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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.
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.
After a win over the New York Rangers on February 8, 2021, Trotz earned his 850th career win as NHL head coach and passed Ken Hitchcock for third place on the all-time coach wins list. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] On May 9, 2022, Trotz was relieved from his duties as the Islanders head coach as the Islanders missed the playoffs for the first time since 2018.
Most game-winning goals in a single season: Phil Esposito (1970–71 and 1971–72) and Michel Goulet (1983–84), 16; Most game-winning goals in a single playoffs season: Brad Richards (2004), 7; Most game-winning goals in a playoff series: Mike Bossy (six-game series) (1983), 4; Most career game-winning goals: Jaromir Jagr, 135
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.
Prior to coaching the Wings, Kromm had been a successful coach in the World Hockey Association, where he guided the high-flying Winnipeg Jets to the 1976 Avco Cup championship. He won the Robert Schmertz Trophy as WHA Coach of the Year for the 1975-76 season. That fall, he was as an assistant coach for Canada at the inaugural Canada Cup.
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 ...
The Vegas Golden Knights lead all NHL teams, in terms of playoff winning percentage, as their 57–38 (.600) record is the highest. [24] The Seattle Kraken, being the most recent established NHL team, have the fewest playoff games played (14). [39] The Winnipeg Jets have the lowest playoff winning percentage, (.340). [39]