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Florida Panthers all-time coaches

Roger Neilson went 53-56-23 as the first head coach of the Florida Panthers.

Roger Neilson went 53-56-23 as the first head coach of the Florida Panthers.  (Al Bello / Allsport)

By Keven Lerner
 and Steve Svekis
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

With Joel Quenneville being hired by the Florida Panthers on April 8, 2019, take a look back at the team’s coaches in its 23-year history.

Doug MacLean (1995-97)

Doug MacLean went 83-71-33 and led the Panthers to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1996.  (Gary Caskey / Reuters)

John Torchetti (2004)

John Torchetti went 10-12-5 during his time as head coach of the Florida Panthers.  (Eliot J. Schechter / Getty Images)

Jacques Martin (2005-08)

Jacques Martin went 110-100-36 as head coach of the Florida Panthers.  (Scott Cunningham / Getty Images)

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Peter DeBoer (2008-11)

Peter DeBoer went 103-107-36 as head coach of the Florida Panthers.  (Eliot J. Schechter / Getty Images)

Gerard Gallant (2014-16)

Gallant, after compiling a 96-65-25 mark over two-plus seasons and getting Florida to the playoffs after a four-year absence, was fired on Nov. 27, 2016, with his team owning an 11-10-1 mark. Gallant’s 1.17 points per game coached in Florida is the best in franchise history.

  (Wilfredo Lee / AP)

Tom Rowe (2016)

First-year Panthers general manager Tom Rowe stepped behind the bench on an interim basis when Gerard Gallant was fired on Nov. 27, 2016.

  (Alan Diaz / AP)

Joel Quenneville (2019-)

Quenneville won Stanley Cups with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010, ’13 and ’15.

  (Charles Cherney / TFW Chicago Tribune)

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Keven Lerner

Keven Lerner graduated from Florida State University in 1990. After an internship with the New Jersey Nets, he spent the next eight years as Lead Editor for ESPN SportsTicker in Jersey City, N.J. After a two-year stint at USAToday.com, he joined the Sun Sentinel in 1997 - just in time to cover the Marlins’ first world championship.

Steve Svekis

Steve Svekis has been at the Sun Sentinel since 1989. He has been the sports Sunday editor and page designer, assistant sports editor over high schools, business columnist and now web producer. He wrote and voiced a web-animated parody of the Miami Dolphins in 2004 and 2005 that earned an EPpy, beating out the New York Times and Toronto Star. He was a Dolphins beat writer in 2010.

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