List of Colorado Avalanche head coaches

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The Avalanche have played their home games at Ball Arena since 1999.

The Colorado Avalanche are an American professional ice hockey team based in Denver. They play in the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL).[1] The team joined the NHL in 1972 as a charter member of the World Hockey Association, and were named the Quebec Nordiques, but moved to Denver in 1995. The Avalanche won their first Stanley Cup championship in 1996, and won another one in 2001.[2] Having first played at the McNichols Sports Arena, the Avalanche have played their home games at Ball Arena (formerly the Pepsi Center) since 1999.[3] The Avalanche are owned by Ann Walton Kroenke, their general manager is Chris MacFarland, Joe Sakic was named President of Hockey Operations in 2022. Gabriel Landeskog is the team captain.[4][5]

There have been seven head coaches for the Avalanche team. The team's first head coach was Marc Crawford, who coached for three seasons. None of the Avalanche head coaches have been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder.[6] Tony Granato, who coached two terms with the Avalanche, has spent his entire NHL head coaching career with the Avalanche. Granato was fired after the 2008–09 season.[7]

On June 4, 2009, the Avalanche hired Joe Sacco, the coach of their AHL affiliate The Lake Erie Monsters, as the new head coach to succeed Granato.[8] Following the 2012–13 season, his fourth year at the helm, finishing last in the Western Conference and out of the playoffs for a third consecutive year, Sacco was relieved of his duties on April 28, 2013.[9]

A month later, former Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy was introduced as the team's latest head coach on May 28, 2013.[10] On August 11, 2016, Roy announced that he had resigned as head coach of the Avalanche.[11]

On August 25, 2016, Jared Bednar was announced as the seventh head coach in Avalanche history.[12]

Crawford, Hartley and Bednar are the only head coaches to have won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche, in the 1996 Stanley Cup Finals, the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals and the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals respectively.

Key

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Coaches

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Marc Crawford was the Avalanche team's first head coach.

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2024–25 season.

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GC W L T/OT PTS Win% GC W L Win%
1 Marc Crawford Template:NHL Year–Template:NHL Year 246 135 75 26 306 .622 46 29 17 .630 Stanley Cup championship (1996)[2] [13]
2 Bob Hartley Template:NHL Year–Template:NHL Year 359 193 108 58 444 .618 80 49 31 .613 Stanley Cup championship (2001)[2] [14]
3 Tony Granato* Template:NHL Year–Template:NHL Year 133 72 33 28 172 .647 18 9 9 .500 [15]
4 Joel Quenneville Template:NHL Year–Template:NHL Year 246 131 92 23 285 .579 19 8 11 .421 [16]
— Tony Granato* Template:NHL Year 82 32 45 5 69 .421 — — — — [15]
5 Joe Sacco Template:NHL Year–Template:NHL Year 294 130 134 30 290 .493 6 2 4 .333 [17]
6 Patrick Roy Template:NHL Year–Template:NHL Year 246 130 92 24 284 .577 7 3 4 .429 Jack Adams Award winner (2014) [18]
7 Jared Bednar* Template:NHL Year–present 700 390 246 64 844 .603 81 49 32 .605 Stanley Cup championship (2022)[19] [20]

See also

Notes

  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>a A running total of the number of coaches of the Avalanche. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>b Before the 2005–06 season, the NHL instituted a penalty shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period, which prevented ties.[21]
  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>c Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.

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