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Top NHL Coaches In The Expansion Era

05/14/2020 at 12:41pm EDT

from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,

The coach picked first was given 16 points, second got 15, third 14 and so on down to No. 16, who got one point.

Here is the Super 16, best coaches from 1967 to the present day:

15. Roger Neilson
Total points:
38

Hall of Fame induction: 2002

Neilson was well known as an innovator and a rule bender. He popularized the use of video to analyze opponents and search for weaknesses and tried to use defensemen as goalies on penalty shots because they could rush the shooter. Those are just a few examples. He won 460 games and coached the last two for the Ottawa Senators (he was an assistant) in the 2001-02 season to reach 1,000 games. Neilson had the most success with the Rangers, going 141-104 with 35 ties from 1989-93. New York won the Presidents' Trophy in 1991-92, going 50-25 with five ties for 105 points.

16. Lindy Ruff
Total points:
35

Hall of Fame induction: Not in, active (Rangers assistant)

Ruff coached the Buffalo Sabres from 1997-2013 and won a team-record 571 games. He is sixth all-time with 736 wins, having also coached the Stars to 165 wins from 2013-17. Ruff won the Jack Adams Award in 2005-06, when the Sabres won a then team-record 52 games (they won 53 the following season). Ruff has never won the Stanley Cup but guided Buffalo to the Cup Final in 1999, when it lost to Hitchcock and the Stars in six games. His teams are 66-54 in the playoffs.

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