Every National Hockey League senior management team basically includes a general manager and a head coach. They have separate responsibilities. But GMs and coaches are employed to jointly build a franchise that brings home Lord Stanley’s Cup. Indeed, while owners and team presidents are generally happy if their organization operates in the black, there should be no question that winning the playoffs is the ultimate goal. The Cup, of course, goes to just one team at the end of the season, which is why managers of losing teams, especially ones that fail to make the playoffs, find themselves in danger of being fired every year. For example, on April 14, 2014, after 15 seasons as the only coach of the Nashville Predators, Barry Trotz was let go because his team did not make the playoffs. At the time, he was the longest serving coach in the NHL. Shortly after, Washington, Florida, Vancouver and Carolina all fired coaching staff. What about GMs? Washington recently decided to not renew the contract of George MacPhee, who had been the Capital’s GM for almost 17 years. Mike Gillis was fired by the Canucks on April 8. On April 28, Jim Rutherford stepped down as GM of the Carolina Hurricanes after 20 years in that position. He was replaced by former VP of hockey operations Ron Francis, a former player with two Cup rings to his credit. On May 16, Pittsburgh Penguins fired GM Ray Shero. He had been with the Penguins since 2006 and had built a team that won the Cup in 2009.
In the history of the NHL, nine Cup-winning GMs have been hired to duplicate a Stanley Cup victory at another organization, but only one has been successful: Tommy Gorman with Ottawa (1920, 1921 and 1923), Chicago (1934), Montreal Maroons (1935) and Montreal Canadiens (1944 and 1946).Nevertheless, because winning is the endgame, some losing teams have long tried to improve their chances of victory by replacing existing management with a so-called “proven winner,” meaning someone who has already won a Cup as a GM at another team, as a coach or as a player. In 2008, Richard Peddie, former head of Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, hired Brian Burke as GM of the Leafs because Burke had won the Stanley Cup as GM of the Anaheim Ducks in 2007. At the time, Ken Campbell, a senior writer with The Hockey News, argued that hiring a “proven winner” was better than hiring a non-winner. This logic is also applied to coaches. When Peter Laviolette became the new coach of the Predators this year, GM David Poile noted he was glad to land “an experienced coach who won a Stanley Cup.” According to Poile, hiring Laviolette, who won a Cup playing with the Hurricanes, was “arguably the most important decision we’re making this offseason.” He obviously thinks hiring a Cup-winning coach will offer his team some form of competitive advantage.
Unfortunately, NHL statistics do not support this conclusion. In “Debunking the Proven Winner Myth in the National Hockey League” (Ivey Business Journal, May/June 2012), I examined the likelihood of winning with a Cup winner at the GM, coach and team captain levels. It was shown that the odds of winning by hiring a so-called proven winner from another team at each of these three levels of leadership were 11.1 per cent for GMs, 13 per cent for coaches and 33.3 per cent for captains. These odds were compared with the odds of winning at each leadership level if a proven winner stayed with the team with which he had already won a Stanley Cup. The odds of winning two or more Cups with the same team having already won one Cup were 54.1 per cent for GMs, 26.4 per cent for coaches and 43.8 per cent for captains.
Examining data from the 1915/1916 season to the 2012/2013 season (see Exhibit One for teams no longer in the NHL), this article highlights the growing evidence that indicates hiring a winning player, coach or general manager from another team to lead a team as coach or GM is far from a silver bullet solution for winning a Stanley Cup. In fact, it might even be a bad idea.
Exhibit One The Other Teams To Play in The NHL
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Teams Including Their Various Name Changes |
Years in the NHL |
Ottawa Senators The Senators were renamed the St. Louis Eagles and moved to St. Louis for the 1934/1935 season. As the Senators they won the Cup in 1920, 1921, 1923 and 1927. They were the NHL’s first dynasty. |
1917/1918 to 1930/1931 |
1932/1933 to 1933/1934 |
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1934/1935 |
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Montreal Maroons Won the Stanley Cup in 1926 and 1935. |
1924/1925 to 1937/1938 |
NY Americans Renamed the Brooklyn Americans for their last season in the NHL. |
1925/1926 to 1940/1941 |
1941/1942 |
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Quebec Bulldogs Renamed the Hamilton Tigers and moved to Hamilton for the 1920/1921 season. When the team folded after the 1924/1925 season the players were acquired by the NY Americans. |
1919/1920 |
1920/1921 to 1924/1925 |
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Pittsburgh Pirates Renamed the Philadelphia Quakers and moved to Philadelphia for the 1930/1931 season. |
1925/26 to 1929/1930 |
1930/1931 |
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Montreal Wanderers The Wanderers played six games in the fall of 1917 before folding. |
1917/1918 |
California Golden Seals Originally named the California Seals, the name was changed to the Oakland Seals in the 1967/1968 season. In 1970 the name was changed to the California Golden Seals. The team was moved to Cleveland in 1976 and became the Cleveland Barons. The team folded in 1978. |
1967/1968 to 1975/1976 |
1976/1977 to 1977/1978 |
PLAYERS TO GM
In his book Behind the Moves, Jason Farris reported that 170 GMs had led NHL teams during a portion of a regular season from 1926/1927 to 2010/2011. By expanding the time period from 1915/1916 to 2012/2013, I pick up another eight GMs for a total of 178. Ninety-three of these played in the NHL while 85 did not (see Table One). Interestingly, teams who hired former NHL players as GMs were much less likely to win Cups than were teams who hired individuals who did not play (see Table Two). The percentage of wins with a GM who did not play was 29.4 per cent versus 11.8 per cent with former NHL players at the helm. The odds of winning with non-players as GM were 2.5 times that of winning with former players. Furthermore, when looking at the GMs who played in the NHL, the percentage who won a Cup as GM after winning a Cup as a player is 14.3 per cent, compared to 9.8 per cent for GMs who played in the NHL but not on a Cup-winning team (see Table Three). This is not a statistically significant difference. What about GMs who served as team captains? According to the numbers (see Table Four), experience playing as a team captain makes little or no difference in a GM’s ability to build a Cup-winning team. This appears to be the case even for GMs who won a Stanley Cup as a team captain (see Table Five). In fact, only two Cup-winning team captains (Eddie Gerard and Bob Gainey) have led a team to a Cup win as a GM. According to the above, GMs who never played in the NHL are significantly more likely to win the Cup than teams led by Cup-winning players, including players who served as a team captain. This does not support the proven-winner theory that David Poile is now counting on. Indeed, the lure of hiring a “proven winner” from the ranks of those who played seems to lead to counter intuitive results – a lowering of the odds of building a Cup-winning team.
TABLE ONE NHL General Managers Who Won The Stanley Cup |
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General Manager | Cups | Team |
Played* |
Captain** |
Coach *** |
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Prior to |
During |
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Pollack, Sam |
9 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Adams, Jack |
7 |
Detroit |
Yes (2) |
No |
No |
Yes (3) |
|
Gorman, Tommy |
3 |
Ottawa |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
1 |
Chicago |
No |
|
No |
Yes (1) |
||
1 |
Maroons |
No |
|
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
||
2 |
Montreal |
No |
|
Yes (2) |
No |
||
Smythe, Conn |
7 |
Toronto |
No |
|
No |
Yes (0) |
|
Selke, Sr., Frank |
6 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Sather, Glen |
5 |
Edmonton |
Yes (0) |
No |
Yes (0) |
Yes (4) |
|
Imlach, Punch |
4 |
Toronto |
No |
|
No |
Yes (4) |
|
Torrey, Bill |
4 |
NY Islanders |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Holland, Ken |
3 |
Detroit |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
No |
|
Lamoriello, Lou |
3 |
New Jersey |
No |
|
No |
Yes (0) |
|
Patrick, Lester |
3 |
NY Rangers |
No |
|
No |
Yes (2) |
|
Ross, Art |
3 |
Boston |
Yes (0) |
No |
Yes (0) |
Yes (1) |
|
Allen, Keith |
2 |
Philadelphia |
Yes (1) |
No |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Bowman, Stan |
2 |
Chicago |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Dandurand, Leo |
2 |
Montreal |
No |
|
Yes (1) |
No |
|
Lacroix, Pierre |
2 |
Colorado |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Patrick, Craig |
2 |
Pittsburgh |
Yes (0) |
No |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
|
Querrie, Charles |
2 |
Toronto |
No |
|
No |
Yes (0) |
|
Savard, Serge |
2 |
Montreal |
Yes (8) |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
|
Schmidt, Milt |
2 |
Boston |
Yes (2) |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Burke, Brian |
1 |
Anaheim |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Chiarelli, Peter |
1 |
Boston |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Devellano, Jim |
1 |
Detroit |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Feaster, Jay |
1 |
Tampa Bay |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Fletcher, Cliff |
1 |
Calgary |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Gainey, Bob |
1 |
Dallas |
Yes (5) |
Yes (1) |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
|
Gerard, Eddie |
1 |
Maroons |
Yes (3) |
Yes (3) |
Yes (0) |
Yes (1) |
|
Gill, Dave |
1 |
Ottawa |
No |
|
No |
Yes (1) |
|
Grundman, Irving |
1 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Ivan, Tommy |
1 |
Chicago |
No |
|
Yes (3) |
Yes (0) |
|
Kennedy, George |
1 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Lombardi, Dean |
1 |
Los Angeles |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Rutherford, Jim |
1 |
Carolina |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
No |
|
Shero, Ray |
1 |
Pittsburgh |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Smith, Neil |
1 |
NY Rangers |
No |
|
No |
No |
|
Tobin, Bill |
1 |
Chicago |
No |
|
Yes (0) |
No |
*If GM won the Stanley Cup as a player, the number of Cups won as a player is in brackets.
**If GM won the Stanley Cup during his tenure as a team Captain, the number won as a Captain is in brackets.
*** If GM won the Stanley Cup as a coach, whether it was prior to his tenure as a GM or during his tenure as a GM, the number won is in brackets.
TABLE TWO Relationship between Playing in the NHL and Winning the Stanley Cup as a General Manager |
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Won Stanley Cup as a GM |
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|
No |
Yes |
Totals |
% |
|
Played in NHL |
No |
60 |
25 |
85 |
29.4 |
Yes |
82 |
11 |
93 |
11.8 |
|
Totals |
142 |
36 |
178 |
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Statistically, this is a significant negative relationship with a significance level of p< .005.
TABLE THREE Relationship between Winning a Stanley Cup as a player and Winning as a General Manager |
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Won Stanley Cup as a GM |
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No | Yes | Totals | % | ||
Won Stanley Cup as NHL Player | No | 46 | 5 | 51 | 9.8 |
Yes | 36 | 6 | 42 | 14.3 | |
Totals | 82 | 11 | 93 |
TABLE FOUR Relationship between Serving as Team Captain and Winning a Stanley Cup as a General Manager |
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Won Stanley Cup as a GM |
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No | Yes | Totals | % | ||
Served as an NHL Team Captain | No | 53 | 7 | 60 | 11.7 |
Yes | 29 | 4 | 33 | 12.1 | |
Totals | 82 | 11 | 93 |
TABLE FIVE Relationship between Winning a Stanley Cup as Team Captain and as a General Manager |
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Won Stanley Cup as a GM |
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No |
Yes |
Totals |
% |
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Won Stanley Cup as an NHL Team Captain | No |
21 |
2 |
23 |
8.7 |
Yes |
8 |
2 |
10 |
20.0 |
|
Totals |
29 |
4 |
33 |
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COACHES TO GM
Another question for NHL team owners/CEOs/presidents is whether or not GMs with coaching experience (prior to or during their tenure as a GM) win significantly more Cups than those who never served as a coach? I found the percentage of GMs who won Cups without coaching experience was 19.7 per cent, compared to 20.7 per cent for GMs with coaching experience (see Table Six). This is a non-significant difference. The non-significant difference was also there when I split GMs with coaching experience prior to their GM tenure from GMs who coached during their GM tenure (see Table Seven). The percentage of GMs who won Cups and coached during their tenure was 26.5 per cent, compared to 17.2 per cent for those with coaching experience prior to their tenure as GM. This suggests that having coaching experience appears to make no difference in a GM’s ability to build a Cup-winning team. While the difference between having coaching experience or not makes no difference in a GM’s ability to build a Cup-winning team, maybe those who coached prior to becoming a GM and won a Cup during that part of their career do better in building Cup winners as a GM. There were 58 GMs who had coaching experience prior to becoming a NHL GM. Ten won Cups as coaches prior to becoming a GM. Of these 10, three were able to build a Cup-winning team as a GM. This compares to 10 of 48 GMs with prior coaching experience that did not lead to a Cup win building a Cup-winning team as GM. The percentages are 30 per cent to 20.8 per cent, respectively (see Table Eight). This is not a significant difference and does not support the proven-winner theory. As a result, the odds of building a Cup-winning team with a GM having coaching experience prior to becoming a GM, whether winning a Cup or not, is no different than never having coached in the NHL.
TABLE SIX Relationship between Coaching in the NHL and Winning Stanley Cups as a NHL General Manager
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Coaching Experience |
Won Stanley Cup as a GM |
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No |
Yes |
Total |
Percentage Wins |
|
Never Coached |
69 |
17 |
86 |
19.7 |
Prior to/Only During Tenure |
73 |
19 |
92 |
20.7 |
Total |
142 |
36 |
178 |
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TABLE SEVEN Relationship between Coaching in the NHL and Winning Stanley Cups as a NHL General Manager
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Coaching Experience |
Won Stanley Cup as a GM |
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No |
Yes |
Total |
Percentage Wins |
|
Never Coached |
69 |
17 |
86 |
19.7 |
Prior to |
48 |
10 |
58 |
17.2 |
During only |
25 |
9 |
34 |
26.5 |
Total |
142 |
36 |
178 |
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TABLE EIGHT Relationship between Winning a Stanley Cup while Coaching prior to Becoming a GM and Winning Stanley Cups as a NHL General Manager
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Won a Stanley Cup while a Coach Prior to Becoming a GM |
Won Stanley Cup as a GM |
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No |
Yes |
Total |
Percentage Wins |
|
No |
38 |
10 |
48 |
20.8 |
Yes |
7 |
3 |
10 |
30.0 |
Total |
45 |
13 |
58 |
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PLAYERS TO COACHES
Two of the winningest coaches from 1915/1916 to 2012/2013 are Scotty Bowman with nine Cups and Toe Blake with eight Cups (see Table Nine). Bowman never played in the NHL. Blake won three Cups as a player, two of them as the captain of the Montreal Canadiens. So, should a team look for a former player to be the coach? And if so, should they hire a former Cup-winning player, a former team captain or a Cup-winning former team captain? The odds of winning with a former player are significantly lower at 10.6 per cent than it is with a person who did not have the opportunity to play in the NHL at 22.5 per cent. Whether the player won a Cup or not makes no difference. Whether he served as a captain or not makes no difference. However, if you are going to hire a player, the data suggests that team captains who won a Cup (22.2 per cent) are significantly more likely to win as a coach than those team captains who did not win a Cup (6.3 per cent). Having said that, the odds of winning with a Cup-winning captain are virtually the same as winning with a person who never played in the NHL. This suggests that being seduced by the glitter of a Cup ring on the hands of a former player does not improve the odds of hiring a Cup-winning coach, whether he won a Cup as a player and/or as a team captain.
TABLE NINE NHL Coaches Who Won The Stanley Cup |
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Coach |
Cups |
Team |
Played* |
Captain** |
GM*** |
Bowman, Scotty |
5 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
1 |
Pittsburgh |
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3 |
Detroit |
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Blake, Toe |
8 |
Montreal |
Yes (3) |
Yes (2) |
No |
Day, Hap |
5 |
Toronto |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
No |
Arbour, Al |
4 |
NY Islanders |
Yes (4) |
Yes (0) |
No |
Imlach, Punch |
4 |
Toronto |
No |
|
Yes |
Irvin, Dick |
1 |
Toronto |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
No |
3 |
Montreal |
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Sather, Glen |
4 |
Edmonton |
Yes (0) |
No |
Yes |
Adams, Jack |
3 |
Detroit |
Yes (2) |
No |
Yes |
Green, Pete |
3 |
Ottawa (1920/1921/1923) |
No |
|
No |
Ivan, Tommy |
3 |
Detroit |
No |
|
No |
Gorman, Tommy |
1 |
Chicago |
No |
|
Yes |
1 |
Maroons |
Yes |
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Hart, Cecil |
2 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
Patrick, Lester |
2 |
NY Rangers |
Yes (0) |
No |
Yes |
Quennville, Joel |
2 |
Chicago |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
Ross, Art |
2 |
Boston |
Yes (0) |
No |
Yes |
Shero, Fred |
2 |
Philadelphia |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
Babcock, Mike |
1 |
Detroit |
No |
|
No |
Boucher, Frank |
1 |
NY Rangers |
No |
|
No |
Burns, Pat |
1 |
New Jersey |
No |
|
No |
Bylsma, Dan |
1 |
Pittsburgh |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
Carlyle, Randy |
1 |
Anaheim |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
No |
Carroll, Dick |
1 |
Toronto |
No |
|
No |
Crawford, Marc |
1 |
Colorado |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
Crisp, Terry |
1 |
Calgary |
Yes (2) |
No |
No |
Dandurand, Leo |
1 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
Demers, Jacque |
1 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
Gerard, Eddie |
1 |
Maroons |
Yes (3) |
Yes (3) |
Yes |
Gill, David |
1 |
Ottawa |
No |
|
Yes |
Hartley, Bob |
1 |
Colorado |
No |
|
No |
Hitchcock, Ken |
1 |
Dallas |
No |
|
No |
Johnson, Bob |
1 |
Pittsburgh |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
Johnson, Tom |
1 |
Boston |
Yes (6) |
No |
No |
Julien, Claude |
1 |
Boston |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
Keenan, Mike |
1 |
NY Rangers |
No |
|
No |
Laviolette, Peter |
1 |
Carolina |
Yes (0) |
|
No |
Lemaire, Jacques |
1 |
New Jersey |
Yes (8) |
No |
No |
MacNeil, Al |
1 |
Montreal |
Yes (0) |
No |
No |
Muckler, John |
1 |
Edmonton |
No |
|
No |
O’Donoghue, George |
1 |
Toronto |
No |
|
No |
Perron, Jean |
1 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
Pilous, Rudy |
1 |
Chicago |
No |
|
No |
Primeau, Joe |
1 |
Toronto |
Yes (1) |
No |
No |
Robinson, Larry |
1 |
New Jersey |
Yes (6) |
No |
No |
Ruel, Claude |
1 |
Montreal |
No |
|
No |
Sinden, Harry |
1 |
Boston |
No |
|
No |
Skinner, Jimmy |
1 |
Detroit |
No |
|
No |
Stewart, Bill J. |
1 |
Chicago |
No |
|
No |
Sutter, Darryl |
1 |
Los Angeles |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
No |
Tortorella, John |
1 |
Tampa Bay |
No |
|
No |
Weiland, Cooney |
1 |
Boston |
Yes (2) |
Yes (1) |
No |
CONCLUSION
The most important decision for a NHL team owner/CEO/president involves who he/she hires as general manager. As a result, an examination of GMs who led their team into the 2013/2014 season (see Table Ten) reveals an interesting pattern. More than half of those GMs played in the NHL, so it appears most current team owners/CEOs/presidents believe NHL playing experience will enable a GM to better build a Cup winner. That’s despite the fact that of the nine GMs that have won Cups, six did not play in the NHL and only one (Glen Sather) had coaching experience prior to his first stint as a GM. Furthermore, despite evidence that the odds of winning with a GM who won Cups as a team captain are no better than with someone who never played in the NHL, two teams appear to have been seduced by the lure of a “proven-winner.” Tampa Bay GM Steve Yzerman is a three-time Cup-winning team captain with the Detroit Red Wings, and Edmonton GM Craig MacTavish is a four-time Cup-winning player with the Oilers.
The data presented in this paper suggests the skill set acquired as a NHL player, team captain and/or coach is different than the skill set required to be a Cup-winning NHL GM. Only 36 (20 per cent) of the approximately 178 men who have served as an NHL GM have managed to build teams that won the Stanley Cup. Sam Pollock won the most Cups, nine times in 14 seasons as GM of the Canadiens. And he never played or coached in the NHL before taking over as Montreal GM from Frank Selke. Selke won six Cups in 18 seasons as Montreal’s GM. He never played or coached in the NHL. Since 1987, only two GMs have led their clubs to three Stanley Cup-winning seasons – Lou Lamoriello and Ken Holland. Lamoriello has won three Cups as GM of the New Jersey Devils. He never coached or played in the NHL. Holland has won three Cups with the Detroit Red Wings. He never coached in the NHL, although he did play four games. So where did these winning GMs develop the skills required to bring home a Cup?
Pollock won two Memorial Cups as coach/GM with junior teams owned by the Canadiens in 1950 (Montreal Junior Canadiens) and 1958 (Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens). In addition, he won two championships with minor pro teams owned by the Canadiens in 1963 (Ottawa-Hull Canadiens in the Eastern Professional Hockey League) and in 1964 (the Omaha Knights in the Central Hockey League). Selke served as Conn Smythe’s assistant GM in Toronto from the 1929/1930 season to the 1945/1946 season. During this period, Smythe built three Cup-winning teams. Selke also assisted Smythe in building the first farm team system from which Smythe built his Cup-winning teams. He brought this farm team building ability to Montreal and trained Pollock in this system. Lamoriello was associated with Providence College for 20 years as a hockey player, hockey coach and administrator. He served as the coach for 15 seasons compiling a 0.578 record. During his last five seasons (1978-1983), the NHL drafted more players from his team than it drafted from any other college team. After playing just four games in the NHL with a 0-2-1 record as a goalie (one loss with the Hartford Whalers during the 1980/1981 season and three games with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1983/1984 season), Holland served as a Red Wings’ scout for two years, as Director of Amateur Scouting for seven years and as the assistant GM for three years before becoming the GM in July 1997.
When considering hiring a new GM, team owners/CEOs/presidents should look for individuals like these who have spent time learning to assess coach and player talent, from a different position, with a different team, or in a different hockey system, and have demonstrated a proven ability to find, recruit and retain such talent.
What about coaches? At the start of the 2013/2014 season, 18 of 30 teams had a coach with NHL playing experience which indicates the majority of NHL GMs appear to prefer coaches who played in the NHL. To improve their chances, they should consider looking for coaches in the three junior leagues, the minor professional leagues and the university systems in Canada and the United States. Why? I can offer four reasons: Pat Burns, Mike Babcock, Punch Imlach and Scotty Bowman!
Burns coached in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the American Hockey League. Babcock coached at the university level and in the Western Hockey League and the American Hockey League. Imlach coached in the Canadian military, in the Quebec Senior Hockey League and in the minor professional leagues as coach of the Spring Indians. Bowman coached in the Quebec Junior Hockey league and the Ontario Hockey Association. None of them played in the NHL, but they led teams to one, one, four and nine Cups respectively.
TABLE TEN
List of GMs Who Led Their Teams at the Start of the 2013/2014 Season
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General Manager |
Team |
Played in NHL** |
Coached Prior to Assuming GM Duties** |
Cups Won |
Bob Murray | Anaheim |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Peter Chiarelli | Boston |
No |
No |
1 |
Darcy Regier* | Buffalo |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Jay Feaster* | Calgary |
No |
No |
1 – with Tampa Bay |
Jim Rutherford* | Carolina |
Yes (0) |
No |
1 |
Stan Bowman | Chicago |
No |
No |
2 |
Greg Sherman | Colorado |
No |
No |
|
Jarmo Kekalainen | Columbus |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Jim Nill | Dallas |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Ken Holland | Detroit |
Yes (0) |
No |
3 |
Craig MacTavish | Edmonton |
Yes (4) |
Yes (0) |
|
Dale Tallon | Florida |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Dean Lombardi | Los Angeles |
No |
No |
1 |
Chuck Fletcher | Minnesota |
No |
No |
|
Marc Bergevin | Montreal |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
David Poile | Nashville |
No |
No |
|
Lou Lamoriello | New Jersey |
No |
No |
3 |
Garth Snow | NY Islanders |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Glen Sather | NY Rangers |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
5 – with Edmonton |
Bryan Murray | Ottawa |
No |
Yes (0) |
|
Paul Holmgren | Philadelphia |
Yes (0) |
Yes (0) |
|
Don Maloney | Phoenix |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Ray Shero | Pittsburgh |
No |
No |
1 |
Doug Armstrong | St. Louis |
No |
No |
|
Doug Wilson | San Jose |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Steve Yzerman | Tampa Bay |
Yes (3) |
No |
|
Dave Nonis | Toronto |
No |
No |
|
Mike Gillis* | Vancouver |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
George MacPhee* | Washington |
Yes (0) |
No |
|
Kevin Chevldayoff | Winnipeg |
No |
No |
|
*Fired/stepped down during or at the end of the 2013/2014 season.
**If played or coached in NHL, numbers in parentheses are number of Cups won.