Brind'Amour, 52, has led the Hurricanes to a 25-9-7 record and a .695 points percentage in his fifth season as head coach. He is set to coach at the All-Star Game for the second straight year, after becoming the first head coach to represent Hartford/Carolina at the event in 2022. Since the NHL began selecting coaches for the All-Star Game based on their teams' regular-season performance in 1995-96, Brind'Amour looks to join Doug MacLean (Florida: 1996-97), Ken Hitchcock (Dallas: 1997-99), Todd McLellan (San Jose: 2009, 2012) and Todd Reirden (Washington: 2019-20) as the fifth individual to coach at the event multiple times in his first five seasons as a head coach. He has led the Hurricanes to division titles in each of the past two seasons, as Carolina won the Central Division in 2020-21 and the Metropolitan Division in 2021-22, marking the team's first division championships since 2005-06. In the 2020-21 season, Brind'Amour became the first coach in franchise history to win the Jack Adams Award, given annually to the NHL's coach of the year. He has earned a 199-95-35 record in five seasons with Carolina, and his .658 points percentage ranks fourth all-time among NHL head coaches with at least 100 games of experience. With a win in any of the Hurricanes' next three games, Brind'Amour would reach the 200-win plateau in the third-fewest games of any head coach in NHL history. During his tenure, Carolina leads the NHL in penalty kill percentage (84.2%) and ranks third in points percentage and wins, and the Hurricanes have also clinched a playoff berth in each of the past four seasons (2019-22). Brind'Amour is the first head coach in franchise history to lead the team to the postseason in each of his first three or more seasons in charge, and he has led the Hurricanes to five series victories over that span, marking the first time that Hartford/Carolina has won a playoff round in consecutive seasons.
