List of NHL coaches with 500 wins

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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

Scotty Bowman is the most successful NHL coach of all time with 1,244 wins
  • 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.
1 Dick Irvin CanadaCanada 1003 Montréal Canadiens Jan. 22, 1950 1449 692
2 Toe Blake CanadaCanada 911 Montréal Canadiens 24 Mar 1968 914 500
3 Billy Reay CanadaCanada 988 Chicago Black Hawks 0Apr 6, 1975 1102 542
4th Scotty Bowman CanadaCanada 825 Montréal Canadiens Dec. 21, 1978 2141 1244
5 Al Arbor CanadaCanada 962 New York Islanders Feb 11, 1984 1607 782
6th Mike Keenan CanadaCanada 968 Vancouver Canucks Nov 19, 1998 1386 672
7th Pat Quinn CanadaCanada 1019 Toronto Maple Leafs 0Dec 6, 2001 1400 684
8th Bryan Murray CanadaCanada 1029 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Jan. 25, 2002 1239 620
9 Pat Burns CanadaCanada 1017 New Jersey Devils 30th Mar 2004 1019 501
10 Jacques Martin CanadaCanada 1064 Florida panthers Jan. 18, 2008 1294 613
11 Ron Wilson United StatesUnited States 1064 San Jose Sharks 0Feb 9, 2008 1401 648
12 Jacques Lemaire CanadaCanada 1131 Minnesota Wild 0Apr 3, 2008 1262 617
13 Ken Hitchcock CanadaCanada 960 Columbus Blue Jackets Feb. 19, 2009 1598 849
14th Joel Quenneville CanadaCanada 963 Chicago Blackhawks 0Dec 1, 2009 1705 925
15th Marc Crawford CanadaCanada 1032 Dallas Stars 16. Mar. 2010 1169 556
16 Lindy Ruff CanadaCanada 1024 Buffalo Sabers 0Jan. 6, 2011 1493 736
17th Barry defiance CanadaCanada 1062 Nashville Predators 30th Mar 2012 1674 845
18th Darryl Sutter CanadaCanada 1027 Los Angeles Kings 20 Mar 2014 1285 634
19th Mike Babcock CanadaCanada 895 Detroit Red Wings 0Dec 6, 2014 1301 700
20th Paul Maurice CanadaCanada 1163 Winnipeg Jets Jan. 13, 2015 1600 732
21st Alain Vigneault CanadaCanada 942 New York Rangers Feb 14, 2015 1285 689
22nd Dave Tippett CanadaCanada 972 Arizona Coyotes Nov 27, 2015 1185 590
23 Claude Julien CanadaCanada 915 Boston Bruins Feb 13, 2016 1256 658
24 John Tortorella United StatesUnited States 1040 Columbus Blue Jackets Dec 18, 2016 1327 655
25th Peter Laviolette United StatesUnited States 970 Nashville Predators Jan. 22, 2017 1210 637
26th Bruce Boudreau CanadaCanada 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 CanadaCanada 876 463

See also

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