EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers announced on Tuesday that Mike Babcock has been named as the club\u2019s 19th head coach in team history.<\/p>\n
Babcock, 63, brings to Edmonton a 700-418-183 regular-season coaching record over parts of 17 NHL seasons and 1,301 games. Through another 164 games in 14 postseason appearances, he ranks 10th all-time in wins with a 90-74 record.<\/p>\n
Born in Manitouwadge, Ontario, and raised in Saskatoon, he is the only coach in hockey history to have guided teams to a Stanley Cup win (2008), an Olympic gold medal (2010, 2014), an IIHF World Championship (2004), and a World Cup of Hockey title (2016).<\/p>\n
Beginning his NHL coaching career with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 2002 after a pair of seasons leading the club\u2019s AHL affiliate in Cincinnati, he led the Ducks to a 40-27-15 regular season record and enjoyed a 15-6 postseason run to claim a Western Conference banner and a berth in the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n
After two seasons in Anaheim, Babcock moved to the Detroit Red Wings in 2005 and began his decade-long stay in the Motor City with four straight Central Division titles, along with a Stanley Cup win in 2008. Over the course of 10 seasons, he led the organization to a record of 458-223-105, including five first-place finishes in the Central Division, two Stanley Cup Final appearances and eight 100-point seasons.<\/p>\n
The McGill University grad and three-time Jack Adams Award nominee departed Detroit for Toronto in 2015, where he served as bench boss for the Maple Leafs for parts of five seasons, tallying a 173-133-45 record over 351 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers announced on Tuesday that Mike Babcock has been named as the club\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-721480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}