Congrats, Joel

[Bill Berzeench 310]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/m_news.htm?id=797784

This is a serious accomplishment. Babcock this, Babcock that. Blah blah blah. Meanwhile, this guy is simply winning. Will be interesting to see if he can rack up the extra 500 wins he needs to pass Scotty.

[miksteri 55]

Q gets help from his GM who does his best to improve the team, unlike other GMs...

[GMRwings1983 8,794]

I liked him more when he coached the Blues and was our b****

Edited January 15, 2016 by GMRwings1983

[toby91_ca 620]

Highly unlikely he catches Bowman, it's almost unthinkable actually. He'd have to coach for another 10-12 years assuming he wins at a rate of 40-45 a year, which likely isn't possible either. That put him close to 70 years old....possible, but I highly doubt he'd be coaching that long.

Bowman coached for about 11 more years than Joel as well...so winning % is about in line with Bowman. If he gets on with a hot team, he may stick around long enough....who knows....that's what happened with Bowman and Detroit. Joel is with such a team now, but it's unlikely that maintain their status for the next 10 years .

[LeftWinger 4,961]

at our former coach not even being in the top 10...yet, of course.

(btw, not bitter he left, dislike him for his treatment of Fedorov.)

[Wings3:16 318]

Trotz being #10 is pretty impressive...he did it very quietly!

[frankgrimes 1,836]

Trotz and Tippet are probably the most underrated coaches in the league

[Son of a Wing 1,644]

Trotz and Tippet are probably the most underrated coaches in the league

I don't think they're underrated at all.

Most in the business would consider them top 5.

[kliq 3,755]

Trotz and Tippet are probably the most underrated coaches in the league

Ya Frank I dont know where you got them being underrated from.Just one of many examples, here is an article from NHL.com (it is from 2 years ago) where they rank Trotz as the #2 coach in the NHL and Tippet as #4. When you are being called top 4 in the world that is not underrated.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=664268

Edited January 16, 2016 by kliq

[frankgrimes 1,836]

Ya Frank I dont know where you got them being underrated from.Just one of many examples, here is an article from NHL.com (it is from 2 years ago) where they rank Trotz as the #2 coach in the NHL and Tippet as #4. When you are being called top 4 in the world that is not underrated.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=664268

Good find thank you very much I've stopped using that site since the re design because navigation isn't to my liking and I can't find anything

it's a good list but Laviolette over McLellan is something I don't agree with. I'd really love to see what Tippet could do with a non internal budget team.

Q's extension kicks after his 2 remaining years so he will be in Chicago for at least 5 more years. Hawks didn't a better job of keeping the contract details secure instead of leaking it to the media like Toronto did.

Edited January 16, 2016 by frankgrimes

[kipwinger 8,524]

That's because their coach doesn't appear to get his jollies off of being the center of a media circus.

[chaps80 1,591]

at our former coach not even being in the top 10...yet, of course.

(btw, not bitter he left, dislike him for his treatment of Fedorov.)

You mean Babcock correct? He didn't coach Fedorov in Detroit. Unless your talking about when he coached him in Anaheim? What happened there?

[kliq 3,755]

You mean Babcock correct? He didn't coach Fedorov in Detroit. Unless your talking about when he coached him in Anaheim? What happened there?

I think this may also be in reference to a trade deadline a few years back where Holland wanted to bring back Fedorov and Babcock supposedly put the kibosh on it.

[gcom007 1,465]

I think this may also be in reference to a trade deadline a few years back where Holland wanted to bring back Fedorov and Babcock supposedly put the kibosh on it.

Who knows the truth on this, but in any event, that was such a bummer. I would've loved to have seen Feds finish his career as a Wing.

[kliq 3,755]

Who knows the truth on this, but in any event, that was such a bummer. I would've loved to have seen Feds finish his career as a Wing.

Ya that's why I said supposedly. My gut tells me its true, but we cant know for sure.

[TheXym 2,606]

I remember hearing those rumors when it supposedly happened, and I also think that where there was smoke, there was fire.

[Bill Berzeench 310]

Babcock will fade away over the next 8 years.

[kliq 3,755]

I remember hearing those rumors when it supposedly happened, and I also think that where there was smoke, there was fire.

I found this:

http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2008/03/blame_bebcock_for_nixing_fedor.html

[TheXym 2,606]

I found this:

http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2008/03/blame_bebcock_for_nixing_fedor.html

Great find.