Just some quick food for thought based on some numbers I came across this morning.
Robert Vollman, who writes at ESPN, Hockey Prospectus, and his own site, Hockey Abstract, recently did some number crunching to see how effective NHL coaches have been in their tenures. He writes,
A good coach will make a bad team competitive, and a good team great. While it is difficult to rate coaches, a good start is to measure how well their team did relative to how well they did the previous season, once regressed to the norm by 35%. With sufficient data we can start to see which of history's coaches might have been the most effective.
Vollman's doing some different stuff with the sats; e.g., "It's also interesting to see how much better non-NHLers did as coaches relative to those who had played in the NHL, or how among those who played in the NHL it doesn't seem to make a difference if they made the Hall of Fame, but does seem to matter what position they played (defensemen make better coaches)," but it provides some interesting data regarding how coaches impacted their teams.
The (long) table below shows the coaches sorted by cumulative xPTS, which are the points awarded for performance relative to the prior season (I filtered out coaches with less than 82 games total). The names at the top won't surprise, and obviously coaches who hung around for a long time, and coached during the 82 game era are going to come out far ahead. I decided to print the whole enormous thing, as it's interesting to see coaches who had similar careers, and last place is a nice bonus. (I wish the table was sortable, but I couldn't figure how some SBNation posts do that.)
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GP | W | L | T | OL | PTS | PTS% | xPTS | xPTS/GP | |
Scotty Bowman | 2141 | 1244 | 573 | 314 | 10 | 2812 | .657 | 299.6 | .140 |
Ken Hitchcock* | 1116 | 581 | 366 | 88 | 81 | 1331 | .596 | 116.6 | .105 |
Jacques Lemaire | 1262 | 617 | 458 | 124 | 63 | 1421 | .563 | 111.6 | .088 |
Al Arbour | 1607 | 782 | 577 | 248 | 0 | 1812 | .564 | 109.0 | .068 |
Joel Quenneville* | 1169 | 630 | 382 | 77 | 80 | 1417 | .606 | 104.5 | .089 |
Glen Sather | 932 | 497 | 307 | 121 | 7 | 1122 | .602 | 103.7 | .111 |
Dick Irvin | 1449 | 692 | 527 | 230 | 0 | 1614 | .557 | 96.7 | .067 |
Jacques Martin | 1294 | 613 | 481 | 119 | 81 | 1426 | .551 | 91.0 | .070 |
Marc Crawford | 1151 | 549 | 421 | 103 | 78 | 1279 | .556 | 86.1 | .075 |
Toe Blake | 914 | 500 | 255 | 159 | 0 | 1159 | .634 | 83.5 | .091 |
Ron Wilson | 1401 | 648 | 561 | 101 | 91 | 1488 | .531 | 79.8 | .057 |
Fred Shero | 734 | 390 | 225 | 119 | 0 | 899 | .612 | 78.3 | .107 |
Peter Laviolette* | 714 | 368 | 261 | 25 | 60 | 821 | .575 | 76.4 | .107 |
Mike Keenan | 1386 | 672 | 531 | 147 | 36 | 1527 | .551 | 76.4 | .055 |
Terry Murray | 1012 | 499 | 383 | 89 | 41 | 1128 | .557 | 75.7 | .075 |
Darryl Sutter* | 913 | 435 | 335 | 101 | 42 | 1013 | .555 | 73.0 | .080 |
Claude Julien* | 652 | 350 | 218 | 10 | 74 | 784 | .601 | 72.2 | .111 |
Bryan Murray | 1239 | 620 | 465 | 131 | 23 | 1394 | .563 | 72.0 | .058 |
Mike Babcock* | 743 | 423 | 218 | 19 | 83 | 948 | .638 | 71.0 | .096 |
Barry Trotz* | 1071 | 504 | 425 | 60 | 82 | 1150 | .537 | 68.3 | .064 |
Pat Burns | 1019 | 501 | 353 | 151 | 14 | 1167 | .573 | 65.3 | .064 |
Dave Tippett* | 743 | 407 | 238 | 28 | 70 | 912 | .614 | 63.8 | .086 |
Pat Quinn | 1400 | 684 | 528 | 154 | 34 | 1556 | .556 | 63.3 | .045 |
Bruce Boudreau* | 391 | 231 | 112 | 0 | 48 | 510 | .652 | 62.6 | .160 |
Emile Francis | 778 | 388 | 273 | 117 | 0 | 893 | .574 | 58.2 | .075 |
Bob Hartley* | 654 | 330 | 228 | 61 | 35 | 756 | .578 | 56.8 | .087 |
Roger Neilson | 1000 | 460 | 378 | 159 | 3 | 1082 | .541 | 54.1 | .054 |
Andy Murray | 738 | 333 | 278 | 58 | 69 | 793 | .537 | 54.0 | .073 |
Tommy Ivan | 573 | 288 | 174 | 111 | 0 | 687 | .599 | 53.8 | .094 |
Alain Vigneault* | 763 | 398 | 275 | 35 | 55 | 886 | .581 | 52.8 | .069 |
Punch Imlach | 889 | 402 | 337 | 150 | 0 | 954 | .537 | 52.3 | .059 |
Bob Pulford | 829 | 363 | 330 | 136 | 0 | 862 | .520 | 47.5 | .057 |
Lindy Ruff | 1153 | 567 | 425 | 78 | 83 | 1295 | .562 | 46.8 | .041 |
Robbie Ftorek | 443 | 229 | 152 | 44 | 18 | 520 | .587 | 44.4 | .100 |
Lester Patrick | 604 | 281 | 216 | 107 | 0 | 669 | .554 | 43.7 | .072 |
Cecil Hart | 394 | 196 | 125 | 73 | 0 | 465 | .590 | 42.3 | .107 |
Floyd Smith | 309 | 173 | 95 | 41 | 0 | 387 | .626 | 41.2 | .133 |
Harry Sinden | 327 | 153 | 116 | 58 | 0 | 364 | .557 | 41.1 | .126 |
Dan Bylsma* | 276 | 168 | 83 | 0 | 25 | 361 | .654 | 41.0 | .149 |
Bob Johnson | 480 | 234 | 188 | 58 | 0 | 526 | .548 | 39.5 | .082 |
Michel Therrien* | 466 | 215 | 183 | 23 | 45 | 498 | .534 | 38.9 | .084 |
Tom Johnson | 208 | 142 | 43 | 23 | 0 | 307 | .738 | 37.9 | .182 |
Billy Reay | 1102 | 542 | 385 | 175 | 0 | 1259 | .571 | 36.9 | .033 |
Bob Berry | 860 | 384 | 355 | 121 | 0 | 889 | .517 | 36.9 | .043 |
Randy Carlyle* | 539 | 281 | 194 | 0 | 64 | 626 | .581 | 35.3 | .066 |
John Tortorella* | 811 | 386 | 325 | 37 | 63 | 872 | .538 | 35.3 | .044 |
Todd McLellan* | 333 | 200 | 92 | 0 | 41 | 441 | .662 | 32.7 | .098 |
Kevin Constantine | 377 | 161 | 150 | 61 | 5 | 388 | .515 | 32.4 | .086 |
Terry Crisp | 631 | 286 | 267 | 78 | 0 | 650 | .515 | 30.8 | .049 |
Don Cherry | 480 | 250 | 153 | 77 | 0 | 577 | .601 | 29.5 | .061 |
Red Berenson | 204 | 100 | 72 | 32 | 0 | 232 | .569 | 27.6 | .136 |
Glen Sonmor | 421 | 177 | 161 | 83 | 0 | 437 | .519 | 24.3 | .058 |
Claude Ruel | 305 | 172 | 82 | 51 | 0 | 395 | .648 | 24.2 | .079 |
Dave King | 420 | 173 | 182 | 52 | 13 | 411 | .489 | 24.1 | .057 |
Rudy Pilous | 387 | 162 | 151 | 74 | 0 | 398 | .514 | 23.5 | .061 |
Fred Creighton | 421 | 196 | 156 | 69 | 0 | 461 | .548 | 21.3 | .051 |
Ted Sator | 306 | 137 | 137 | 32 | 0 | 306 | .500 | 19.2 | .063 |
Art Ross | 758 | 368 | 300 | 90 | 0 | 826 | .545 | 18.3 | .024 |
Brent Sutter | 410 | 215 | 146 | 0 | 49 | 479 | .584 | 18.3 | .045 |
Brian Sutter | 1028 | 451 | 417 | 140 | 20 | 1062 | .517 | 18.0 | .018 |
Guy Carbonneau | 230 | 124 | 83 | 0 | 23 | 271 | .589 | 17.1 | .075 |
Dit Clapper | 230 | 102 | 88 | 40 | 0 | 244 | .530 | 17.1 | .074 |
Paul MacLean* | 87 | 44 | 32 | 0 | 11 | 99 | .569 | 16.8 | .193 |
Hap Day | 546 | 259 | 206 | 81 | 0 | 599 | .549 | 16.7 | .031 |
Bernie Geoffrion | 281 | 114 | 119 | 48 | 0 | 276 | .491 | 16.5 | .059 |
Tommy Gorman | 327 | 133 | 132 | 62 | 0 | 328 | .502 | 16.5 | .050 |
Gerry Cheevers | 376 | 204 | 126 | 46 | 0 | 454 | .604 | 16.4 | .044 |
Wren Blair | 147 | 48 | 65 | 34 | 0 | 130 | .442 | 16.2 | .110 |
Dave Lewis | 251 | 135 | 83 | 21 | 12 | 303 | .604 | 16.1 | .064 |
Tom Renney | 592 | 260 | 255 | 9 | 68 | 597 | .504 | 16.0 | .027 |
Red Kelly | 742 | 278 | 330 | 134 | 0 | 690 | .465 | 15.9 | .021 |
Jack Adams | 964 | 413 | 390 | 161 | 0 | 987 | .512 | 15.7 | .016 |
Craig MacTavish | 656 | 301 | 252 | 47 | 56 | 705 | .537 | 15.2 | .023 |
Kevin Dineen* | 87 | 39 | 30 | 0 | 18 | 96 | .552 | 15.0 | .173 |
Jean Perron | 287 | 142 | 110 | 35 | 0 | 319 | .556 | 14.8 | .051 |
Denis Savard | 147 | 65 | 66 | 0 | 16 | 146 | .497 | 14.2 | .096 |
Joe Sacco* | 250 | 116 | 111 | 0 | 23 | 255 | .510 | 13.9 | .056 |
Guy Boucher* | 169 | 88 | 62 | 0 | 19 | 195 | .577 | 13.6 | .080 |
Terry O'Reilly | 227 | 115 | 86 | 26 | 0 | 256 | .564 | 13.4 | .059 |
Peter DeBoer* | 332 | 154 | 135 | 0 | 43 | 351 | .529 | 13.2 | .040 |
Marc Boileau | 151 | 66 | 61 | 24 | 0 | 156 | .517 | 11.7 | .077 |
Bill Barber | 136 | 73 | 40 | 17 | 6 | 169 | .621 | 11.5 | .084 |
Pete Green | 150 | 94 | 52 | 4 | 0 | 192 | .640 | 11.5 | .076 |
Eddie Gerard | 421 | 174 | 186 | 61 | 0 | 409 | .486 | 10.1 | .024 |
Frank Patrick | 96 | 48 | 36 | 12 | 0 | 108 | .563 | 10.1 | .105 |
Keith Allen | 150 | 51 | 67 | 32 | 0 | 134 | .447 | 9.2 | .062 |
Don Blackburn | 140 | 42 | 63 | 35 | 0 | 119 | .425 | 9.0 | .064 |
Cooney Weiland | 96 | 58 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 134 | .698 | 8.7 | .091 |
Kevin Lowe | 82 | 32 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 88 | .537 | 8.6 | .105 |
Mario Tremblay | 159 | 71 | 63 | 25 | 0 | 167 | .525 | 8.0 | .050 |
Jimmy Skinner | 247 | 123 | 78 | 46 | 0 | 292 | .591 | 7.0 | .028 |
Cy Denneny | 92 | 37 | 40 | 15 | 0 | 89 | .484 | 6.6 | .072 |
Larry Regan | 88 | 27 | 47 | 14 | 0 | 68 | .386 | 6.6 | .075 |
Phil Maloney | 232 | 95 | 105 | 32 | 0 | 222 | .478 | 6.2 | .027 |
Jack Gordon | 289 | 116 | 123 | 50 | 0 | 282 | .488 | 6.1 | .021 |
Ted Nolan | 327 | 147 | 140 | 19 | 21 | 334 | .511 | 5.7 | .017 |
Ivan Hlinka | 86 | 42 | 32 | 9 | 3 | 96 | .558 | 5.7 | .066 |
Claude Noel* | 111 | 50 | 44 | 0 | 17 | 117 | .527 | 5.3 | .048 |
Bill Dineen | 140 | 60 | 60 | 20 | 0 | 140 | .500 | 5.2 | .037 |
Joe Crozier | 232 | 90 | 102 | 40 | 0 | 220 | .474 | 5.2 | .022 |
Bobby Kromm | 231 | 79 | 111 | 41 | 0 | 199 | .431 | 5.0 | .022 |
John Cunniff | 146 | 62 | 65 | 19 | 0 | 143 | .490 | 5.0 | .034 |
Joe Primeau | 210 | 97 | 71 | 42 | 0 | 236 | .562 | 4.6 | .022 |
John Stevens | 267 | 122 | 111 | 0 | 34 | 278 | .521 | 4.4 | .017 |
Jack Evans | 614 | 237 | 303 | 74 | 0 | 548 | .446 | 4.3 | .007 |
Bep Guidolin | 229 | 98 | 107 | 24 | 0 | 220 | .480 | 4.1 | .018 |
Jean-Guy Talbot | 200 | 82 | 90 | 28 | 0 | 192 | .480 | 4.1 | .020 |
Conn Smythe | 134 | 57 | 57 | 20 | 0 | 134 | .500 | 4.0 | .030 |
Garry Young | 110 | 43 | 48 | 19 | 0 | 105 | .477 | 3.9 | .036 |
Davis Payne | 137 | 67 | 55 | 0 | 15 | 149 | .544 | 3.0 | .022 |
John Anderson | 164 | 70 | 75 | 0 | 19 | 159 | .485 | 2.8 | .017 |
Al Sims | 82 | 27 | 47 | 8 | 0 | 62 | .378 | 2.8 | .034 |
Marcel Pronovost | 104 | 52 | 29 | 23 | 0 | 127 | .611 | 2.5 | .024 |
Jacques Demers | 1007 | 409 | 468 | 130 | 0 | 948 | .471 | 2.2 | .002 |
Ron Low | 505 | 208 | 243 | 49 | 5 | 470 | .465 | 1.5 | .003 |
Jack Capuano* | 152 | 62 | 68 | 0 | 22 | 146 | .480 | 1.5 | .010 |
Al MacNeil | 306 | 138 | 113 | 55 | 0 | 331 | .541 | 1.5 | .005 |
Steve Stirling | 124 | 56 | 51 | 11 | 6 | 129 | .520 | 1.4 | .011 |
Don Hay | 150 | 61 | 65 | 20 | 4 | 146 | .487 | 1.3 | .009 |
Rick Dudley | 228 | 98 | 87 | 40 | 3 | 239 | .524 | 0.9 | .004 |
Gene Ubriaco | 106 | 50 | 47 | 9 | 0 | 109 | .514 | 0.9 | .008 |
Wayne Gretzky | 328 | 143 | 161 | 0 | 24 | 310 | .473 | 0.9 | .003 |
Orval Tessier | 213 | 99 | 93 | 21 | 0 | 219 | .514 | 0.8 | .004 |
Johnny Wilson | 517 | 187 | 241 | 89 | 0 | 463 | .448 | 0.6 | .001 |
Jim Playfair | 82 | 43 | 29 | 0 | 10 | 96 | .585 | 0.3 | .004 |
Cory Clouston | 198 | 95 | 83 | 0 | 20 | 210 | .530 | 0.3 | .002 |
Rick Tocchet | 148 | 53 | 69 | 0 | 26 | 132 | .446 | 0.2 | .001 |
Doug Carpenter | 381 | 139 | 213 | 29 | 0 | 307 | .403 | 0.1 | .000 |
Danny Belisle | 96 | 28 | 51 | 17 | 0 | 73 | .380 | 0.0 | .000 |
Lynn Patrick | 443 | 165 | 196 | 82 | 0 | 412 | .465 | 0.0 | .000 |
Doug MacLean | 266 | 107 | 114 | 41 | 4 | 259 | .487 | -0.4 | -.002 |
Tom Webster | 258 | 120 | 103 | 35 | 0 | 275 | .533 | -0.9 | -.004 |
Bobby Francis | 390 | 165 | 144 | 60 | 21 | 411 | .527 | -1.1 | -.003 |
Gerard Gallant | 142 | 56 | 76 | 4 | 6 | 122 | .430 | -1.4 | -.010 |
Tom Watt | 490 | 176 | 252 | 62 | 0 | 414 | .422 | -1.5 | -.003 |
Glen Gulutzan* | 87 | 44 | 37 | 0 | 6 | 94 | .540 | -1.7 | -.020 |
Bob McCammon | 512 | 221 | 224 | 67 | 0 | 509 | .497 | -2.0 | -.004 |
Mike Milbury | 351 | 146 | 160 | 45 | 0 | 337 | .480 | -2.7 | -.008 |
Jim Schoenfeld | 580 | 256 | 246 | 78 | 0 | 590 | .509 | -3.0 | -.005 |
Vic Stasiuk | 307 | 88 | 153 | 66 | 0 | 242 | .394 | -3.1 | -.010 |
Mike Sullivan | 164 | 70 | 56 | 15 | 23 | 178 | .543 | -3.6 | -.022 |
Mike Yeo* | 87 | 37 | 38 | 0 | 12 | 86 | .494 | -3.6 | -.041 |
Todd Richards* | 210 | 96 | 95 | 0 | 19 | 211 | .502 | -3.9 | -.018 |
Paul Thompson | 272 | 104 | 127 | 41 | 0 | 249 | .458 | -4.0 | -.015 |
Bruce Cassidy | 110 | 47 | 47 | 9 | 7 | 110 | .500 | -4.2 | -.038 |
Trent Yawney | 103 | 33 | 55 | 0 | 15 | 81 | .393 | -4.2 | -.041 |
Tony Granato | 215 | 104 | 78 | 17 | 16 | 241 | .560 | -4.3 | -.020 |
Steve Ludzik | 121 | 31 | 67 | 14 | 9 | 85 | .351 | -4.6 | -.038 |
Terry Simpson | 368 | 159 | 168 | 41 | 0 | 359 | .488 | -4.8 | -.013 |
Charlie Conacher | 162 | 56 | 84 | 22 | 0 | 134 | .414 | -5.1 | -.031 |
Bob Gainey | 472 | 194 | 211 | 60 | 7 | 455 | .482 | -6.5 | -.014 |
David Gill | 132 | 64 | 41 | 27 | 0 | 155 | .587 | -6.6 | -.050 |
John Muckler | 648 | 276 | 285 | 84 | 3 | 639 | .493 | -6.9 | -.011 |
Greg Gilbert | 121 | 42 | 56 | 17 | 6 | 107 | .442 | -7.0 | -.058 |
Barry Long | 205 | 87 | 93 | 25 | 0 | 199 | .485 | -7.2 | -.035 |
Pierre Page | 636 | 253 | 301 | 82 | 0 | 588 | .462 | -7.2 | -.011 |
Ken Schinkel | 203 | 83 | 92 | 28 | 0 | 194 | .478 | -7.3 | -.036 |
Doug Risebrough | 144 | 71 | 56 | 17 | 0 | 159 | .552 | -7.8 | -.054 |
Don Waddell | 86 | 38 | 39 | 1 | 8 | 85 | .494 | -7.8 | -.091 |
Rick Ley | 284 | 116 | 121 | 47 | 0 | 279 | .491 | -8.0 | -.028 |
Dave Chambers | 98 | 19 | 64 | 15 | 0 | 53 | .270 | -8.2 | -.083 |
Bill Mahoney | 93 | 42 | 39 | 12 | 0 | 96 | .516 | -8.2 | -.089 |
Alpo Suhonen | 82 | 29 | 40 | 8 | 5 | 71 | .433 | -8.4 | -.102 |
Odie Cleghorn | 168 | 62 | 86 | 20 | 0 | 144 | .429 | -8.6 | -.051 |
Nick Polano | 240 | 79 | 127 | 34 | 0 | 192 | .400 | -9.0 | -.038 |
Leo Dandurand | 163 | 78 | 76 | 9 | 0 | 165 | .506 | -9.3 | -.057 |
Gary Green | 157 | 50 | 78 | 29 | 0 | 129 | .411 | -9.7 | -.061 |
Colin Campbell | 269 | 118 | 108 | 43 | 0 | 279 | .519 | -10.2 | -.038 |
Ron Lapointe | 89 | 33 | 50 | 6 | 0 | 72 | .404 | -10.4 | -.117 |
King Clancy | 228 | 86 | 92 | 50 | 0 | 222 | .487 | -10.5 | -.046 |
Herb Brooks | 506 | 219 | 219 | 66 | 2 | 506 | .500 | -10.5 | -.021 |
Bob Murdoch | 240 | 93 | 116 | 31 | 0 | 217 | .452 | -10.7 | -.044 |
Michel Bergeron | 792 | 338 | 350 | 104 | 0 | 780 | .492 | -10.9 | -.014 |
John Ferguson | 135 | 50 | 65 | 20 | 0 | 120 | .444 | -11.0 | -.082 |
Clem Loughlin | 144 | 61 | 63 | 20 | 0 | 142 | .493 | -11.1 | -.077 |
Neil Colville | 93 | 26 | 41 | 26 | 0 | 78 | .419 | -11.1 | -.120 |
Art Chapman | 96 | 24 | 58 | 14 | 0 | 62 | .323 | -11.3 | -.117 |
Pat Kelly | 101 | 22 | 54 | 25 | 0 | 69 | .342 | -11.5 | -.114 |
Keith Magnuson | 132 | 49 | 57 | 26 | 0 | 124 | .470 | -11.7 | -.089 |
Lorne Henning | 223 | 87 | 111 | 25 | 0 | 199 | .446 | -12.2 | -.055 |
Jimmy Roberts | 134 | 50 | 60 | 24 | 0 | 124 | .463 | -12.3 | -.091 |
Wayne Maxner | 129 | 34 | 68 | 27 | 0 | 95 | .368 | -12.3 | -.095 |
Ron Stewart | 119 | 46 | 54 | 19 | 0 | 111 | .466 | -12.5 | -.105 |
Scott Arniel | 123 | 45 | 60 | 0 | 18 | 108 | .439 | -12.7 | -.103 |
Charlie Burns | 86 | 22 | 50 | 14 | 0 | 58 | .337 | -13.3 | -.155 |
Alf Pike | 123 | 36 | 66 | 21 | 0 | 93 | .378 | -13.4 | -.109 |
Paul Maurice | 1084 | 460 | 457 | 99 | 68 | 1087 | .501 | -13.7 | -.013 |
Bill Cook | 117 | 34 | 59 | 24 | 0 | 92 | .393 | -13.9 | -.119 |
Scott Gordon | 181 | 64 | 94 | 0 | 23 | 151 | .417 | -14.0 | -.077 |
Red Dutton | 192 | 66 | 97 | 29 | 0 | 161 | .419 | -14.1 | -.073 |
Muzz Patrick | 136 | 43 | 66 | 27 | 0 | 113 | .415 | -14.1 | -.104 |
Craig Hartsburg | 491 | 201 | 208 | 69 | 13 | 484 | .493 | -14.1 | -.029 |
Dan Maloney | 372 | 136 | 193 | 43 | 0 | 315 | .423 | -14.1 | -.038 |
Phil Watson | 379 | 135 | 179 | 65 | 0 | 335 | .442 | -14.3 | -.038 |
John Paddock | 345 | 142 | 160 | 37 | 6 | 327 | .474 | -14.4 | -.042 |
Ted Harris | 179 | 48 | 104 | 27 | 0 | 123 | .344 | -14.5 | -.081 |
Larry Robinson | 501 | 209 | 217 | 64 | 11 | 493 | .492 | -14.7 | -.029 |
Joe Simpson | 144 | 42 | 72 | 30 | 0 | 114 | .396 | -15.1 | -.105 |
Orland Kurtenbach | 125 | 36 | 62 | 27 | 0 | 99 | .396 | -15.3 | -.123 |
Ed Olczyk | 113 | 31 | 64 | 8 | 10 | 80 | .354 | -16.1 | -.142 |
Marshall Johnston | 125 | 28 | 77 | 20 | 0 | 76 | .304 | -16.5 | -.132 |
Butch Goring | 240 | 83 | 126 | 27 | 4 | 197 | .410 | -17.0 | -.071 |
John Brophy | 193 | 64 | 111 | 18 | 0 | 146 | .378 | -18.0 | -.093 |
Bill McCreary | 97 | 23 | 59 | 15 | 0 | 61 | .314 | -18.1 | -.186 |
Harry Neale | 442 | 150 | 212 | 80 | 0 | 380 | .430 | -18.4 | -.042 |
Newsy Lalonde | 339 | 144 | 167 | 28 | 0 | 316 | .466 | -18.6 | -.055 |
Barclay Plager | 178 | 49 | 96 | 33 | 0 | 131 | .368 | -18.6 | -.105 |
Craig Ramsay | 131 | 50 | 63 | 6 | 12 | 118 | .450 | -18.8 | -.143 |
John McLellan | 310 | 126 | 139 | 45 | 0 | 297 | .479 | -19.4 | -.063 |
Larry Pleau | 224 | 81 | 117 | 26 | 0 | 188 | .420 | -19.7 | -.088 |
George Boucher | 165 | 50 | 86 | 29 | 0 | 129 | .391 | -19.8 | -.120 |
Hal Laycoe | 180 | 49 | 114 | 17 | 0 | 115 | .319 | -21.1 | -.117 |
Eddie Johnston | 596 | 266 | 251 | 79 | 0 | 611 | .513 | -21.4 | -.036 |
Don Perry | 168 | 52 | 85 | 31 | 0 | 135 | .402 | -22.1 | -.132 |
Barry Melrose | 225 | 84 | 108 | 29 | 4 | 201 | .447 | -22.2 | -.099 |
Leo Boivin | 97 | 28 | 53 | 16 | 0 | 72 | .371 | -23.3 | -.240 |
Mike Murphy | 229 | 80 | 124 | 25 | 0 | 185 | .404 | -23.4 | -.102 |
Mike Nykoluk | 280 | 89 | 144 | 47 | 0 | 225 | .402 | -24.1 | -.086 |
Glen Hanlon | 239 | 78 | 122 | 9 | 30 | 195 | .408 | -24.2 | -.101 |
Tom McVie | 462 | 126 | 263 | 73 | 0 | 325 | .352 | -24.9 | -.054 |
Sid Abel | 964 | 382 | 427 | 155 | 0 | 919 | .477 | -25.1 | -.026 |
Rick Kehoe | 160 | 55 | 81 | 14 | 10 | 134 | .419 | -26.2 | -.164 |
Billy MacMillan | 180 | 41 | 112 | 27 | 0 | 109 | .303 | -26.8 | -.149 |
Steve Kasper | 164 | 66 | 78 | 20 | 0 | 152 | .463 | -27.8 | -.170 |
Craig Patrick | 169 | 66 | 81 | 22 | 0 | 154 | .456 | -27.9 | -.165 |
Johnny Gottselig | 187 | 62 | 105 | 20 | 0 | 144 | .385 | -28.2 | -.151 |
Curt Fraser | 279 | 64 | 169 | 31 | 15 | 174 | .312 | -28.2 | -.101 |
Ebbie Goodfellow | 140 | 30 | 91 | 19 | 0 | 79 | .282 | -28.5 | -.204 |
Alex Delvecchio | 245 | 82 | 131 | 32 | 0 | 196 | .400 | -30.7 | -.125 |
Red Sullivan | 364 | 107 | 198 | 59 | 0 | 273 | .375 | -30.9 | -.085 |
Parker MacDonald | 103 | 33 | 54 | 16 | 0 | 82 | .398 | -31.0 | -.301 |
Lou Angotti | 112 | 22 | 78 | 12 | 0 | 56 | .250 | -31.8 | -.284 |
Paul Holmgren | 425 | 161 | 219 | 45 | 0 | 367 | .432 | -32.3 | -.076 |
Ted Green | 188 | 65 | 102 | 21 | 0 | 151 | .402 | -33.9 | -.180 |
Mike Kitchen | 131 | 38 | 70 | 4 | 19 | 99 | .378 | -35.1 | -.268 |
Frank Boucher | 527 | 181 | 263 | 83 | 0 | 445 | .422 | -35.3 | -.067 |
George Kingston | 164 | 28 | 129 | 7 | 0 | 63 | .192 | -46.5 | -.283 |
Milt Schmidt | 770 | 250 | 394 | 126 | 0 | 626 | .406 | -58.9 | -.076 |
Fred Glover | 424 | 114 | 249 | 61 | 0 | 289 | .341 | -64.9 | -.153 |
Rick Bowness | 463 | 123 | 289 | 48 | 3 | 297 | .321 | -72.7 | -.157 |
Below are some of the potential coaching options with NHL experience available to the Islanders if they decide a change is needed. These are sorted by xPTS per games coached. I was surprised by some of the positioning (looking at you Marc Crawford).
GP | W | L | T | OL | PTS | PTS% | xPTS | xPTS/GP | |
Kevin Constantine | 377 | 161 | 150 | 61 | 5 | 388 | .515 | 32.4 | .086 |
Terry Murray | 1012 | 499 | 383 | 89 | 41 | 1128 | .557 | 75.7 | .075 |
Marc Crawford | 1151 | 549 | 421 | 103 | 78 | 1279 | .556 | 86.1 | .075 |
Jacques Martin | 1294 | 613 | 481 | 119 | 81 | 1426 | .551 | 91.0 | .070 |
Brent Sutter | 410 | 215 | 146 | 0 | 49 | 479 | .584 | 18.3 | .045 |
Tom Renney | 592 | 260 | 255 | 9 | 68 | 597 | .504 | 16.0 | .027 |
Craig MacTavish | 656 | 301 | 252 | 47 | 56 | 705 | .537 | 15.2 | .023 |
Davis Payne | 137 | 67 | 55 | 0 | 15 | 149 | .544 | 3.0 | .022 |
Ted Nolan | 327 | 147 | 140 | 19 | 21 | 334 | .511 | 5.7 | .017 |
Paul Maurice | 1084 | 460 | 457 | 99 | 68 | 1087 | .501 | -13.7 | -.013 |
Phil Watson | 379 | 135 | 179 | 65 | 0 | 335 | .442 | -14.3 | -.038 |
Trent Yawney | 103 | 33 | 55 | 0 | 15 | 81 | .393 | -4.2 | -.041 |
Scott Arniel | 123 | 45 | 60 | 0 | 18 | 108 | .439 | -12.7 | -.103 |
Of course a coach is only one piece of the puzzle, but I found these interesting nonetheless.