2007-11-22 18:37:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
The numbers certainly support Scotty. I just get a little confused about a rather circular argument being used. First, he's compared to Blake by saying Blake only had to win two rounds to Scotty's four (which of course isn't completely correct because in some cases there were three rounds) but, then to say he won more games is a little off. The reason being, if you had to play more rounds to win the cup, then of course you also needed to win more games; one portion in effect negates the other.
I think the best numbers to support the claim are that he coached five different teams into at least the semi-finals and won cups with three of them. Blake did it with the same core lineup on the same team but, Scotty did it with totally lineups each time. To be fair, he inherited a pretty good lineup in Pittsburgh and Buffalo but, both the Canadiens and the Red Wings were losing teams before he took over.
Some of the greatest players the modern game has known came under Scotty's tutelage, including Lafleur, Dryden, Perrault, Lemieux, Yzerman, Lidstrom and Robinson.
Scotty has left the league and the game quite a legacy. It might be a good idea for the league to come up with a way to immortalize him with some kind of annual or lifetime hockey builder award.
2007-11-23 02:44:22 · answer #1 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Scotty Bowman was the greatest coach in the history!!!
He won nine Cups as a coach, one more than his mentor Toe Blake, who won seven of his eight at a time when Original Six teams had to survive only two rounds, not four.
Bowman won 1,244 regular season games, more games than all but two men, Al Arbour and Dick Irvin, have coached. Bowman won 223 Stanley Cup playoff games -- 100 more than the next best man, Arbour.
Bowman won the Jack Adams Award twice and was runner-up three times. He coached the three teams that won the most games and earned the most points ever in a season: the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens (132 points, 60 wins), the '95-96 Red Wings (131, 62) and the '77-78 Canadiens (129, 59).
The list of records, awards and accomplishments goes on and on. But Bowman's greatness goes beyond it.
He took his first job in the 1960s when the NHL had only 12 teams and players were making real-world money. When he retired, it was the 21st century, the league had ballooned to 30 teams and players were multi-millionaires. He found ways to succeed in five different decades.
Bowman kept the same old-school principles, but he adjusted with the times and came up with innovations. He studied video before other coaches did. His encyclopedic, calculating mind took to computers quickly.
When the Wings had five talented Russians in the 1990s, he put them on one unit, the "Russian Five," to take advantage of their native, puck-possession style in a North American, dump-and-chase league.
How many of his former players have become coaches? Or GMs? Everyone has adopted something from him
2007-11-23 08:26:12 · answer #2 · answered by bigthinker 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Scotty Bowman and Herb Brooks
2007-11-23 10:33:32 · answer #3 · answered by andyjtaylor2000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scotty Bowman is the best coach all time in NHL history.
2007-11-23 11:25:44 · answer #4 · answered by bigjd_rockin 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Scotty Bowman.
1,248 wins, 9 stanley cups, 28 playoff appearances...
1248-574-314-10... dont see records as good as that.
William Scott Bowman, best coach all time.
2007-11-23 17:41:12 · answer #5 · answered by McMoose--RIPYAHS 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Toe Blake, he won eight Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens between 1955 - 1968.
2007-11-23 03:04:51 · answer #6 · answered by aspiring_paranormal_journalist 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
While Scotty was in his career of coaching, Id have to say that he was the best coach, but now Id have to say Peter Laviolette. He is doin a good job with the Hurricanes now. He lead them to the stanley cup in 06. And for carolina to have as many injuries as they are, they are playing pretty good.He has really did a good job to this hockey club.
2007-11-23 11:57:02 · answer #7 · answered by ~*Jessica*~ 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Got to go with the crowd on this one and say Scotty Bowman, he was a true legend and we'll never see another one.
2007-11-23 02:51:23 · answer #8 · answered by Vinny 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hector 'Toe' Blake
Scotty Bowman, and Alger Arbour were both pretty successful too
2007-11-23 06:52:03 · answer #9 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Terry O'Riely
2007-11-23 08:00:32 · answer #10 · answered by T. A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋