Rick Bowness

Rick Bowness
Bowness as assistant coach for the Vancouver Canucks (2009)
Date of birth	January 25, 1955
place of birth	Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1975 , 2nd round, 26th position Atlanta Flames
Career stations
1972-1973	Remparts de Quebec
1973-1974	Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal
1975-1977	Atlanta Flames Nova Scotia Voyageurs Tulsa Oilers
1977-1988	Detroit Red Wings
1978-1980	St. Louis Blues Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1980-1982	Winnipeg Jets Tulsa Oilers
1982-1984	Jets de Sherbrooke

Richard Gary "Rick" Bowness (born January 25, 1955 in Moncton , New Brunswick ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his active professional career, the right winger played in the National Hockey League for the Atlanta Flames , Detroit Red Wings , St. Louis Blues and Winnipeg Jets , but was mainly used in minor leagues . He has been the head coach of the Dallas Stars since December 2019 , having previously coached a large number of NHL teams as head or assistant coach, the Canadian has held the record for the most NHL games completed in these roles since 2017 .

Career

As a player

Rick Bowness played in his youth from 1972 to 1975 for the Remparts de Québec and the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) before moving to 26th position in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft Atlanta Flames was selected. With the Flames, however, the right winger did not establish himself, but was instead mainly used by their farm teams , the Tulsa Oilers from the Central Hockey League (CHL) and the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League (AHL). As a result, Atlanta gave him in August 1977 for financial compensation to the Detroit Red Wings , with which the Canadian then completed his only complete NHL season in 1977/78. Nevertheless, the Red Wings sent him to the St. Louis Blues in October 1978, also in return for monetary consideration .

In St. Louis, Bowness did not come regularly to NHL missions, but was mainly on the ice for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the CHL. After two seasons he was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for Craig Norwich , for which he had his statistically best playing time in 1980/81 with 25 points from 45 games. In the next year, however, he ran again, apart from a playoff game, for the Tulsa Oilers. From 1982 to 1984 the attacker let his career end with the Jets de Sherbrooke in the AHL. In total, he completed 173 NHL, 88 AHL and 336 CHL games.

As a trainer

Already in his last AHL season 1982/83 Bowness acted parallel as player and coach of the Jets de Sherbrooke. After a year break, he moved to the coaching staff of their NHL cooperation partner, the Winnipeg Jets, and worked there for three years as an assistant coach. In 1987 he took over the Jets' new AHL farm team from his hometown, the Moncton Hawks , before he came to his first NHL head coaching position in the middle of the 1989/90 season when he replaced Dan Maloney at the Winnipeg Jets and the team until the end of the season supervised. Then the Canadian returned to the AHL and coached the Maine Mariners for two seasons before he rose again to the NHL for the 1991/92 season and was head coach of the Boston Bruins . With the Bruins he reached the conference finals in the playoffs , but was still replaced by Brian Sutter after that year .

With his commitment in Boston, however, Bowness had made a name for himself as a coach, so that the newly founded Ottawa Senators made him the first coach in their NHL history. In terms of sport, however , the new franchise was hardly competitive, so the team with him behind the gang won only 39 of 235 games in the next slightly more than three years; in November 1995 he was released and replaced by Dave Allison . A little later, however, Bowness took over the position of assistant coach with the New York Islanders , which he then supervised from January 1997 to almost the end of the 1998/99 season as head coach .

After a year break, Bowness was introduced to the 1999/00 season as the new assistant coach at the Phoenix Coyotes , where he subsequently worked for seven years, including 20 games as interim head coach in the 2003/04 season. In 2006 the Canadian left the team and joined the Vancouver Canucks in the same position . He also worked in Vancouver for seven years, where he reached the Stanley Cup final with the team under the direction of Alain Vigneault in 2011 . In May 2013, the entire coaching staff was laid off, with Bowness only a month later found a new employer in the Tampa Bay Lightning ; also as an assistant coach.

After almost 30 years of almost uninterrupted coaching, Bowness set a new record in February 2017 with his 2,165 NHL game as head or assistant coach. He overtook Scotty Bowman , who, however, had played significantly more games as head coach.

After the 2017/18 season, Bowness did not receive a senior contract in Tampa and was introduced to the Dallas Stars in June 2018 in the same position as Jim Montgomery's assistant . There he took over Montgomery's role as head coach on an interim basis in December 2019 after he was fired for unprofessional behavior.

Career statistics

Player statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
1972/73	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		30th	2	7th	9		2		14th	1	4th	5		6th
1973/74	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		34	16	29	45		64		-	-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal	LHJMQ		33	9	17th	26th		31		9	4th	4th	8th		4th
1974/75	Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal	LHJMQ		71	24	71	95		132		8th	5	3	8th		29
1975/76	Tulsa Oilers	CHL		64	24	38	63		160		9	4th	3	7th		12
1975/76	Nova Scotia Voyageurs	AHL		2	0	1	1		0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	Atlanta Flames	NHL		5	0	0	0	-5	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Tulsa Oilers	CHL		39	15th	15th	30th		72		-	-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Atlanta Flames	NHL		28	0	4th	4th	–9	29		-	-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		61	8th	11	19th	-8th	76		4th	0	0	0	± 0	2
1978/79	Salt Lake Golden Eagles	CHL		48	25th	28	53		92		10	5	4th	9		27
1978/79	St. Louis Blues	NHL		24	1	3	4th	-17	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Salt Lake Golden Eagles	CHL		71	25th	46	71		135		13	5	9	14th		39
1979/80	St. Louis Blues	NHL		10	1	2	3	-2	11		-	-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Tulsa Oilers	CHL		35	12	20th	32		82		-	-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		45	8th	17th	25th	-35	45		-	-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Tulsa Oilers	CHL		79	34	53	87		201		3	0	2	2		2
1981/82	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	-2	0
1982/83	Jets de Sherbrooke	AHL		65	17th	31	48		117		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Jets de Sherbrooke	AHL		21st	9	11	20th		44		-	-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				168	51	124	175		229		31	10	11	21st		39
CHL total				336	136	200	336		742		43	14th	19th	33		100
AHL total				88	26th	43	69		161		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				173	18th	37	55	-76	191		5	0	0	0	-2	2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

NHL coaching statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U / OTL	Pt	space		Sp	S.	N	result
1988/89	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		28	8th	17th	3	19th	5. ( Smythe )		-	-	-	not qualified
1991/92	Boston Bruins	NHL		80	36	32	12	84	2. ( Adams )		15th	8th	7th	Conference finals
1992/93	Ottawa Senators	NHL		84	10	70	4th	24	6. (Adams)		-	-	-	not qualified
1993/94	Ottawa Senators	NHL		84	14th	61	9	37	7. ( Northeast )		-	-	-	not qualified
1994/95	Ottawa Senators	NHL		48	9	34	5	23	7. (Northeast)		-	-	-	not qualified
1995/96	Ottawa Senators	NHL		19th	6th	13	0	12	-		-	-	-	dismiss
1996/97	New York Islanders	NHL		37	16	18th	3	35	7. ( Atlantic )		-	-	-	not qualified
1997/98	New York Islanders	NHL		63	22nd	32	9	53	-		-	-	-	dismiss
2003/04	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		20th	2	12	6th	10	5. ( Pacific )		-	-	-	not qualified
NHL overall				463	123	289	51	297	0 division title		15th	8th	7th	0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

Personal

Bowness is married and has three children. His father Bob Bowness (1956-1958 for the Indianapolis Chiefs ) and his son Ryan Bowness (2008/09 for the Ontario Reign ) were also professional ice hockey players.

Web links

• Rick Bowness in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Rick Bowness at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Rick Bowness at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bryan Burns: Bowness to break Bowman's record for games coached. nhl.com, February 10, 2017, accessed on August 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Willy Palov: Nova Scotia's Rick Bowness proud of NHL coaching milestone. thechronicleherald.ca, February 18, 2015, accessed on August 17, 2017 .