Head Coaches of the New York Islanders

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, the former goalie of the Islanders, is their general manager, and Bill Guerin is the team captain.
There have been 14 head coaches 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.
==Key==
# 	Number of coaches
GC 	Games coached
W 	Wins = 2 points
L 	Losses = 0 points
T 	Ties = 1 point
PTS 	Points
Win%	Winning percentage
† 	Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder
* 	Spent entire NHL coaching career with the Islanders
==Coaches==
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2007–08 season.
# 	Name 	Term 	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Achievements 	Notes
# 	Name 	Term 	GC 	W 	L 	T 	Win% 	GC 	W 	L 	T 	Win% 	Achievements 	Notes
1 	Phil Goyette* 	1972–1973 	48 	6 	38 	4 	.167 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
2 	Earl Ingarfield*	1973 	30 	6 	22 	2 	.233 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
3 	Al Arbour† 	1973–1986 	1038 	552 	317 	169 	.613 	171 	109 	62 	0 	.601 	Stanley Cup Championship (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983)1979 Jack Adams Award winner	
4 	Terry Simpson 	1986–1988 	187 	81 	82 	24 	.497 	20 	9 	11 	0 	.450 	 	
 —	Al Arbour† 	1988–1994 	461 	187 	220 	54 	.464 	27 	10 	17 	0 	.370 	 	
5 	Lorne Henning 	1994–1995 	48 	15 	28 	5 	.365 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
6 	Mike Milbury 	1995–1997 	127 	35 	73 	19 	.350 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
7 	Rick Bowness 	1997–1998 	100 	38 	50 	12 	.440 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
 —	Mike Milbury 	1998–1999 	66 	22 	39 	5 	.371 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
8 	Bill Stewart* 	1999 	35 	10 	18 	7 	.385 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
9 	Butch Goring 	1999–2001 	143 	41 	89 	13 	.335 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
 —	Lorne Henning 	2001 	17 	4 	11 	2 	.294 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
10 	Peter Laviolette	2001–2003 	158 	77 	62 	19 	.546 	12 	4 	8 	0 	.333 	 	
11 	Steve Stirling 	2003–2006 	118 	56 	51 	11 	.521 	5 	1 	4 	0 	.250 	 	
12 	Brad Shaw 	2006 	40 	18 	18 	4 	.500 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
13 	Ted Nolan 	2006–2007 	82 	40 	30 	12 	.561 	5 	1 	4 	0 	.200 	 	
 —	Al Arbour† 	2007 	1 	1 	0 	0 	1.000 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
 —	Ted Nolan 	2007–2008 	81 	34 	38 	9 	.475 	— 	— 	— 	— 	— 	 	
14 	Scott Gordon 	2008–present	 — 	 — 	 — 	 — 	 — 	 — 	 — 	 — 	 — 	 — 	 	
==Notes==
* A running total of the number of coaches of the Islanders. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
* Before the 2005–06 season, the NHL instituted a penalty shootout for regular season games that remained tied after a five-minute overtime period, which prevented ties.
* In hockey, the winning percentage is calculated by dividing points by maximum possible points.
* Each year is linked to an article about that particular NHL season.
* Arbour replaced Ted Nolan as an interim head coach for one game in order to have coached 1500 Islanders games.
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