Wednesday, February 11, 2009

How do the NHL coaches compare?

I thought with the recent discussion regarding the coaching ability of Ron Wilson on talk radio, I thought it would be interesting to compare the coaching records of NHL coaches. Suprisingly Ron Wilson is just in the middle of the pack. Though when you examine the list closely you will find that the chart is skewed by coaches with limited experience. So rookie coaches like Todd McLellan looks good but he has only coached 50 games in the NHL. Meanwhile John Anderson and Scott Gordon have terrible records.


R
Coach Yrs GC
W L T OL Pts
P%


1 Todd McLellan 1 50 36 7 0 7 79 0.790


2 B.Boudreau 2 115 71 33 0 11 153 0.665


3 Mike Babcock 6 463 266 129 19 49 600 0.648


4 Dave Tippett 6 462 261 140 28 33 583 0.631


5 Brent Sutter 2 136 80 46 0 10 170 0.625


6 Randy Carlyle 4 302 165 98 0 39 369 0.611


7 Claude Julien 6 374 199 123 10 42 450 0.602


8 Tony Granato 3 186 97 60 17 12 223 0.599


9 J.Quenneville 12 886 466 295 77 48 1057 0.597


10 Ken Hitchcock 13 954 495 315 88 56 1134 0.594


11 G.Carbonneau 3 218 118 78 0 22 258 0.592


12 Lindy Ruff 11 874 425 322 78 49 977 0.559


13 Peter DeBoer 1 52 25 19 0 8 58 0.558


14 J.Lemaire 15 1101 527 403 124 47 1225 0.556


15 Terry Murray 12 788 383 298 89 18 873 0.554


16 Mike Keenan 20 1357 657 519 147 34 1495 0.551


17 Tom Renney 7 421 201 167 9 44 455 0.540


18 C.MacTavish 8 627 289 240 47 51 676 0.539


19 Ron Wilson 15 1144 538 450 101 55 1232 0.538


20 M.Therrien 7 460 211 181 23 45 490 0.533


21 Andy Murray 9 668 297 254 58 59 711 0.532


22 A.Vigneault 7 482 221 197 35 29 506 0.525


23 John Stevens 3 208 91 86 0 31 213 0.512


24 Barry Trotz 10 791 349 333 60 49 807 0.510


25 Cory Clouston 1 3 1 1 0 1 3 0.500


26 Paul Maurice 12 867 359 368 99 41 858 0.495


27 W.Gretzky 4 300 131 147 0 22 284 0.473


28 Rick Tocchet 1 37 13 17 0 7 33 0.446


29 J.Anderson 1 54 18 31 0 5 41 0.380


30 Scott Gordon 1 52 16 31 0 5 37 0.356




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