List Of St. Louis Blues Head Coaches
The St. Louis Blues are an American professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They play in the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team joined the NHL in 1967 as an expansion team with five other teams. The Blues first played their home games at the St. Louis Arena until 1994; they have played their home games at the Scottrade Center, first named the Kiel Center, since then. The majority of the Blues franchise are owned by Dave Checketts, Doug Armstrong is their general manager, and David Backes is the team captain.
There have been 23 head coaches for the Blues. The franchise's first head coach was Lynn Patrick, who coached for 16 games in his first term. Joel Quenneville is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (593), the most regular-season game wins (307), the most regular-season points (709), the most playoff games coached (68), and the most playoff-game wins (34). Barclay Plager and Bob Plager are the only pair of brothers to have coached the Blues; Barclay coached for four seasons, and Bob coached for eleven games. Red Berenson, Brian Sutter, and Quenneville are the only head coaches to have been awarded the Jack Adams Award with the Blues. Scotty Bowman, Al Arbour, and Emile Francis are the only Blues head coaches to have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. Five coaches have spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Blues. Andy Murray was the head coach of the Blues from the 2006–07 season until Jan. 2, 2010 after 40 games (17-17-6) in the 2009-10 season until relieved in favor of Davis Payne. Payne was announced as the 23rd head coach on Apr. 14, 2010. Payne was relieved of duties on Nov. 6, 2011, and replaced by Ken Hitchcock who is the 24th head coach in Blues' history.
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