List of Minnesota Wild head coaches

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The Wild have played their home games at the Xcel Energy Center since its first season.

The Minnesota Wild is an American professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It plays in the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). [1] The Wild joined the NHL in 2000 as an expansion team with the Columbus Blue Jackets. [2] The Wild have played their home games at the Xcel Energy Center since its first season. [3] The majority of the Wild is owned by Craig Leipold, and Bill Guerin is their general manager.

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There have been five  head coaches for the Wild franchise. Jacques Lemaire, who coached the team from its inception to the end of the 2008–09 season, [4] compiled a record of 574 regular-season games coached, 253 regular-season games won, 605 regular-season points, a .527 regular-season winning percentage, 29 playoff games coached, 11 playoff games won, and a .379 playoff winning percentage with the Wild. Lemaire was awarded the Jack Adams Award with the Wild in the 2002–03 season. Todd Richards was hired two months after Lemaire's resignation and fired in April 2011. [5] Mike Yeo was hired by the club in June 2011 and fired in February 2016. John Torchetti was named interim head coach. On May 7, Bruce Boudreau was signed to a four-year deal as the new head coach, just 8 days after being released by the Anaheim Ducks.

On February 14, 2020, Bruce Boudreau was released by the Minnesota Wild following a disappointing first half of the 2019–20 season. This included Boudreau making a paperwork error that left the Wild with five defensemen in a game on January 15. Dean Evason was named as interim head coach, previously being assistant coach. On July 13, 2020, Evason was hired as the full-time head coach, with a contract extension through the 2021–22 season. Evason was later fired on November 27, 2023, after a poor start to the 2023–24 season, [6] and John Hynes was named the new head coach. [7]

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
P% Points percentage
Win% Winning percentage
*Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Wild

Coaches

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

#NameTerm [c] Regular seasonPlayoffsAchievementsReference
GCWLT/OTPTSP%GCWLWin%
1 Jacques Lemaire 2000–2009 656293255108694.529291118.3792002–03 Jack Adams Award winner [8] [9]
2 Todd Richards 2009–2011 164777116170.518———— [10]
3 Mike Yeo 2011–2016 34917313244390.559281117.393 [11]
4 John Torchetti 2016 271511131.574624.333 [12]
5 Bruce Boudreau 2016–2020 30315811035351.5791028.200 [13]
6 Dean Evason 2020–2023 2511477727321.63923815.348 [14]
7 John Hynes 2023–present633424573————— [15]

Notes

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  1. ↑ "Teams". National Hockey League. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  2. ↑ Pincus, Arthur (2006). The Official Illustrated NHL History. Reader's Digest. ISBN   0-88850-800-X.
  3. ↑ "Arena Info". Xcel Energy Center. Archived from the original on 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
  4. ↑ "Lemaire calls it quits in Minnesota". National Hockey League. 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
  5. ↑ "Wild hire Todd Richards as head coach". Associated Press. 2009-06-15. Archived from the original on 2020-05-24. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
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  10. ↑ "Todd Richards Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
  11. ↑ "Mike Yeo Coaching Record". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2012-12-16.
  12. ↑ "Minnesota Wild Names John Torchetti Interim Head Coach". National Hockey League. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  13. ↑ "Wild Agrees To Terms With Bruce Boudreau". National Hockey League. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  14. ↑ "Evason signs two-year contract to remain Wild coach". NHL.com. 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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