List of Colorado Avalanche head coaches

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The Avalanche have played their home games at Ball Arena since 1999. Pepsi Center inside.jpg
The Avalanche have played their home games at Ball Arena since 1999.

The Colorado Avalanche are an American professional ice hockey team based in Denver. They play in the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). [1] The team joined the NHL in 1972 as a charter member of the World Hockey Association, and were named the Quebec Nordiques, but moved to Denver in 1995. The Avalanche won their first Stanley Cup championship in 1996, and won another one in 2001. [2] Having first played at the McNichols Sports Arena, the Avalanche have played their home games at Ball Arena (formerly the Pepsi Center) since 1999. [3] The Avalanche are owned by Ann Walton Kroenke, their general manager is Chris MacFarland, Joe Sakic was named President of Hockey Operations in 2022. Gabriel Landeskog is the team captain. [4] [5]

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There have been seven  head coaches for the Avalanche team. The team's first head coach was Marc Crawford, who coached for three seasons. None of the Avalanche head coaches have been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. [6] Tony Granato, who coached two terms with the Avalanche, has spent his entire NHL head coaching career with the Avalanche. Granato was fired after the 2008–09 season. [7]

On June 4, 2009, the Avalanche hired Joe Sacco, the coach of their AHL affiliate The Lake Erie Monsters, as the new head coach to succeed Granato. [8] Following the 2012–13 season, his fourth year at the helm, finishing last in the Western Conference and out of the playoffs for a third consecutive year, Sacco was relieved of his duties on April 28, 2013. [9]

A month later, former Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy was introduced as the team's latest head coach on May 28, 2013. [10] On August 11, 2016, Roy announced that he had resigned as head coach of the Avalanche. [11]

On August 25, 2016, Jared Bednar was announced as the seventh head coach in Avalanche history. [12]

Crawford, Hartley and Bednar are the only head coaches to have won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche, in the 1996 Stanley Cup Finals, the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals and the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals respectively.

Key

#Number of coaches [a]
GCGames coached
WWins = 2 points
LLosses = 0 points
TTies = 1 point
OT Overtime/shootout losses = 1 point [b]
PTS Points
Win% Winning percentage
*Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Avalanche

Coaches

Marc Crawford was the Avalanche team's first head coach. Marccrawford 2006nhlawards.jpg
Marc Crawford was the Avalanche team's first head coach.

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2023–24 season.

#NameTerm [c] Regular seasonPlayoffsAchievementsReference
GCWLT/OTPTSWin%GCWLWin%
1 Marc Crawford 1995–1998 2461357526306.622462917.630 Stanley Cup championship (1996) [2] [13]
2 Bob Hartley 1998–2002 35919310858444.618804931.613Stanley Cup championship (2001) [2] [14]
3 Tony Granato* 2002–2004 133723328172.6471899.500 [15]
4 Joel Quenneville 2005–2008 2461319223285.57919811.421 [16]
—Tony Granato* 2008–2009 823245569.421———— [15]
5 Joe Sacco* 2009–2013 29413013430290.493624.333 [17]
6 Patrick Roy 2013–2016 2461309224284.577734.429 Jack Adams Award winner (2014) [18]
7 Jared Bednar* 2016–present61834121760742.600814932.605Stanley Cup championship (2022) [19] [20]

See also

Notes

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