List of Vancouver Canucks head coaches

Marc Crawford was the head coach of the Canucks from 1999 to 2006.

The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canucks are a members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Canucks currently play home games at General Motors Place. The Canucks joined the NHL in 1970 as an expansion team, along with the Buffalo Sabres. They have advanced to the Stanley Cup finals twice but were defeated by the New York Islanders in 1982, and the New York Rangers in 1994. The Canucks are owned by Francesco Aquilini, Mike Gillis is their general manager, and Roberto Luongo is the team captain.

There have been 16 head coaches for the Canucks. The franchise's first head coach was Hal Laycoe, who coached the Canucks for two seasons. Marc Crawford coached the most games of any Canucks head coach with 529 games and has the most points all-time with the Canucks with 586 points. He is followed by Pat Quinn, who has 310 points all-time with the Canucks. Alain Vigneault has the most points in a season of any Canucks coach, with 105 in the 2006–07 season. Roger Neilson is the only Hockey Hall of Fame inductee to coach the Canucks. Quinn and Vigneault are the only two Canucks head coaches to win a Jack Adams Award with the team. Bill LaForge, who coached the start of the 1984 season, has the least points with the Canucks (10). Harry Neale served the most terms as head coach of the Canucks with three while Pat Quinn served two. Vigneault has been the head coach of the Canucks since the 2006–07 season.

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
*	Spent entire NHL coaching career with the Canucks

Coaches

Mike Keenan (shown with the Calgary Flames) was the head coach of the Canucks for two seasons.

Pat Quinn was the head coach of the Canucks for five seasons.

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

#	Name	Term	Regular season						Playoffs			Awards	Reference
			GC	W	L	T	OT	PTS	GC	W	L
1	Hal Laycoe	1970–1972	156	44	96	16	—	104	—	—	—
2	Vic Stasiuk	1972–1973	78	22	47	9	—	53	—	—	—
3	Bill McCreary	1973–1974	41	9	25	7	—	25	—	—	—
4	Phil Maloney*	1974–1977	232	95	105	32	—	222	7	1	6
5	Orland Kurtenbach*	1977–1978	125	36	62	27	—	99	—	—	—
6	Harry Neale	1978–1982	315	106	144	65	—	177	10	2	8
7	Roger Neilson	1982–1984	133	51	61	21	—	123	21	12	9
—	Harry Neale	1984	32	15	13	4	—	34	4	1	3
8	Bill LaForge*	1984	20	4	14	2	—	10	—	—	—
—	Harry Neale	1984–1985	60	21	32	7	—	49	—	—	—
9	Tom Watt	1985–1987	160	52	87	21	—	125	3	0	3
10	Bob McCammon	1987–1991	294	102	156	36	—	240	7	3	4
11	Pat Quinn	1991–1994	274	138	108	28	—	304	55	29	26	1992 Jack Adams Award winner
12	Rick Ley	1994–1996	124	47	50	27	—	121	11	4	7
—	Pat Quinn	1996	6	3	3	0	—	6	6	2	4
13	Tom Renney	1996–1997	101	39	53	9	—	87	—	—	—
14	Mike Keenan	1997–1999	108	36	54	18	—	90	—	—	—
15	Marc Crawford	1999–2006	529	246	189	62	32	586	27	12	15
16	Alain Vigneault	2006–present	246	133	86	—	27	293	22	11	11	2007 Jack Adams Award winner

Notes

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

References

General

• Vancouver Canucks Coach Register. Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
• Vancouver Canucks: All-Time Records (PDF). The Vancouver Canucks Limited Partnership and the National Hockey League. Retrieved on 2009-04-20.

Specific