List of Carolina Hurricanes head coaches

For the head coaches before 1997, see List of Hartford Whalers head coaches.

The Carolina Hurricanes are an American professional ice hockey team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team joined the NHL in 1979 as an expansion team as the Hartford Whalers, but moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1997. The Hurricanes won their first Stanley Cup championship in 2006. Having first played at the Greensboro Coliseum, the Hurricanes have played their home games at the RBC Center, which was first named the Raleigh Entertainment & Sports Arena, since 1999. The Hurricanes are owned by Peter Karmanos, Jr., Jim Rutherford is their general manager, and Rod Brind'Amour is the team captain.

There have been two head coaches for the Hurricanes team. The team's first head coach was Paul Maurice, who has coached for six seasons. Maurice is the team's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (683), the most regular-season game wins (272), the most regular-season points (662), the most playoff games coached (35), and the most playoff-game wins (17). Peter Laviolette is the only coach to have won the Stanley Cup with the Hurricanes in the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals. None of the Hurricanes coaches have been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. Maurice has been the head coach of the Hurricanes since the firing of Laviolette.

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

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	Paul Maurice	1997–2003	686	283	285	118	684	.499	35	17	18	.486
2	Peter Laviolette	2003–2008	323	167	122	34	368	.570	25	16	9	.640	2005–06 Stanley Cup championship
—	Paul Maurice	2008–present	57	33	19	5	71	.623	18	8	10	.444

Notes

• ^a  A running total of the number of coaches of the Hurricanes. 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

• Carolina Hurricanes Coach Register. Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on 2008-12-24.

Specific