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 Post subject: RIP Al Arbour
PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 12:59 pm 
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Al Arbour passed away this morning after a long battle with dementia & Parkinson's disease.

Amazing man and incredible coach.

He played with guys like Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay & Bobby Hull. He coached Bossy, Trottier, Gillies & Nystrom. He won 4 Cups as a player with 3 different teams, and Captained the Blues to 3 straight Cup finals (being swept in all 3 though). He won 4 Cups as a coach and won 19 straight playoff series. He sits 2nd behind Scotty Bowman in Cups won, games won and games coached. What a life.

Here's to Radar! :beer:

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In 1970 Scotty Bowman stepped down as coach to concentrate on his GM duties for the St Louis Blues. He named Al Arbour as his successor. Ownership fired both at the end of the '70-'71 season. The rest is history.

RIP Mr Arbour, you were the same age as my father.


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RIP. What a dynasty those Isles were.

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Great coach and a great hockey innovator. RIP Coach.

Here's a photo of Al Arbour in his rookie year in Detroit.
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 Post subject: Re: RIP Al Arbour
PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:56 pm 
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RW wrote:
Great coach and a great hockey innovator. RIP Coach.

Here's a photo of Al Arbour in his rookie year in Detroit.
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Wow. I've never seen that one. He probably couldn't see the camera. :lol: He wore his glasses on the ice while playing, and from what I've heard, was the last NHL player to do that.

Arbour's stats: http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=97

He won the Jack Adams once, and oddly it was the year before they won 4 straight Cups. I guess once they got rolling with Cups, everybody thought he'd already done a good enough job with the players that he didn't deserve as much credit. :lol:

I hope someone writes a book about him. He deserves one. Scotty Bowman said yesterday that he was so incredibly impressed with Arbour for being so successful with 1 team for so many years. Said it was a major accomplishment to keep the players listening to him for almost 2 decades.

One Islander fan on FB put it best: Now the Isles have a Hockey God up above to look over them. I dig it.

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