Al Arbour, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Al Arbour

Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1932

Place of Birth: Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 28-Aug-2015

Profession: ice hockey coach, ice hockey player

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Al Arbour

  • Alger Joseph Arbour (November 1, 1932 – August 28, 2015) was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive.
  • He is third to Joel Quenneville for games coached in National Hockey League history and fourth all-time in wins, behind Scotty Bowman, Joel Quenneville and Ken Hitchcock.
  • Under Arbour, the New York Islanders won four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1983.
  • Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Arbour played amateur hockey as a defenceman with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League.
  • He played his first professional games with the Detroit Red Wings in 1953.
  • Claimed by the Chicago Black Hawks in 1958, Arbour would help the team win a championship in 1961.
  • Arbour played with the Toronto Maple Leafs for the next five years, winning another Cup in 1962.
  • He was selected by the St.
  • Louis Blues in their 1967 expansion draft and played his final four seasons with the team. During his last year with the Blues, Arbour was hired mid-season to coach the team.
  • In 107 games, he led them to a 42–40–25 record, but only one playoff series win.
  • After a woeful expansion year, the New York Islanders hired Arbour as coach in 1973.
  • Arbour led the team to a winning record every season from 1974–75 until he stepped down in 1985–86.
  • Arbour won nineteen consecutive playoff series, which remains an NHL and North American sports record.
  • He was awarded the Jack Adams Award as the league's top coach in 1979.
  • Upon retiring from the bench, Arbour was named vice-president of player development for the Islanders.
  • He returned to coach the Islanders in the 1988–89 season and remained there through 1993-94, notably upsetting the two-time defending champion Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1993 playoffs.
  • He was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for his contributions to the sport and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996.

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