List of NHL coaches with 500 wins
The NHL 500 Victory Coach List chronologically lists all National Hockey League coaches who have achieved at least 500 regular season wins over the course of their careers . Achieving this milestone is one of the most significant accomplishments for coaches in the NHL, along with reaching the 1,000-game mark. The next part lists the trainers who are about to be reached.
Since the league was founded in 1917 , 26 coaches have so far achieved 500 victories. Trainers highlighted in yellow were active in the NHL during the 2019/20 season . The statistics of the currently active coaches are up to date at the end of the 2019/20 season.
Legend
- Pos: Indicates the order of the trainers. This is determined by the date on which the milestone was reached. If the date is the same, the number of previous games is compared.
- Name: gives the name of the trainer.
- Country: Shows the flag of the country of which the coach was a national.
- Career game: Name the number of games the coach needed to achieve 500 wins.
- Team: Name of the team the coach was working for when he reached his 500th win.
- Date: The date on which the coach achieved his 500th victory.
- Sp: Mention the number of games the coach played in his entire NHL career.
- S: Mention the number of wins the coach has achieved in his entire NHL career.
Coach with 500 wins
A total of 26 trainers have so far achieved or exceeded the mark of 500 victories. The Canadian Dick Irvin was the first to do this at the beginning of the 1949/50 season . It was not until 19 years later that his successor to the coaching post of the Montréal Canadiens , Toe Blake , also managed to reach this milestone. The most successful coach is Scotty Bowman , who was responsible in by far the most with 2141 games, but is also clearly at the top with 1244 wins. He follows after victories Al Arbor , whose 740 victories with the New York Islanders represent the most with a single team.
Of the 26 coaches who have reached the milestone so far, all but Ron Wilson , who was born in Canada, John Tortorella and Peter Laviolette are Canadian citizens. The original Six - Franchise of the Montreal Canadiens is with three coaches who have reached the milestone in the service of the team, most coaches.
Item | Surname | country | Career game | team | date | Sp | S. |
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1 | Dick Irvin | 1003 | Montréal Canadiens | Jan. 22, 1950 | 1449 | 692 | |
2 | Toe Blake | 911 | Montréal Canadiens | 24 Mar 1968 | 914 | 500 | |
3 | Billy Reay | 988 | Chicago Black Hawks | Apr 6, 1975 | 1102 | 542 | |
4th | Scotty Bowman | 825 | Montréal Canadiens | Dec. 21, 1978 | 2141 | 1244 | |
5 | Al Arbor | 962 | New York Islanders | Feb 11, 1984 | 1607 | 782 | |
6th | Mike Keenan | 968 | Vancouver Canucks | Nov 19, 1998 | 1386 | 672 | |
7th | Pat Quinn | 1019 | Toronto Maple Leafs | Dec 6, 2001 | 1400 | 684 | |
8th | Bryan Murray | 1029 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | Jan. 25, 2002 | 1239 | 620 | |
9 | Pat Burns | 1017 | New Jersey Devils | 30th Mar 2004 | 1019 | 501 | |
10 | Jacques Martin | 1064 | Florida panthers | Jan. 18, 2008 | 1294 | 613 | |
11 | Ron Wilson | 1064 | San Jose Sharks | Feb 9, 2008 | 1401 | 648 | |
12 | Jacques Lemaire | 1131 | Minnesota Wild | Apr 3, 2008 | 1262 | 617 | |
13 | Ken Hitchcock | 960 | Columbus Blue Jackets | Feb. 19, 2009 | 1598 | 849 | |
14th | Joel Quenneville | 963 | Chicago Blackhawks | Dec 1, 2009 | 1705 | 925 | |
15th | Marc Crawford | 1032 | Dallas Stars | 16. Mar. 2010 | 1169 | 556 | |
16 | Lindy Ruff | 1024 | Buffalo Sabers | Jan. 6, 2011 | 1493 | 736 | |
17th | Barry defiance | 1062 | Nashville Predators | 30th Mar 2012 | 1674 | 845 | |
18th | Darryl Sutter | 1027 | Los Angeles Kings | 20 Mar 2014 | 1285 | 634 | |
19th | Mike Babcock | 895 | Detroit Red Wings | Dec 6, 2014 | 1301 | 700 | |
20th | Paul Maurice | 1163 | Winnipeg Jets | Jan. 13, 2015 | 1600 | 732 | |
21st | Alain Vigneault | 942 | New York Rangers | Feb 14, 2015 | 1285 | 689 | |
22nd | Dave Tippett | 972 | Arizona Coyotes | Nov 27, 2015 | 1185 | 590 | |
23 | Claude Julien | 915 | Boston Bruins | Feb 13, 2016 | 1256 | 658 | |
24 | John Tortorella | 1040 | Columbus Blue Jackets | Dec 18, 2016 | 1327 | 655 | |
25th | Peter Laviolette | 970 | Nashville Predators | Jan. 22, 2017 | 1210 | 637 | |
26th | Bruce Boudreau | 837 | Minnesota Wild | 24 Mar 2018 | 984 | 567 |
Trainers who are about to reach the milestone
The following still active coaches are less than 50 victories away from reaching the milestone.
Surname | country | Sp | S. |
---|---|---|---|
Todd McLellan | 876 | 463 |
See also
- List of NHL players with 1000 points
- List of NHL players with 500 goals
- List of NHL players with 800 assists
- List of NHL goalkeepers with 300 wins
Web links
- Register of all NHL coaches on hockey-reference.com