List of Dallas Stars head coaches

The Dallas Stars are an American professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team joined the NHL in 1967 as an expansion team as the Minnesota North Stars, but moved to Dallas in 1993. The Stars won their first Stanley Cup championship in 1999. Having first played at the Reunion Arena, the Stars have played their home games at the American Airlines Center since 2001. The Stars are owned by Tom Hicks, Brett Hull and Les Jackson are their general managers, and Brenden Morrow is the team captain.
There have been five head coaches for the Stars team. The team's first head coach was Bob Gainey, who has coached for four seasons. In the middle of the 1995–96 season, Gainey, who was then also the general manager for the Stars, fired himself as head coach and hired Ken Hitchcock to take over. Hitchcock is the team's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (503), the most regular-season game wins (277), the most regular-season points (626), the most playoff games coached (80), and the most playoff-game wins (47). Hitchcock is the only Stars coach to have won the Presidents' Trophy, winning it in 1997–98 and 1998–99, the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, winning it in 1998–99 and 1999–2000, and the Stanley Cup, winning it in the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals against the Buffalo Sabres. None of the Stars coaches have been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. Rick Wilson and Dave Tippett have each spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Stars. The current head coach of the Stars is Marc Crawford, who was hired after Tippett's firing.
==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 Stars
==Coaches==
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	Achievements 	Reference
#	Name 	Term 	GC 	W 	L 	T/OT 	PTS 	Win% 	GC 	W 	L 	Win% 	Achievements 	Reference
1	Bob Gainey 	– 	171 	70 	71 	30 	170 	.497 	14 	6 	8 	.429 	 	
2	Ken Hitchcock	– 	503 	277 	154 	72 	626 	.622 	80 	47 	33 	.588 	Presidents' Trophy winner (1998, 1999)Stanley Cup championship (1999)Clarence S. Campbell Bowl winners (1999, 2000)	
3	Rick Wilson* 	 	32 	13 	11 	8 	34 	.531 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
4	Dave Tippett 	– 	492 	271 	156 	65 	607 	.617 	47 	21 	26 	.447 	 	
5	Marc Crawford	–present	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
==Notes==
* A running total of the number of coaches of the Stars. 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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Dallas Stars head coaches