List of Dallas Stars head coaches

The Stars has played their home games at the American Airlines Center since 2001.

For the head coaches before 1993, see List of Minnesota North Stars head coaches.

The Dallas Stars are an American professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team joined the NHL in 1967 as an expansion team as the Minnesota North Stars, but moved to Dallas in 1993. The Stars won their first Stanley Cup championship in 1999. Having first played at the Reunion Arena, the Stars have played their home games at the American Airlines Center since 2001. The Stars are owned by Tom Hicks, Brett Hull and Les Jackson are their general managers, and Brenden Morrow is the team captain.

There have been five head coaches for the Stars team. The team's first head coach was Bob Gainey, who has coached for four seasons. In the middle of the 1995–96 season, Gainey, who was then also the general manager for the Stars, fired himself as head coach and hired Ken Hitchcock to take over. Hitchcock is the team's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (503), the most regular-season game wins (277), the most regular-season points (626), the most playoff games coached (80), and the most playoff-game wins (47). Hitchcock is the only Stars coach to have won the Presidents' Trophy, winning it in 1997–98 and 1998–99, the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, winning it in 1998–99 and 1999–2000, and the Stanley Cup, winning it in the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals against the Buffalo Sabres. None of the Stars coaches have been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. Rick Wilson and Dave Tippett have each spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Stars. The current head coach of the Stars is Marc Crawford, who was hired after Tippett's firing.

Key

#	Number of coaches[a]
GC	Games coached
W	Wins = 2 points
L	Losses = 0 points
T	Ties = 1 point
OT	Overtime/shootout losses = 1 point[b]
PTS	Points
Win%	Winning percentage
*	Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Stars

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2008–09 season.

#	Name	Term[c]	Regular season						Playoffs				Achievements	Reference
			GC	W	L	T/OT	PTS	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%
1	Bob Gainey	1993–1996	171	70	71	30	170	.497	14	6	8	.429
2	Ken Hitchcock	1996–2002	503	277	154	72	626	.622	80	47	33	.588	Presidents' Trophy winner (1998, 1999) Stanley Cup championship (1999) Clarence S. Campbell Bowl winners (1999, 2000)
3	Rick Wilson*	2002	32	13	11	8	34	.531	—	—	—	—
4	Dave Tippett	2002–2009	492	271	156	65	607	.617	47	21	26	.447
5	Marc Crawford	2009–present	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Notes

• ^a  A running total of the number of coaches of the Stars. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
• ^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.
• ^c Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.

References

General

• Dallas Stars Coach Register. Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on 2009-01-01.

Specific