BY: Mark Malinowski
2010-02-14 09:20:00
Status: NHL coach won nine Stanley Cups with Montreal, Pittsburgh and Detroit. Currently the senior advisor of hockey operations for Chicago. Holds record for most coaching wins in NHL history with 1,244 regular season and 223 in playoffs; won Jack Adams Award in 1977 and '96; is the only coach in history of NHL, NFL, NBA and MLB to win championships with three teams (‘73, '76, '77, ’78, '79 with Montreal; '92 with Pittsburgh; '97, '98, '02 with Detroit. Was also a part of Pittsburgh's '91 Cup team as director of player development and Detroit's '08 Cup team as a consultant.

DOB: Sept. 18, 1933 In: Montreal

First Hockey Memory: "Well, I was a young kid growing up in Montreal and for whatever reason I was a Boston Bruins fan because of the radio. And my favorite player – I was only seven – was a guy named Bill Cowley and he wore No. 10. And I guess Boston had a good team; they won the Cup in '38-39 and '40-41…I just listened to the games on the radio and I became a Boston fan because of Bill Cowley."

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