For the American college football coach, see Mike Babcock (American football).
Ice hockey player
Mike Babcock
Babcock in 2013
Born
(1963-04-29) April 29, 1963 (age 60) Manitouwadge, Ontario, Canada
Coached for
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Detroit Red Wings Toronto Maple Leafs
National team
Canada
Coaching career
1991–2023
Mike Babcock (born April 29, 1963) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player. He spent parts of eighteen seasons as a professional and head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). He began as head coach of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, whom he led to the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals. In 2005, Babcock signed with the Detroit Red Wings, winning the Stanley Cup with them in 2008, and helping them to the Stanley Cup playoffs every year during his tenure, becoming the winningest coach in Red Wings history. In 2015, he left Detroit to coach the Toronto Maple Leafs, a position he held until he was fired in 2019. In 2023, he attempted a return to the NHL as head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets; however, he resigned before the beginning of the 2023–24 season, without coaching a game, amidst investigations into allegations of misconduct.
Babcock was born in Manitouwadge, Ontario, and grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.[1] As of April 2024, he is the only coach to gain entry to the Triple Gold Club (Stanley Cup title, IIHF World Championship title, and Olympic gold medal in men's ice hockey). He guided the Red Wings to the Stanley Cup in 2008; he led Team Canada to gold at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships in 2004; and he led Team Canada to gold at both the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Babcock is the only coach to win six distinct national or international titles. In addition to the three distinct titles described above, he guided Canada to gold at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, to gold at the IIHF World Junior Championships in 1997, and the University of Lethbridge to the CIS University Cup in 1994. During his first coaching tenure from 1991 to 2019, Babcock's teams missed the post-season only four times.
^"Mike Babcock (B.Ed. (Physical Education) 1986) 25th NHL coach to reach 1,000 game milestone". McGill University. February 15, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
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the Edmonton Oilers in 1987. He was followed in this feat in 2009 by MikeBabcock of the Detroit Red Wings. In winning the 1994 Stanley Cup, Keenan managed...
been retired by the Red Wings, Modano went for no. 90 instead. Coach MikeBabcock expressed a desire for Modano to center Detroit's third line with Dan...
reach the post-season again until the 2002–03 season with head coach MikeBabcock. They entered the playoffs in seventh place with a 40–27–9–6 record,...
the Aeros, McLellan led Houston to the Calder Cup in 2003. In 2005, MikeBabcock selected McLellan to serve as his assistant with the Detroit Red Wings...
Severson from the New Jersey Devils three days later. On July 1, they hired MikeBabcock as their new head coach amid much controversy, as he had a reputation...
sought-after MikeBabcock, a Stanley Cup champion and two-time Olympic Gold medalist with Team Canada, as the team's new head coach. Babcock agreed to a...
the Marlies. On November 20, 2019, Keefe was announced as MikeBabcock's successor after Babcock was relieved of his duties by Maple Leafs' president Brendan...
and into the opening day of training camp. He also fired head coach MikeBabcock after a poor start to the season, promoting Marlies coach Sheldon Keefe...
have contributed the most to his team's success", is named after him. MikeBabcock has the most regular season wins. Jacques Demers is the only NHL coach...
the conclusion of the 2022–23 season. MikeBabcock was subsequently hired to replace Larsen; however, Babcock resigned before coaching a game for Columbus...
alongside Tyler Bozak and Phil Kessel through the 2014–15 NHL season. When MikeBabcock took over as head coach, he paired van Riemsdyk with two-way forwards...
Cup as part of the Detroit Red Wings, more than any other NHL team. MikeBabcock became the first, and so far only, coach to win all three components...
2017–18. In 2023, Vincent was named head coach of the Blue Jackets, after MikeBabcock resigned prior to the 2023–24 season. Vincent made his Quebec Major Junior...
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2008 first round series with the Nashville Predators, Red Wings coach MikeBabcock decided to pull him in favor of Osgood midway through Game 4 and named...
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