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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
Wayne Gretzky, the NHL's all-time leading scorer, played in 1,487 games. Teemu Selanne played in 1,451 games, 28th all-time. Twins Daniel Sedin (front, 1,306 games) and Henrik Sedin (1,330 games) are the only pair of brothers to play all their 1,000 games with one team.
Fifty of the listed players who have played 1,000 games have played for only one franchise (of which 17 are still active as of the current 2023–24 season). Five of those players played exclusively for the Detroit Red Wings and four played for the Montreal Canadiens , those teams having the most such players.
b Prior to the 2005–06 season, the NHL instituted a penalty shootout for regular-season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period, which prevented ties. [40] c The term(s) column lists the first year of the season of the coach's first game and the last year of the season of the coach's last game. For example, someone who ...
The franchise's first head coach was Lynn Patrick, who coached for 16 games in his first term. Joel Quenneville is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (593), the most regular-season game wins (307), the most regular-season points (709), the most playoff games coached (68), and the most playoff-game wins (34).
a A running total of the number of coaches of the Capitals. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once. b Since the start of the 2005–06 season, the NHL has instituted a penalty shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period instead of ending in a tie.
The player who scores during this extra time is given the overtime goal. All overtime in the NHL is sudden death—meaning the first team to score is the winner—so the player who scores in overtime also has the game-winning goal.
Al Arbour is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular season games coached (1,500) and the most regular season game wins (740); he is also the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (198), and the most playoff game wins (119). [5] Arbour is the only coach so far to have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of ...