List of Quebec Nordiques head coaches facts for kids
The Quebec Nordiques were an ice hockey team who played in both the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA). This is a list of the head coaches they had during their existence. The franchise moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1995, and became the Colorado Avalanche.
Michel Bergeron coached the most games and won the most points all-time with the Nordiques, with 634 games and 616 points. Maurice Filion and Michel Bergeron were the only coaches to have three terms with the Nordiques. Marc Crawford was the only Nordiques coach to win the Jack Adams Award.
Contents
Key
# | Number of coaches |
GC | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
T | Ties |
Pts | Points |
* | Spent entire NHL coaching career with the Nordiques |
WHA coaches
# | Name | Term | Regular season | Playoffs | Awards won | Reference | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GC | W | L | T | Pts | GC | W | L | |||||
1 | Maurice Richard | 1972–1973 | ||||||||||
2 | Maurice Filion | 1972–1973 | ||||||||||
3 | Jacques Plante | 1973–1974 | ||||||||||
4 | Jean-Guy Gendron | 1974–1976 | ||||||||||
5 | Marc Boileau | 1976–1978 | ||||||||||
– | Maurice Filion | 1977–1978 |
NHL coaches
# | Name | Term | Regular season | Playoffs | Awards won | Reference | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GC | W | L | T | Pts | GC | W | L | |||||
1 | Jacques Demers | 1979–1980 | 80 | 25 | 44 | 11 | 61 | — | — | — | ||
2 | Michel Bergeron | 1980–1981 | 74 | 29 | 29 | 16 | 74 | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||
3 | Maurice Filion|1981 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | — | — | — | |||
– | Michel Bergeron | 1981–1987 | 480 | 224 | 193 | 63 | 511 | 63 | 29 | 34 | ||
4 | Andre Savard| 1987 | 24 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 21 | — | — | — | |||
5 | Ron Lapointe| 1987–1989 | 89 | 33 | 50 | 6 | 72 | — | — | — | |||
6 | Jean Perron | 1989 | 47 | 16 | 26 | 5 | 37 | — | — | — | ||
– | Michel Bergeron | 1989–1990 | 80 | 12 | 61 | 7 | 31 | — | — | — | ||
7 | Dave Chambers| 1990–1991 | 98 | 19 | 64 | 15 | 53 | — | — | — | |||
8 | Pierre Page | 1991–1994 | 230 | 98 | 103 | 30 | 225 | 6 | 2 | 4 | ||
9 | Marc Crawford | 1994–1995 | 48 | 30 | 13 | 5 | 65 | — | — | — | 1995 Jack Adams Award winner |
- A running total of the number of coaches of the Nordiques. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
- Maurice Filion's six games coached with the Nordiques were in the middle of the season, not in the end of the season.
Related pages
- List of NHL head coaches
- Head Coaches of the Colorado Avalanche
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