Scotty Bowman holds the record for most wins in league history, with 1,248 wins in the regular season and 223 in the Stanley Cup playoffs and ranks second all time for most Stanley Cup victories by a player, coach or executive with fourteen.
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Scotty Bowman coached the St Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Detroit Red Wings.
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Scotty Bowman was most recently the Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations for the Chicago Blackhawks, until stepping down in July 2022.
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Scotty Bowman has won five Stanley Cups as a member of an organization's front office.
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Scotty Bowman was director of player development for the 1991 Penguins, Consultant with the 2008 Detroit Red Wings, and Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations for the 2010,2013, and 2015 Chicago Blackhawks.
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Scotty Bowman is the only NHL coach to lead three teams to Stanley Cup victories.
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Scotty Bowman's teams made it to the Stanley Cup Finals a record 13 times and the semi-finals a record 16 times.
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Scotty Bowman played junior league hockey until a fractured skull resulting from a slash by Jean-Guy Talbot ended his playing aspirations.
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Scotty Bowman started coaching with the Ottawa-Hull Canadiens in the Quebec Junior Hockey League in 1956.
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Two years later, the team coached by Scotty Bowman and managed by Sam Pollock won the Memorial Cup in 1958.
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Scotty Bowman assumed General Manager duties after Patrick gave up that job in the summer of 1968.
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Scotty Bowman was hired in part because he is fluently bilingual in English and French.
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Scotty Bowman's team lost in the first round of the playoffs in 1972 but won the Stanley Cup in 1973.
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From 1976 to 1979, Scotty Bowman won four consecutive Stanley Cups with a talented Canadiens squad that included Guy Lafleur, Steve Shutt, Larry Robinson and Ken Dryden.
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Scotty Bowman's team won at least 45 games in each of his eight seasons.
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Scotty Bowman remains second all-time in Canadiens history in both wins and winning percentage, behind Toe Blake in both categories.
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Scotty Bowman served as the team's general manager until 1987, doubling as coach on three separate occasions.
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Scotty Bowman left the Sabres as coach with the highest franchise win rate in their history.
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Scotty Bowman joined the Sabres around the same time that their stars were growing old.
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Scotty Bowman then become the color commentator for the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada usually alongside Don Wittman.
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Scotty Bowman became the Director of Player Personnel of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1990 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991 as a builder.
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Scotty Bowman decided in February 2002 that he would retire at the end of the season and he went out as a winner as his Red Wings won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Carolina Hurricanes 4 games to 1.
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Scotty Bowman has coached the Canada men's national ice hockey team at the international level twice in his career.
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On February 8,2017, it was announced that Scotty Bowman would receive Order of Hockey in Canada award in a ceremony on June 19.
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