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List of Vancouver Canucks head coaches 

Marc Crawford was the head coach of the Canucks from 1999 to 2006.
Marc Crawford was the head coach of the Canucks from 1999 to 2006.

The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canucks are a members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).[1] The Canucks currently play home games at General Motors Place. The Canucks joined the NHL in 1970 as an expansion team, along with the Buffalo Sabres.[2] They have advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals twice but were defeated by the New York Islanders in 1982, and the New York Rangers in 1994.[3]

There have been 16 head coaches in the Canucks franchise history. Roger Neilson is the only Hockey Hall of Fame inductee to coach the Canucks. Marc Crawford coached the most games of any Canucks head coach with 529 games and has the most points all-time with the Canucks with 586 points.[4] He is followed by Pat Quinn, who has 310 points all-time with the Canucks. Alain Vigneault has the most points in a season of any Canucks coach, with 105 in the 2006–07 season.[5] Quinn and Vigneault are the only two Canucks head coaches to win a Jack Adams Award with the team. Bill LaForge, who coached the start of the 1984 season, has the least points with the Canucks (10). Harry Neale served the most terms as head coach of the Canucks with three while Pat Quinn served two. After Rick Ley was fired, General Manager Pat Quinn coached the final 6 games of the season and but lost in the first round of the playoffs. In June 1996 Tom Renney, who had been coaching the Canada national men's ice hockey team, was hired but missed the playoffs in his first season. In the following season, despite a poor start and a club record 10-game losing streak, Quinn endorsed Renney as head coach.[6] Shortly after vice-President Steve Tambellini fired both Quinn and Renney, and hired Mike Keenan.[7] The Canucks still came in last place in the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, resulting in Keenan being replaced by Marc Crawford in January 1999 during the All-Star break. Crawford was still under contract with the Colorado Avalanche for whom he had quit following a first round playoff loss the previous season, so the Canucks compensated the Avalanche with a second round draft pick and cash.[8] Unlike Renney, Keenan voiced his displeasure at being fired.[9][10] Crawford's coaching style relied upon the professionalism of players and rarely criticized individual players in public.[11] After coaching the Canucks for six and a half seasons, Crawford was fired after failing to make the playoffs as the team changed its focus to a more defensive strategy.[12] When Alain Vigneault, the coach of the Canuck’s farm team, the Manitoba Moose, took over he replaced the assistant coaches. He won the Jack Adams Award in his first season as Canucks came in first in the Northwest division. Alain Vigneault is currently the head coach of the Canucks.[5]

Contents

Key

# Number of coaches[a]
GC Games coached
W Wins = 2 points
L Losses = 0 points
T Ties = 1 point
OL Overtime/shootout losses = 1 point [b]
PTS Points
* Spent entire NHL coaching career with the Canucks

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2007–08 season.

# Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T/OL PTS GC W L
1 Hal Laycoe 1970–72 156 44 96 16 104 — — — [13]
2 Vic Stasiuk 1972–73 78 22 47 9 53 — — — [14]
3 Bill McCreary 1973–74 41 9 25 7 25 — — — [15]
4 Phil Maloney* 1974–77 232 95 105 32 222 7 1 6 [16]
5 Orland Kurtenbach* 1977–78 125 36 62 27 99 — — — [17]
6 Harry Neale 1978–82 315 106 144 65 177 10 2 8 [18]
7 Roger Neilson 1982–84 133 51 61 21 123 21 12 9 [19]
— Harry Neale 1984 32 15 13 4 34 4 1 3 [20]
8 Bill LaForge* 1984 20 4 14 2 10 — — — [21]
— Harry Neale 1984–85 60 21 32 7 49 — — — [22]
9 Tom Watt 1985–87 160 52 87 21 125 3 0 3 [23]
10 Bob McCammon 1987–91 294 102 156 36 240 7 3 4 [24]
11 Pat Quinn 1991–94 274 138 108 28 304 55 29 26 1992 Jack Adams Award Winner [25]
12 Rick Ley 1994–96 124 47 50 27 121 11 4 7 [26]
— Pat Quinn 1996 6 3 3 — 6 6 2 4 [25]
13 Tom Renney 1996–97 101 39 53 9 87 — — — [27]
14 Mike Keenan 1997–99 108 36 54 18 90 — — — [28]
15 Marc Crawford 1999–06 529 246 189 94 586 27 12 15 [4]
16 Alain Vigneault 2006–present 164 88 59 17 193 12 5 7 2007 Jack Adams Award Winner [5]

Notes

  • a  A running total of the number of coaches of the Canucks. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • b  Starting in the 2005–06 season, if a game is still tied at the end of a five-minute overtime, the game enters a shootout. The team with the most goals during the three-round shootout wins the game.[29]

References

General
Specific
  1. ^ "Standings". NHL.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-22.
  2. ^ "NHL Expansion & Relocation Since 1967". AndrewsStarsPage.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-22.
  3. ^ "Stanley Cup Champions and Finalists". NHL.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-24.
  4. ^ a b "Marc Crawford Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  5. ^ a b c "Alain Vigneault Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  6. ^ Pap, Elliott (03 November 1997). "Quinn refuses to sacrifice Renney", Vancouver Sun, p. C1. 
  7. ^ MacIntyre, Iain (06 November 1997). "Canucks carry on without Quinn", Vancouver Sun, p. E1. 
  8. ^ Brehm, Mike (25 January 1999). "Canucks replace Keenan with Crawford", USA Today, p. C11. 
  9. ^ MacIntyre, Iain (14 November 1997). "Renney refuses to place blame on others for his fall from grace", Vancouver Sun, p. C3. 
  10. ^ Pap, Elliott (16 March 1999). "Burke tells Keenan to clam up", Vancouver Sun, p. C1. 
  11. ^ MacIntyre, Iain (20 June 2006). "'Bam-Bam' Vigneault to coach Canucks: Team's new bench boss will demand accountability", Vancouver Sun, p. E1. 
  12. ^ Cazeneuve, Brian (02 October 2006). "Northwest", Sports Illustrated. 
  13. ^ "Hal Laycoe Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  14. ^ "Vic Stasiuk Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  15. ^ "Bill McCreary Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  16. ^ "Phil Maloney Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  17. ^ "Orland Kurtenbach Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  18. ^ "Harry Neale Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  19. ^ "Roger Neilson Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  20. ^ "Harry Neale Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  21. ^ "Bill LaForge Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  22. ^ "Harry Neale Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  23. ^ "Tom Watt Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  24. ^ "Bob McCammon Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  25. ^ a b "Pat Quinn Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  26. ^ "Rick Ley Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  27. ^ "Tom Renney Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  28. ^ "Mike Keenan Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
  29. ^ "How the NHL Shootout Works". About.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-04.
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Vancouver Canucks Head Coaches
Laycoe • Stasiuk • McCreary • Maloney • Kurtenbach • Neale • Neilson • Neale • LaForge • Neale • Watt • McCammon • Quinn • Ley • Quinn • Renney • Keenan • Crawford • Vigneault
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Laycoe • Stasiuk • McCreary • Maloney • Kurtenbach • Neale • Neilson • Neale • LaForge • Neale • Watt • McCammon • Quinn • Ley • Quinn • Renney • Keenan • Crawford • Vigneault
General Managers
Poile • Laycoe • Maloney • Milford • Neale • Gordon • Quinn • Burke • Nonis • Gillis
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11 (unofficial) • 12 • 16 (to be retired December 17, 2008) • 99 (league wide)
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