List Of Minnesota Wild Head Coaches
The Minnesota Wild is an American professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It plays in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Wild joined the NHL in 2000 as an expansion team with the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Wild have played their home games at the Xcel Energy Center since its first season. The majority of the Wild is owned by Craig Leipold, and Chuck Fletcher is their general manager.
There have been three head coaches for the Wild franchise. Jacques Lemaire, who coached the team from its inception to the end of the 2008–09 season, complied 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. Mike Yeo was hired by the club in June 2011.
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