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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.
[10] 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]
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. [25]
With the win, the Lightning became only the 3rd team in NHL history to reach the mark and Cooper became the second coach in NHL history to coach a team to 60 wins, joining Scotty Bowman. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Tampa Bay would go on to win 62 games during the 2018–19 season, tying the 1995–96 Detroit Red Wings for the most wins in a season in NHL ...
b Head coaches with multiple terms are counted once; figures are career totals. For a specific order of the coaches see the Footnotes section. c Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season. d Gene Ubriaco served as the Penguins' head coach to begin the 1989–90 season; the team began with a 10–14–2 record. [39]
For his team's success, Roy won the Jack Adams Award for the NHL's top coach, winning the honour over the Detroit Red Wings' Mike Babcock and the Tampa Bay Lightning's Jon Cooper. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] During the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs , Roy became known for aggressively pulling goaltender Semyon Varlamov to set up a 6-on-5, empty-net scenario ...