Mario Pouliot

Mario Pouliot (born September 30, 1963) is a Canadian ice hockey coach who is the head coach of the Oshawa Generals. He began coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) as an assistant coach with the Saint-Hyacinthe Laser. He later coached the Collège Antoine-Girouard Gaulois for eight seasons, and once held the Quebec AAA Midget Hockey League record for the most career wins by a head coach. He also led the Gaulois to the finals of the 2003 Air Canada Cup for the Canadian national Midget AAA championship. He later served two terms as an assistant coach for the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies around a head-coaching stint for the Baie-Comeau Drakkar. During this time, he was chosen as head coach of Team Quebec at the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge.

Pouliot later coached the Acadie–Bathurst Titan for four seasons, and won the 2018 Memorial Cup championship, then served as the coach and general manager of the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies from 2018 to 2021. He was awarded both the Ron Lapointe Trophy as the QMJHL's coach of the year, and the Maurice Filion Trophy as the QMJHL's general manager of the year in the 2018–19 season. He was also named the Canadian Hockey League Coach of the Year, and led the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies to a 2019 Memorial Cup championship. In 2019, Pouliot became the only head coach to win consecutive Memorial Cup championships with different teams.

Retiring from the QMJHL after a heart attack in 2021, he later had brief coaching tenures with the Bonnyville Pontiacs of the Alberta Junior Hockey League, and professionally with HC Sierre of the Swiss League where he coached in son-in-law Éric Castonguay. He joined the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) as an associate coach in March 2025, and was named head coach for the 2025–26 OHL season.