The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. The team is a member of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Established for the 1991–92 NHL season, the Sharks initially played games at the Cow Palace before moving to SAP Center in 1993. The Sharks are owned by San Jose Sports & Entertainment Enterprises.
There have been twelve head coaches in Sharks franchise history. George Kingston was the first coach in Sharks history and lasted two seasons, which included a 1992–93 campaign where the team set an NHL record for losses in a season with 71. Todd McLellan has the most games coached (540), wins (311), points (688) and playoff games coached (62) in franchise history as of the end of the 2021-22 NHL season. Peter DeBoer is the leader in playoff wins, with 32 as of the end of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs, and the only coach to take the team to a Stanley Cup Final. Cap Raeder is the leader in winning percentage, winning his sole game as head coach on December 3, 2002 against the Phoenix Coyotes. Jim Wiley holds the franchise records for fewest wins (17) and fewest points (37), while Kingston holds the record for lowest winning percentage (.192). The current head coach of the Sharks is Ryan Warsofsky, whose hiring was announced on June 13, 2024.
Key # Number of coaches GC Games coached W Wins L Loses T Ties OTL Overtime losses includes shootout losses Win % Winning percentage Spent entire NHL coaching career with the Sharks
Coaches
#NameNatDatesRegular seasonPlayoffs GC W L T OTL Pts Points % GC W L 1George Kingston April 12, 1991 – April 18, 1993 164 28 129 7 — 63 .192— 2Kevin Constantine June 16, 1993 – December 1, 1995 157 55 78 24 — 134 .427 25 11 14 3Jim Wiley December 1, 1995 – June 5, 1996 57 17 37 3 — 37 .325— 4Al Sims June 5, 1996 – May 9, 1997 82 27 47 8 — 62 .378— 5Darryl Sutter June 8, 1997 – December 1, 2002 434 192 167 60 15 459 .529 42 18 24 6Cap Raeder December 1, 2002 – December 4, 2002 1 1 0 0 0 2 1.000— 7Ron Wilson December 4, 2002 – May 12, 2008 385 206 122 19 38 469 .609 52 28 24 8Todd McLellan June 11, 2008 – April 20, 2015 540 311 163 — 66 688 .637 62 30 32 9Peter DeBoer May 28, 2015 – December 11, 2019 361 198 129 — 34 430 .596 60 32 28 10Bob Boughner December 11, 2019 – July 1, 2022 175 67 85 — 23 157 .449— 11David Quinn July 26, 2022 – April 24, 2024 164 41 98 — 25 107 .326— 12Ryan Warsofsky June 13, 2024 – current 164 59 85 — 20 138 —
See also List of NHL head coaches List of current NHL captains List of NHL players
Notes A running total of the number of coaches of the Sharks. Thus, any coach who had two separate terms as head coach is only counted once. Before 1999, overtime losses were included in the loss column; Since 2005, ties are no longer possible. Wiley served as interim coach for the remainder of the 1995–96 season following the firing of Constantine. Raeder served as interim coach for a single game during the 2002–03 season following the firing of Sutter and prior to the hiring of Wilson. Boughner served as interim coach for the remainder of the 2019–20 season following the firing of DeBoer before being named full-time coach.
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