List of Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches

Michel Therrien is the current coach of the Penguins, and started coaching the team in 2005.

This is a list of Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches. There have been 19 head coaches of the Penguins franchise since its founding in 1967. Ken Schinkel, Craig Patrick and Eddie Johnston have each served two tenures as head coach. Two different coaches have lead the team to Stanley Cup victories: Bob Johnson, in 1991, and Scotty Bowman, in 1992. Eddie Johnston is the all time leader in games coached and wins, and Bowman leads all coaches in winning percentage. The Penguins' current coach is Michel Therrien, who was promoted from coach of the Penguins AHL affiliate part way through the 2005 season.

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#	Number of coaches^[1]
GC	Games Coached
W	Wins
L	Loses
T	Ties
W – L %	Win – Loss percentage
*	Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame

(category leader's statistics are in bold)

Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman coached the Penguins from 1991 to 1993.

#	Name	Term	Games	Record (W-L-T)	W – L %	Achievements
1	Red Sullivan	6 June 1967 - 31 March 1969	150	47–79–24	.393
2	Red Kelly*	2 July 1969 - 13 January 1973	274	90–132–52	.423
3	Ken Schinkel	13 January 1973 - 6 February 1974	86	29–49–8	.384
4	Marc Boileau	6 February 1974 - 17 January 1976	151	66–61–24	.517
—	Ken Schinkel	17 January 1976 - 19 May 1977	117	54–43–20	.547
5	Johnny Wilson	13 June 1977 - 8 May 1980	240	91–105–44	.471
6	Eddie Johnston	15 July 1980 - 20 July 1983	240	79–126–45	.402
7	Lou Angotti	20 July 1983 - 4 June 1984	80	16–58–6	.283
8	Bob Berry	4 June 1984 - 13 April 1987	240	88–127–25	.419
9	Pierre Creamer	4 June 1987 - 14 June 1988	80	36–35–9	.506
10	Gene Ubriaco	28 June 1988 - 5 December 1989	106	50–47–9	.514
11	Craig Patrick*	5 December 1989 - 12 June 1990	54	22–26–6	.462
12	Bob Johnson*	12 June 1990 - 1 October 1991	80	41–33–6	.550	Stanley Cup - 1991
13	Scotty Bowman*	1 October 1991 - 28 May 1993	164	95–53–16	.628	Stanley Cup - 1992
—	Eddie Johnston	22 June 1993 - 3 March 1997	276	153–98–25	.599
—	Craig Patrick*	3 March 1997 - 26 April 1997	20	7–10–3	.425
14	Kevin Constantine	14 June 1997 - 9 December 1999	189	86–67–35–4	.511
15	Herb Brooks*	9 December 1999 - 9 May 2000	57	29–24–5–2	.570
16	Ivan Hlinka	21 June 2000 - 14 October 2001	86	42–32–9–3	.558
17	Rick Kehoe	14 October 2001 - 15 April 2003	160	55–81–14–0	.419
18	Ed Olczyk	11 June 2003 - 15 December 2005	113	31–64–14–4	.274
19	Michel Therrien	15 December 2005 - present	129	59–52–18	.527

^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Penguins. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.

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