List of Los Angeles Kings head coaches

The Los Angeles Kings are an American professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. 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 with five other teams, and won their only Western Conference championship in 1993. Having first played at The Forum, the Kings have played their home games at the Staples Center since 1999. The Kings are owned by Philip Anschutz and Edward P. Roski, Dean Lombardi is their general manager, and Dustin Brown is the team captain.
There have been 22 head coaches for the Kings. The franchise's first head coach was Red Kelly, who coached for two seasons. Andy Murray is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (480), the most regular-season game wins (215), and the most regular-season Points (519); Tom Webster is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (28); Barry Melrose is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff-game wins (13), and the highest playoff winning percentage (.542), which is the only one over .500 out of the Kings' head coaches. Rogatien Vachon, who coached the Kings for three non-consecutive stints, is the Kings' all-time leader for the least regular-season games coached, with 10. Melrose is the only coach to have won a conference championship with the Kings, in the 1993 Stanley Cup playoffs. Bob Pulford is the only head coach to have been awarded the Jack Adams Award with the Kings, having won it in the 1974–75 season. Larry Regan and Don Perry have spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Kings. Roger Neilson, who coached the Kings for 28 games, is the only Kings head coach to have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. Darryl Sutter has been the head coach of the Kings since the 2011–12 season.
==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 coaching career with the Kings
† 	Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder
==Coaches==
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2015–16 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 	Red Kelly 	1967–1969 	150 	55 	75 	20 	130 	.433 	18 	7 	11 	.389 	 	
2 	Hal Laycoe 	1969 	24 	5 	18 	1 	11 	.229 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
3 	Johnny Wilson 	1969–1970 	52 	9 	34 	9 	27 	.260 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
4 	Larry Regan* 	1970–1971 	88 	27 	47 	14 	68 	.386 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
5 	Fred Glover 	1971–1972 	68 	18 	42 	8 	44 	.324 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
6 	Bob Pulford* 	1972–1977 	396 	178 	150 	68 	424 	.535 	26 	11 	15 	.423 	1974–75 Jack Adams Award winner 	
7 	Ron Stewart 	1977–1978 	80 	31 	34 	15 	77 	.481 	2 	0 	2 	.000 	 	
8 	Bob Berry 	1978–1981 	240 	107 	94 	39 	253 	.527 	10 	2 	8 	.200 	 	
9 	Parker MacDonald	1981–1982 	42 	13 	24 	5 	31 	.369 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
10	Don Perry* 	1982–1984 	168 	52 	85 	31 	135 	.402 	10 	4 	6 	.400 	 	
11	Rogatien Vachon 	1984 	2 	1 	0 	1 	3 	.750 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
12	Roger Neilson† 	1984 	28 	8 	17 	3 	19 	.339 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
13	Pat Quinn 	1984–1987 	202 	75 	101 	26 	176 	.436 	3 	0 	3 	.000 	 	
14	Mike Murphy 	1987–1987 	65 	20 	37 	8 	48 	.369 	5 	1 	4 	.200 	 	
— 	Rogatien Vachon 	1987 	1 	0 	1 	0 	0 	.000 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
15	Robbie Ftorek 	1987–1989 	132 	65 	56 	11 	141 	.534 	16 	5 	11 	.313 	 	
16	Tom Webster 	1989–1992 	240 	115 	94 	31 	261 	.544 	28 	12 	16 	.429 	 	
17	Barry Melrose 	1992–1995 	209 	79 	101 	29 	187 	.447 	24 	13 	11 	.542 	1993 Western Conference championship 	
— 	Rogatien Vachon 	1995 	7 	3 	2 	2 	8 	.571 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
18	Larry Robinson 	1995–1999 	328 	122 	161 	45 	289 	.441 	4 	0 	4 	.000 	 	
19	Andy Murray 	1999–2006 	480 	215 	176 	89 	519 	.541 	24 	10 	14 	.417 	 	
20	John Torchetti 	2006 	12 	5 	7 	10 	0 	.417 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
21	Marc Crawford 	2006–2008 	164 	59 	84 	21 	139 	.424 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
22	Terry Murray 	2008–2011 	275 	139 	106 	30 	308 	.560 	12 	4 	8 	.333 	 	
23	John Stevens 	2011 	4 	2 	2 	0 	4 	.500 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
24	Darryl Sutter 	2011–present	343 	186 	112 	45 	417 	.608 	64 	42 	27 	.641 	2012, 2014 Stanley Cup2012, 2014 Western Conference championship	
==Notes==
* A running total of the number of coaches of the Kings. 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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Los Angeles Kings head coaches