Washington Capitals Head Coach Peter Laviolette’s team entered the post-All-Star break with a hard-fought, 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. The veteran bench boss, who notched his 745th career victory, also coached in his 1,402nd career game.
In doing so, Laviolette passed former NHL and Capitals bench boss Ron Wilson for the 11th-most Games Coached in NHL history.
Head coach Peter Laviolette coached in his 1,402nd career game today, passing Ron Wilson (1,401) for the 11th-most games coached in NHL history.
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) February 11, 2023
Laviolette has coached 192 games behind the Caps bench, with a record of 108-63-31 (.592 Points Percentage). His points percentage is the fourth-highest among NHL head coaches with at least 1,400 games manned behind the bench; only Scotty Bowman, Joel Quenneville, and Ken Hitchcock are ahead.
Laviolette’s 1,402 games coached are the fifth most among active coaches and his career .592 points percentage is the fourth highest among coaches with at least 1,400 games coached (Scotty Bowman: .657; Joel Quenneville: .612; Ken Hitchcock: .599).
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) February 11, 2023
Laviolette, who is the winningest American-born Head Coach in the history of the league, ranks eighth all-time in Wins, and is 38 victories away from surpassing Al Arbour.
By Michael Fleetwood
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Congratulations, Peter on the great milestone win.
Off topic, but for all you trade rumor fans, it looks like Chycrun’s about to be dealt. He’s a healthy scratch tonight. Probably going to LA
That is interesting. It is certainly time for Arizona to move him. Been a long time coming. I’m OK with him not coming to Caps because I wouldn’t be willing to give up whatever the rediculous asking price is.
Totally agree. And that will be the problem of moving Eller or Mantha other teams will want to unload a big salary or older player or worse take an asset or pick or both that we cannot afford to lose.
Mantha might be difficult to move, but Eller’s only making $3.5M. At this time of year, it shouldn’t be too difficult for some team to absorb his pro-rated salary. If they dealt him tomorrow, I think he’d only count about $1.1M against the cap. I’m no cap expert, though. But I do believe it shouldn’t be that hard to unload him.
Not even a whisper about contract negotiations for renewing Lavi.
A this point I hope that there are none as he is NOT the coach to start a rebuild here.
I’ll agree with you on that topic, Druid