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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. There have been 23 head coaches in their franchise history; seven during their time in the WHA (1972–1979) and seventeen during their time in the NHL (1979–present).

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. Bill Hunter, who was the team's owner and general manager at the time served three terms. 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. 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". 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 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.

Key

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

Win % and Pts %

Win–loss percentage = W + 1 2 T G C {\displaystyle {\frac {W+{\frac {1}{2}}T}{GC}}} and Points percentage = W + 1 2 T + 1 2 O T G C {\displaystyle {\frac {W+{\frac {1}{2}}T+{\frac {1}{2}}OT}{GC}}}
  • 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.

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 1979–80 80 28 39 13 – 0.431 3 0 3 0.000
2 Bryan Watson 1980–81 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 1989–90 to 1990–91 160 75 65 20 – 0.531 40 25 15 0.625
4 Ted Green 1991–92 to 1993–94 188 65 102 21 – 0.402 16 8 8 0.500
– Glen Sather 1993–94 60 22 27 11 – 0.458 – – – –
5 George Burnett 1994–95 35 12 20 3 – 0.386 – – – –
6 Ron Low 1994–95 to 1998–99 341 139 162 40 – 0.466 28 10 18 0.357
7 Kevin Lowe 1999–2000 82 32 26 16 8 0.537 5 1 4 0.200
8 Craig MacTavish 2000–01 to 2008–09 656 301 252 47 56 0.537 36 19 17 0.528
9 Pat Quinn 2009–10 82 27 47 – 8 0.378 – – – –
10 Tom Renney 2010–11 to 2011–12 164 57 85 – 22 0.415 – – – –
11 Ralph Krueger 2012–13 48 19 22 – 7 0.469 – – – –
12 Dallas Eakins 2013–14 to 2014–15 113 36 63 – 14 0.381 – – – –
13 Todd Nelson 2014–15 51 17 25 – 9 0.422 – – – –
14 Todd McLellan 2015–16 to 2018–19 266 123 119 – 24 0.502 13 7 6 0.538
15 Ken Hitchcock 2018–19 62 26 28 – 8 0.484 – – – –
16 Dave Tippett 2019–20 to 2021–22 171 95 62 – 14 0.596 8 1 7 0.125
17 Jay Woodcroft 2021–22 to 2023–24 133 79 41 – 13 0.643 28 14 14 0.500
18 Kris Knoblauch 2023–24 to present 69 46 18 5 0 0.703 25 15 10 0.600

Notes

  1. Watson coached the first 18 games of the 1980–81 season and was replaced by Sather.
  2. Green coached the first 24 games of the 1993–94 season and was replaced by Sather.
  3. Burnett coached the first 35 games of the 1994–95 season and was replaced by Low.
  4. Lowe's win/loss/tie record is 32–34–16 for a points percentage of 0.537.
  5. MacTavish's win/loss/tie record is 301–273–82 for a points percentage of 0.537.
  6. Eakins coached the first 31 games of the 2014–15 season and was replaced by Nelson.
  7. McLellan coached the first 20 games of the 2018–19 season and was replaced by Hitchcock.
  8. Tippett coached the first 44 games of the 2021–22 season and was replaced by Woodcroft.
  9. Woodcroft coached the first 13 games of the 2023–24 season and was replaced by Knoblauch.

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