List of Edmonton Oilers head coaches

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Glen Sather coached the Oilers for 842 regular games and 126 playoff games in the NHL.

The Edmonton Oilers are a Canadian professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Oilers were established in 1972 as part of the World Hockey Association (WHA) and joined the NHL as one of four franchises during the 1979 NHL expansion.[1] There have been 23 head coaches in their franchise history; seven during their time in the WHA (1972–1979)[2] and seventeen during their time in the NHL (1979–present).[3]

The Oilers had seven different head coaches during the seven seasons that they played in the WHA. Ray Kinasewich was the first head coach for over 30 games of the original Alberta Oilers, with Hall of Famer (and Top 100 Players of All Time) Glenn Hall as the teams first Assistant Coach.[4] Bill Hunter, who was the team's owner and general manager at the time served three terms.[5] Glen Sather became a player-coach during the 1976–77 season, but retired as a player at the end of the year. Sather then coached the team for two more seasons in the WHA, and maintained the position when the Oilers were admitted as an expansion franchise into the NHL.

Since joining the NHL for the 1979–80 season, the Oilers have had twelve different head coaches. Sather has the most games coached and most wins as head coach.[6] Sather stepped down before the 1980–81 season, but after the Oilers started the season with only four wins in their first eighteen games he returned to the bench. Sather remained head coach for the remainder of that season plus eight more seasons, during which time the team won four Stanley Cups, in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988. For the 1985–86 NHL season, Sather won the Jack Adams Award for the NHL coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success".[7] Sather stepped down as coach a second time after the 1988–89 season, and John Muckler coached the 1990 championship team. Sather would have one more stint as head coach, relieving Ted Green after the team posted just three victories in the first 24 games of the 1993–94 season. Sather was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997 in the builder category.

Former[8] Oilers head coach, Craig MacTavish, played for the team from 1985 to 1994. He was a member of the 1987, 1988, and 1990 Stanley Cup winning teams, and he was team captain from 1992 to 1994. As of the 2023–24 season, he ranks second in the number of Oilers games coached.

The current head coach is Kris Knoblauch.[9]

Key

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GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
OT Overtime Loss

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Win–loss percentage = W+12TGC and Points percentage = W+12T+12OTGC
  • For the 1999–2000 to 2003–04 seasons, an extra point was awarded for overtime losses. These totals are included as losses for the purpose of calculating win–loss percentage.
  • Since the 2005–06 NHL season, ties are no longer recorded, but single points for overtime or shootout losses are still awarded. These totals are included as ties for the purpose of calculating win–loss percentage.

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Coaches

WHA

No. Name Seasons Regular Season Playoffs
GC W L T Win % GC W L Win %
1 Ray Kinasewich 1972–73 45 20 23 2 0.467 – – – –
2 Bill Hunter 1972–73 26 14 11 1 0.558 1 0 1 0.000
3 Brian Shaw 1973–74 to 1974–75 137 68 63 6 0.518 5 1 4 0.200
– Bill Hunter 1974–75 19 6 12 1 0.342 – – – –
4 Clare Drake 1975–76 48 18 28 2 0.396 – – – –
– Bill Hunter 1975–76 33 9 21 3 0.318 4 0 4 0.000
5 Bep Guidolin 1976–77 63 25 36 2 0.413 – – – –
6 Glen Sather 1976–77 to 1978–79 178 95 76 7 0.553 23 8 15 0.348

NHL

No. Name Seasons Regular Season Playoffs
GC W L T OT Pts % GC W L Win %
1 Glen Sather[10][11] 1979–80 80 28 39 13 – 0.431 3 0 3 0.000
2 Bryan Watson[12][13] 1980–81Template:Ref label 18 4 9 5 – 0.361 – – – –
– Glen Sather 1980–81 to 1988–89 702 414 202 86 – 0.651 123 89 34 0.724
3 John Muckler[14][15] 1989–90 to 1990–91 160 75 65 20 – 0.531 40 25 15 0.625
4 Ted Green[16][17] 1991–92 to 1993–94Template:Ref label 188 65 102 21 – 0.402 16 8 8 0.500
– Glen Sather 1993–94 60 22 27 11 – 0.458 – – – –
5 George Burnett[18][19] 1994–95Template:Ref label 35 12 20 3 – 0.386 – – – –
6 Ron Low[20][21] 1994–95 to 1998–99 341 139 162 40 – 0.466 28 10 18 0.357
7 Kevin Lowe[22][23] 1999–2000 82 32 26 16 8 0.537Template:Ref label 5 1 4 0.200
8 Craig MacTavish[24][25] 2000–01 to 2008–09 656 301 252 47 56 0.537Template:Ref label 36 19 17 0.528
9 Pat Quinn[26][27] 2009–10 82 27 47 – 8 0.378 – – – –
10 Tom Renney[28][29] 2010–11 to 2011–12 164 57 85 – 22 0.415 – – – –
11 Ralph Krueger[30][31] 2012–13 48 19 22 – 7 0.469 – – – –
12 Dallas Eakins[32][33] 2013–14 to 2014–15Template:Ref label 113 36 63 – 14 0.381 – – – –
13 Todd Nelson[34][35] 2014–15 51 17 25 – 9 0.422 – – – –
14 Todd McLellan[36][37] 2015–16 to 2018–19Template:Ref label 266 123 119 – 24 0.502 13 7 6 0.538
15 Ken Hitchcock[38] 2018–19 62 26 28 – 8 0.484 – – – –
16 Dave Tippett[39][40] 2019–20 to 2021–22Template:Ref label 171 95 62 – 14 0.596 8 1 7 0.125
17 Jay Woodcroft[40] 2021–22 to 2023–24Template:Ref label 133 79 41 – 13 0.643 28 14 14 0.500
18 Kris Knoblauch[9] 2023–24 to present 69 46 18 5 0 0.703 25 15 10 0.600

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