There have been 28 head coaches for the Blues. The franchise's first head coach was Lynn Patrick, who coached for 16 games in his first term. Joel Quenneville is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (593), the most regular-season game wins (307), the most regular-season points (709), the most playoff games coached (68), and the most playoff-game wins (34). Barclay Plager and Bob Plager are the only pair of brothers[5] to have coached the Blues; Barclay coached for four seasons, and Bob coached for eleven games. Red Berenson, Brian Sutter, Quenneville and Ken Hitchcock are the only head coaches to have been awarded the Jack Adams Award with the Blues.[6]Scotty Bowman, Al Arbour, and Emile Francis are the only Blues head coaches to have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder.[7] Six coaches have spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Blues.
Jim Montgomery serves as head coach of the Blues, after being named to the role on November 24, 2024, following the firing of Drew Bannister.[8][9]
Scotty Bowman has coached the Blues for two stints that comprise four seasons.Mike Keenan (shown with the Calgary Flames) coached the Blues for three seasons.Davis Payne coached the Blues for 137 games from 2010 to 2011.Ken Hitchcock was the head coach of the Blues from 2011 until 2017.Mike Yeo served as head coach of the Blues from 2017 to 2018.
Note: Statistics are correct through the hiring of Montgomery during the 2024–25 season.
a A running total of the number of coaches of the Blues. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
b Before the 2005–06 season, the NHL instituted a penalty shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period, which prevented ties.[38]
c Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.
