Randy Carlyle

Randolph Robert Carlyle (born April 19, 1956) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the former head coach of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Toronto Maple Leafs and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim / Anaheim Ducks. As a player, Carlyle dressed for over 1,000 games between the Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets. As a defenseman, he won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in the 1980–81 season and served as a captain of both the Penguins and Jets.

After his playing days ended, Carlyle worked for the Jets, rising to assistant coach in 1995. After the team moved to Phoenix the following year, he stayed in Winnipeg to serve as assistant coach with the Manitoba Moose of the International Hockey League. He was promoted to head coach in the middle of the 1996 season and ultimately served as head coach in two separate stints (1996–2002, 2004–2005). He became an assistant coach with NHL again with the Washington Capitals, where he served from 2002 to 2004. He was hired as head coach of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 2005. In his first tenure with the team of seven seasons, the team won the Stanley Cup once in 2007. He was fired by the Ducks early in the 2011–12 season and was later hired to serve as interim coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs that same year. He coached three more seasons with the team from 2012 to 2015 and made the playoffs once before being fired in 2015. In 2016, he was hired to coach the Ducks again, where he led them to the Conference Finals in his first season and a playoff appearance the following year before being let go midway through the 2018–19 season. In fourteen seasons as a head coach, Carlyle won the Stanley Cup once and reached the playoffs eight times.

Carlyle is partially of Finnish descent, and was raised in Azilda, just northwest of Sudbury, Ontario.