The Chicago Blackhawks are an American professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team was first named the "Chicago Black Hawks", until 1986, when spelling found in the original franchise documents spelled the franchise name as the "Chicago Blackhawks", making the team change its name in response.Diamond, Dan (1991). The Official National Hockey League 75th Anniversary Commemorative Book. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 291. The team is also referred to as the "Hawks". The Blackhawks began their NHL play in the 1926–27 season as an expansion team with the Detroit Cougars and the New York Rangers, and is one of the Original Six teams. The franchise has 6 Stanley Cup championships, most recently winning in the 2014–15 season. Having played in the Chicago Coliseum (1926–1929) and the Chicago Stadium (1929–1994), the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center since 1994. The Blackhawks are owned by the Wirtz Corporation, chaired by Danny Wirtz; Kyle Davidson serves as the team's general manager. The Blackhawks named Nick Foligno as captain in the 2024–25 season, following the team's decision to not re-sign Jonathan Toews for the 2023–24 season.

There have been 42 head coaches for the Blackhawks. The franchise's first head coach was Pete Muldoon, who coached for 44 games in the 1926–27 season. However, he is also well remembered for allegedly "putting a curse" on the Blackhawks, which stipulated that the team would never finish in first in the NHL. The Blackhawks never had a first-place finish until 40 years after that incident. Hughie Lehman, originally the team's goaltender, became the Blackhawks' third head coach after yelling at the first Blackhawks owner, Frederic McLaughlin, that his proposed plays were "the craziest bunch of junk [he had] ever seen".

Orval Tessier became the only head coach to have been awarded the Jack Adams Award with the Blackhawks by winning it in the 1982–83 season. Tommy Gorman, Tommy Ivan, and Rudy Pilous are the only Blackhawks head coaches to have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. Gorman, Bill Stewart, Pilous, and Joel Quenneville are the only coaches to have won a Stanley Cup championship as the head coach of the Hawks.

Billy Reay, the Blackhawks' head coach for 14 seasons, is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season and playoff games coached and wins, with 1012 regular-season games coached, 516 regular-season game wins, 117 playoff games coached, and 57 playoff game wins. Twenty-three head coaches spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Blackhawks. Darryl Sutter and Brian Sutter are the only pair of brothers to have coached the Blackhawks; both coached the Hawks for three seasons each.

Joel Quenneville was the head coach of the Blackhawks from the 2008–09 season to early in the 2018–19 season. and guided the Blackhawks to three Stanley Cup titles in 2010, 2013 and 2015. At the time of his firing, Quenneville was the second-winningest coach both in the Blackhawks and NHL history, and was also second in all-time games coached.

The current coach of the Blackhawks is Jeff Blashill, who was named head coach on May 22, 2025.

Key #Number of coachesGCGames coachedWWins = Two pointsLLosses = No pointsTTies = One pointOTOvertime/shootout losses = One pointPTSPointsWin%Winning percentageRefReference* Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Blackhawks† Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder‡ Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Blackhawksand have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder

Coaches

#NameTermRegular seasonPlayoffsAchievementsRefGCWLT/OTPTSWin%GCWLTWin%1 Pete Muldoon*441922341.4662011.2502 Barney Stanley* 23 4 17 2 10.217—————3 Hughie Lehman* 21 3 17 1 7.167—————4 Herb Gardiner*32 5 23 414.219—————5 Dick Irvin 122648.333—————6 Tom Shaughnessy* 21 10 8 3 23 .548 —————7 Bill Tobin*231110224.5222011 .250—Dick Irvin442417351.5809531.611— Bill Tobin*4818191147.490211 0.5008 Emil Iverson* 21 8 7 6 22 .524—————9 Godfrey Matheson*20 2 0 0 .000—————10 Tommy Gorman†– 73 28 28 17 73 .500 8 6 1 1 .8131933–34 Stanley Cup championship11 Clem Loughlin*–144 61 63 20 142 .4934 1 2 1 .37512 Bill Stewart*–69 22 35 1256 .406 10 7 3 —.7001937–38 Stanley Cup championship13 Paul Thompson*– 27210412741249.45819 712 —.36814 Johnny Gottselig*–18762 105 20 144.3854 04—.00015 Charlie Conacher*–162568422134.414——— ——16 Ebbie Goodfellow*– 14030 91 19 79 .282 —————17 Sid Abel –140 3979 22100.357734 —.42918 Frank Eddolls* 70 13 40 17 43.307——————Dick Irvin 7019391250.357—————19 Tommy Ivan†–10326562173.354———— —20 Rudy Pilous‡–38716215174398.5144018 22—.4501960–61 Stanley Cup championship21 Billy Reay –1,0125163351611,193.589 117 57 60 — .48722 Bill White* 46 16 24 6 38 .413 2 0 2 —.00023 Bob Pulford –160616534156.488408—.00024 Eddie Johnston 80 34 27 19 87 .544 7 3 4 —.42925 Keith Magnuson* –132 49 57 26 124.4703 03—.000—Bob Pulford281214226.4641587—.53326 Orval Tessier*–213 99 93 21 219.51418 99—.5001982–83 Jack Adams Award winner—Bob Pulford –187847726194.51922913—.40927 Bob Murdoch 80 30 41 9 69 .431 5 1 4 —.20028 Mike Keenan –320 153 126 41 347.542 60 33 27—.55029 Darryl Sutter –216 11080 26 246 .569 261115—.42330 Craig Hartsburg –246 104 102 40 248.504 1688—.50031 Dirk Graham*59 1635 840.339—————32 Lorne Molleken*–4718 19 1046.489——— ———Bob Pulford 582824662.534—————33 Alpo Suhonen*82294112 70.427—————34 Brian Sutter –24691103 52 234 .476 5 1 4 —.20035 Trent Yawney*–10333 55 15 81.393—————36 Denis Savard*–1476566 16 146.497—————37 Joel Quenneville –797452249961,000.6271287652—.5943 Stanley Cup championships (2009–10, 2012–13, 2014–15)38 Jeremy Colliton*–205879226200.488945—.44439 Derek King*–7027331064.457————— 40 Luke Richardson*–1905711815129.339————— 41 Anders Sorensen*561730943.384————— 42 Jeff Blashill–present 82 29 39 14 72 —————

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