List of Detroit Red Wings head coaches

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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and are one of the Original Six teams of the league. [1] [2] There have been 28 head coaches in franchise history; three during the era of the Detroit Cougars (1926–1930) and Detroit Falcons (1930–1932) and the rest under the Detroit Red Wings (1932–present). Six Red Wings coaches have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players: Jack Adams, Sid Abel, Bill Gadsby, Marcel Pronovost, Ted Lindsay, and Brad Park, while two others as builders: Tommy Ivan and Scotty Bowman. Adams, Bowman, Ivan, and Lindsay have also won the Lester Patrick Trophy, an award presented to those who have provided an outstanding service to hockey in the United States.

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Barry Smith has the highest winning percentage of any Red Wings coach, with an .800 record from the five games he coached on an interim basis with Dave Lewis during the 1998 season. [3] [4] He is followed by Lewis who has a .672 winning percentage. [3] Larry Wilson, who coached the 1977 season, has the lowest winning percentage (.139). Jack Adams coached the most games of any Red Wings head coach, 964 games during his tenure with the Cougars, Falcons and Red Wings. Adams also has the most regular season losses and ties. [5] [6] The Jack Adams Award, awarded annually to the National Hockey League head coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success", is named after him. Mike Babcock has the most regular season wins. [6] Jacques Demers is the only NHL coach to have won the Jack Adams Award twice with the same team. Scotty Bowman also won twice, though with different teams: the first time, he was coach of the Montreal Canadiens. [7] The current head coach of the Red Wings is Todd McLellan, who was hired in December 2024. [8]

Key

Key of terms and definitions
TermDefinition
No.Number of coaches [a]
GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
TTies
OT Overtime/shootout losses [b]
Win% Winning percentage
#Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Red Wings
†Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame
‡Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Red Wings
and also elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame

Coaches

Jack Adams, shown here as a player in the OHA, coached the team from 1927 to 1947. Jack Adams, Toronto Arenas.jpg
Jack Adams, shown here as a player in the OHA, coached the team from 1927 to 1947.
Scotty Bowman, the 23rd head coach of the Red Wings, coached the team from 1993 to 2002. Scottybowman-2006awards.jpg
Scotty Bowman, the 23rd head coach of the Red Wings, coached the team from 1993 to 2002.

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

Head coaches of the Detroit NHL franchise
No.NameTerm(s) [c] GCWLT/OTWin%GCWLTWin%AwardsRef(s)
Regular seasonPlayoffs
1 Art Duncan 1926–273310212.333————— [6] [9]
2 Duke Keats ‡1926–2711272.273————— [6] [10]
3 Jack Adams ‡1927–47964413390161.51210552521.500 Stanley Cup (1936, 1937, 1943)
First All-Star team Coach (1937, 1943)
second All-Star team Coach (1945)		 [5] [6] [11] [12]
4 Tommy Ivan †1947–5447026211890.6536736310.537 Stanley Cup (1950, 1952, 1954) [6] [11] [12] [13]
5 Jimmy Skinner #1954–582471237846.5912614120.538 Stanley Cup (1955) [6] [11] [12] [14]
6 Sid Abel †1958–68
1969–70		811340339132.5017632440.421 [6] [11] [15]
7 Bill Gadsby ‡1968–6978353112.526————— [6] [16]
8 Ned Harkness #1970–713812224.368————— [6] [17]
9 Doug Barkley #1970–71
1975–76		77204611.331————— [6] [18]
10 Johnny Wilson 1971–73145675622.538————— [6] [19]
11 Ted Garvin #1973–7411281.227————— [6] [20]
12 Alex Delvecchio ‡1973–75
1975–77		2458213132.400————— [6] [21]
13 Larry Wilson #1976–77363294.139————— [6] [22]
14 Bobby Kromm #1977–802317911141.4317340.428 Jack Adams Award (1978) [6] [11] [23]
15 Ted Lindsay ‡1979–81295213.224————— [6] [24]
16 Wayne Maxner #1980–82129346827.368————— [6] [25]
17 Billy Dea #1981–8211380.273————— [6] [26]
18 Nick Polano #1982–852407912734.4007160.143 [6] [11] [27]
19 Harry Neale 1985–86358234.286————— [6] [28]
20 Brad Park ‡1985–86459342.222————— [6] [29]
21 Jacques Demers 1986–9032013713647.5023820180.526 Jack Adams Award (1987, 1988) [6] [11] [30]
22 Bryan Murray 1990–932441249129.5682510150.400 [6] [11] [31]
23 Scotty Bowman †1993–200270141019398.65513486480.642 Stanley Cup (1997, 1998, 2002)
Jack Adams Award (1996)		 [6] [11] [12] [32]
24 Barry Smith #1998–995410.800————— [4] [6] [11]
25 Dave Lewis 1998–99
2002–05		1691004227.672166100.375 [3] [6] [11]
26 Mike Babcock 2005–2015786458223105.64912367560.545 Stanley Cup (2008) [6] [11] [12] [33]
27 Jeff Blashill #2015–202253720426172.4475140.200 [34] [35]
28 Derek Lalonde #2022–2024198898623.508———–– [36] [37]
29 Todd McLellan 2024–present [38] [39]

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