1975 O-pee-chee hockey card, from www.CheckOutMyCards.com , of the winningest coach of all time in a major sport, Scott Bowman. Bowman has been a part of 12 Stanley Cup championship teams, 9 as a coach and 3 as a front office executive. He has the most wins in both regular season (1,244) and postseason (223) of any NHL coach. He is also the only coach in any of the 4 major professional sports (football, baseball, basketball, hockey) to win a championship with 3 different teams – Montreal, Detroit and Pittsburgh. In his first stint as a head coach, he took over a first year expansion team, the St. Louis Blues, early in their first season, and coached them into the Cup Finals the first 3 years of the franchise’s existence. Bowman was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991, served as a color commentator on Canada’s national TV broadcasts on Hockey Night In Canada , and currently is a senior advisor with the Chicago Black Hawks, whose general manager is Bowman’s son Stan. Not coincidentally, the Hawks won their first Stanley Cup since 1961 last season.
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