List of Quebec Nordiques head coaches

The Quebec Nordiques were an ice hockey team who played in both the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA). This is a list of the head coaches they had during their existence. The franchise moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1995, and became the Colorado Avalanche.

Michel Bergeron coached the most games and won the most points all-time with the Nordiques, with 634 games and 616 points. Maurice Filion and Michel Bergeron were the only coaches to have three terms with the Nordiques. Marc Crawford was the only Nordiques coach to win the Jack Adams Award.

Key

#Number of coachesGCGames coachedWWinsLLossesTTiesPtsPoints* Spent entire NHL coaching career with the Nordiques

WHA coaches
 # Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards won Reference GC W L T Pts GC W L 1   Maurice Richard    1972–1973 2   Maurice Filion     1972–1973 3   Jacques Plante     1973–1974 4   Jean-Guy Gendron   1974–1976 5   Marc Boileau      1976–1978 –   Maurice Filion     1977–1978

NHL coaches
 # Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards won Reference GC W L T Pts GC W L1 Jacques Demers1979–1980 80 25 44 11 61 ———2 Michel Bergeron1980–1981 74 29 29 16 74  52 3 3 Maurice Filion*19816 1 3 2 4 ———– Michel Bergeron1981–1987 480224193 635116329 34 4Andre Savard* 198724 10 13 1 21 ———5Ron Lapointe* 1987–1989 89 33 50 6 72 ———6Jean Perron1989 47 16 26 5 37 ———– Michel Bergeron1989–1990  80 12 61 7 31 ——— 7Dave Chambers* 1990–199198 19 64 15 53 ———8Pierre Page 1991–1994230 98 103 30  2256 2 4 9 Marc Crawford 1994–1995 48 30 13 5 65 ———1995 Jack Adams Award winner

Notes
 A running total of the number of coaches of the Nordiques. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
Maurice Filion's six games coached with the Nordiques were in the middle of the season, not in the end of the season.

Related pages
List of NHL head coaches
Head Coaches of the Colorado Avalanche

References

Category:National Hockey League lists
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