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The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league composed of 32 teams, founded in 1917. Each team is entitled to one head coach who handles the directing of games and team practices, while providing direction and strategy for their players and deciding which players will play in games and the lines they will play on.
William Scott Bowman OC (born September 18, 1933) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey head coach.He holds the record for most wins in National Hockey League (NHL) history, with 1,244 wins in the regular season and 223 in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and his 14 Stanley Cup wins ranks second most of all time [a] for any player, coach or executive.
After their win in 1925, the Victoria Cougars became the last team outside the NHL to win the Stanley Cup. [28] For the 1925–26 season the WCHL was renamed the Western Hockey League (WHL). With the Victoria Cougars' loss in 1926, it would be the last time a non-NHL team competed for the Stanley Cup.
Awarded to the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success (i.e. Coach of the Year). Named after player, coach and general manager Jack Adams. [21] Rick Tocchet Vancouver Canucks: Frank J. Selke Trophy: 1977–78: Awarded to the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game. Named after general manager ...
He was named head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins on December 12, 2015, upon the firing of then-head coach Mike Johnston. [16] On June 12, 2016, Sullivan became just the sixth head coach in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup after being hired mid-season. He did so when the Penguins defeated the San Jose Sharks in the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals. [17]
Mike Babcock has the most regular season wins. [6] Jacques Demers is the only NHL coach to have won the Jack Adams Award twice with the same team. Scotty Bowman also won twice, though with different teams: the first time, he was coach of the Montreal Canadiens. [7] The current head coach of the Red Wings is Todd McLellan, who was hired in ...
Statistically, Tom Johnson was the most successful head coach, with a winning percentage of .738. [11] He is followed by Harry Sinden, who, averaging his two terms, had a winning percentage of .689. [12] The worst head coach statistically was Phil Watson, who, with a winning percentage of .268, only won 16 out of the 84 games he coached. [13]
The Quebec Nordiques were an ice hockey team who played in both the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA). This is a list of the head coaches they had during their existence. The franchise moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1995, and became the Colorado Avalanche.