Reay 	– 	1012 	516 	335 	161 	1193 	.589 	117 	57 	60 	— 	.487 	 	
22	Bill White* 	 	46 	16 	24 	6 	38 	.413 	2 	0 	2 	— 	.000 	 	
23	Bob Pulford 	– 	160 	61 	65 	34 	156 	.488 	4 	0 	8 	— 	.000 	 	
24	Eddie Johnston 	 	80 	34 	27 	19 	87 	.544 	7 	3 	4 	— 	.429 	 	
25	Keith Magnuson* 	– 	132 	49 	57 	26 	124 	.470 	3 	0 	3 	— 	.000 	 	
— 	Bob Pulford 	 	28 	12 	14 	2 	26 	.464 	15 	8 	7 	— 	.533 	 	
26	Orval Tessier* 	– 	213 	99 	93 	21 	219 	.514 	18 	9 	9 	— 	.500 	1982–83 Jack Adams Award winner 	
— 	Bob Pulford 	– 	187 	84 	77 	26 	194 	.519 	22 	9 	13 	— 	.409 	 	
27	Bob Murdoch 	 	80 	30 	41 	9 	69 	.431 	5 	1 	4 	— 	.200 	 	
28	Mike Keenan 	– 	320 	153 	126 	41 	347 	.542 	60 	33 	27 	— 	.550 	 	
29	Darryl Sutter 	– 	216 	110 	80 	26 	246 	.569 	26 	11 	15 	— 	.423 	 	
30	Craig Hartsburg 	– 	246 	104 	102 	40 	248 	.504 	16 	8 	8 	— 	.500 	 	
31	Dirk Graham* 	 	59 	16 	35 	8 	40 	.339 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
32	Lorne Molleken* 	– 	47 	18 	19 	10 	46 	.489 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
— 	Bob Pulford 	 	58 	28 	24 	6 	62 	.534 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
33	Alpo Suhonen* 	 	82 	29 	41 	12 	70 	.427 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
34	Brian Sutter 	– 	246 	91 	103 	52 	234 	.476 	5 	1 	4 	— 	.200 	 	
35	Trent Yawney* 	– 	103 	33 	55 	15 	81 	.393 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
36	Denis Savard* 	– 	147 	65 	66 	16 	146 	.497 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
37	Joel Quenneville 	–present	78 	45 	22 	11 	101 	.647 	17 	9 	8 	— 	.529 	 	
==Notes==
* A running total of the number of coaches of the Blackhawks; 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.
* In ice hockey, the winning percentage is calculated by dividing points by maximum possible points.
* Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.
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