Scotty Bowman is the best Head coach in NHL history with his 9 Stanley Cup rings coaches teams like the ST. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres, Montreal Canadiens who won 5 cups (1973, 1976-1979), Pittsburgh Penquins who won the cup in 1992, and Detroit Red Wings who won 3 cups (1997-98, 2002). He won 2 coach of the year awards (1977 and 1996) where for his first coach of the year award his team set the record for the most wins in a season with 60 wins which came with the Montreal Canadiens and his other coach of the year award was when he coached the Detroit Red Wings and the team broke the record for wins in a season with 62 wins. He leads the NHL in coaches wins with 1248 and Al Arbour is second over all with 740 wins which means he has 500 more wins than any other coach in history and he also has 233 wins in the playoffs which is also a record. He had 419 wins with the Canadiens, 414 wins with the Red Wings, 210 wins the Sabres, 110 wins with the Blues, and 95 wins with the Penquins and most impressive is that he had 1 50/50 season (in 85-86 he was 18-18-1 in 37 games) and 1 under 500 season (in 86-87 he was 3-7-2 in 12 games) and both with the sabres.
His time with the Montreal Canadiens made his legendary status with 4 Stanley Cups in a row and he had a legendary team to go with it with the likes of hall of famers Ken Dryden, Larry Robinson, Guy Lafleur, and Steve Shutt. With Pittsburgh Penquins he had the likes of hall of famer also of Mario Lemieux and Larry Murphy and while with the Detroit Red Wings along side of Murphy he also coached hall of famer Steve Yzerman and future hall of famers Brendan Shanahan and Nicklas Lidstrom.
He was put into the hall of fame as a builder in 1991 which was in the middle of Stanley Cup run as he had his 5 Canadiens rings by then but still had 1 with the penquins and 3 with the Red Wings still in his future. So in the end Scotty Bowman is the best coach in NHL history even if he had some all-star teams to coach but it is not always the players that get the job done because some coaches with very good teams sometimes can not get them to focused on the team goal of winning a cup. Scotty coached two dynasties (in Montreal and in Detroit) and the Penquins had a very short dynasty of only 2 years and looking back Scotty has done so much that most of what he has done will never be matched again.
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Tom Mehegan
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