The Edmonton Oilers announced Tuesday that Mike Babcock has been named as the club’s 19th head coach in team history.
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.
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).
Beginning his NHL coaching career with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 2002 after a pair of seasons leading the club’s 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.
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.
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.
Also announced today, the Oilers announced that D.J. Smith has been named associate coach under Mike Babcock.
Smith, 49, most recently served as interim head coach of the Los Angeles Kings, assembling an 11-6-6 record from March 1st through the end of the 2025-26 regular season.
He had originally joined the club as an assistant in February 2024.
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