List of New York Rangers head coaches

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Glen Sather coached the Rangers for 90 games between 2003 and 2004. Glen Sather, 2006 NHL Awards.jpg
Glen Sather coached the Rangers for 90 games between 2003 and 2004.

The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in Manhattan, New York. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the oldest teams in the NHL, having joined in 1926 as an expansion franchise, and are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six. The Rangers were the first NHL franchise in the United States to win the Stanley Cup, [1] which they have done four times (most recently in 1994). [2] The team is commonly referred to by its famous nickname, "The Broadway Blueshirts", or more commonly in New York media, as simply the "Blueshirts". [3]

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There have been thirty-five head coaches for the Rangers, the first one being Lester Patrick, and the most recent being David Quinn. [4] [5] Muzz Patrick, Alfred Pike, Ron Smith, and Colin Campbell are the only coaches who spent their entire careers with the Rangers and were not elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. [6] [7] [8] [9] Bernie Geoffrion, Lynn Patrick, Emile Francis, Glen Sather, Craig Patrick, Roger Neilson, Herb Brooks, and Fred Shero have all been inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] Lester Patrick, Frank Boucher, Neil Colville, Bill Cook, Phil Esposito, Doug Harvey, and Bryan Trottier have all coached the Rangers for their entire coaching careers and have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. [4] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] Emile Francis has coached the most regular season games, 654, and the most playoff games, 75, in franchise history. Emile Francis also holds the franchise records in regular season wins, 342, and playoff wins, 34. Mike Keenan, the twenty-fifth head coach of the Rangers, amassed the best points percentage, .667, and regular season winning percentage, .619, having done so in a single, 84-game season. Keenan is also the only head coach to have coached the Rangers to a Presidents' Trophy and Stanley Cup in the same season. [24] Lester Patrick is the only head coach to have coached the Rangers to multiple Stanley Cups. Under head coach Alain Vigneault the Rangers set franchise records in wins (53) and points (113) in a single season, having set both records in the 2014–15 season. [25] The Jack Adams Award has never been awarded to the head coach of the New York Rangers.

Key

#Number of coaches [A]
GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
TTies (applicable until the 2003–04 NHL season)
OTLOvertime/shootout losses (shootouts applicable since the 2005–06 NHL season)
P% Points percentage
W% Winning percentage
*Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
†Spent entire professional head coaching career with the Rangers.
*†Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame and spent entire professional head coaching career with the Rangers.

Coaches

Lester Patrick, the first coach of the Rangers, coached the team his entire career and was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Lpatrick.jpg
Lester Patrick, the first coach of the Rangers, coached the team his entire career and was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2022–23 season.

#NameTermRegular seasonPlayoffsAchievementsNote
GCWLTOTLP%W%GCWLT
1 Lester Patrick*† 1926–1939 604281216107—.554.4656531268 Stanley Cup champions (1928, 1933) [4]
2 Frank Boucher*† 1939–1948 48716724377—.422.3432713140Stanley Cup champions (1940) [18]
3 Lynn Patrick* 1948–1950 107405116—.449.37412750  [11]
4 Neil Colville*† 1950–1951 93264126—.419.280————  [19]
5 Bill Cook*† 1951–1953 117345924—.393.291————  [20]
—Frank Boucher*† 1953–1954 4014206—.425.350————  [18]
6 Muzz Patrick † 1954–1955 100324622—.430.320————  [6]
7 Phil Watson 1955–1959 29511912452—.492.40316412—  [26]
—Muzz Patrick† 1959 2011—.250.000————  [6]
8 Alfred Pike † 1959–1961 123366621—.378.293————  [7]
9 Doug Harvey*† 1961–1962 70263212—.457.371624—  [22]
—Muzz Patrick† 1962 3411194—.382.324————  [6]
10 Red Sullivan 1962–1965 1965810335—.385.296————  [27]
11 Emile Francis* 1965–1968 194828230—.500.4231028—  [12]
12 Bernie Geoffrion* 1968–1969 4322183—.547.512————  [10]
—Emile Francis* 1969–1973 3432018854—.665.586492425—  [12]
13 Larry Popein † 1973–1974 4118149—.549.439————  [28]
—Emile Francis* 1974–1975 117593919—.585.5041688—  [12]
14 Ron Stewart 1975–1976 3915204—.436.385————  [29]
15 John Ferguson, Sr. 1976–1977 121435919—.434.355————  [30]
16 Jean-Guy Talbot 1977–1978 80303713—.456.375312—  [31]
17 Fred Shero* 1978–1980 180827424—.522.456271512—  [17]
18 Craig Patrick* 1980–1981 60262311—.525.4331477—  [14]
19 Herb Brooks* 1981–1985 28513111341—.532.460241212—  [16]
—Craig Patrick* 1985 3511222—.343.314303—  [14]
20 Ted Sator 1985–1986 99414810—.465.4141688—  [32]
21 Tom Webster 1986–1987 16574—.438.313————  [33]
22 Phil Esposito*† 1987 4324190—.558.558624—  [21]
23 Michel Bergeron 1987–1989 158736718—.519.462————  [34]
—Phil Esposito*† 1989 2020—.000.000404—  [21]
24 Roger Neilson* 1989–1993 28014110435—.566.504291316— Presidents' Trophy (1992) [15]
25 Ron Smith † 1993 4415227—.420.341————  [8]
26 Mike Keenan 1993–1994 8452248—.667.61923167—Presidents' Trophy (1994)
Stanley Cup champions (1994)		 [24]
27 Colin Campbell † 1994–1998 26911810843—.519.439361818—  [9]
28 John Muckler 1998–2000 1857088243.451.378————  [35]
29 John Tortorella 2000 4031—.125.000————  [36]
30 Ron Low 2000–2002 164698195.463.421————  [37]
31 Bryan Trottier*† 2002–2003 54212661.454.389————  [23]
32 Glen Sather* 2003–2004 903339117.572.367————  [13]
33 Tom Renney 2004–2009 327164117—46.572.502241113—  [38]
— John Tortorella 2009–2013 315171115—29.589.543441925—  [36]
34 Alain Vigneault 2013–2018 410226147—37.596.551613130—Presidents' Trophy (2015) [25]
35 David Quinn 2018–2021 2089687—25.522.462303—  [39]
36 Gerard Gallant 2021–2023 1649946—19.652.604271314—  [40]
37 Peter Laviolette 2023–present——————————— 

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