List Of New York Islanders Head Coaches
The New York Islanders are an American professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team joined the NHL in 1972, and won their first Stanley Cup championship in 1980. The Islanders play their home games at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Charles Wang is the Islanders' owner, Garth Snow is their general manager, and Mark Streit is the team captain.
There have been 15 head coaches so far for the Islanders franchise. The team's first head coach was Phil Goyette, who coached the team for part of the 1972–73 season. Al Arbour is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (1,500) and the most regular-season game wins (740); he is also the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (198), and the most playoff-game wins (119). Goyette, Earl Ingarfield, Bill Stewart, and current coach Scott Gordon are the only coaches who spent their entire careers with the Islanders and have not been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Arbour is the only coach to have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He is also the only coach to have won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach. The franchise has participated in the Stanley Cup finals five times, coached by Arbour each time; they won Stanley Cup four of those times. Arbour, Terry Simpson, Peter Laviolette, Steve Stirling, and Ted Nolan are the only coaches to have coached the team into the playoffs.
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