Happy Birthday Scotty Bowman

Happy Birthday to Scotty Bowman. He is 75 today.

Some stats courtesy of the Wikipedia page.
As head coach, Bowman has won a record nine Stanley Cups with the Canadiens, Penguins and Red Wings.
He holds the record for most wins in league history, with 1,244 wins in the regular season and 223 in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
He won the Jack Adams Award in 1977 and 1996.
No other head coach in the history of the NHL, MLB, the NFL or the NBA has won championships with three different teams.

Two other informative links - Legends of Hockey and HockeyDB.com.

According to Jamie Samuelsen of the Detroit Free Press, Bowman is the best coach in Detroit sports history.
On freep.com/sports is a list of the top 10 coaches of the past 15 years. Who would be your No. 1?
The fifteen year span makes the answer pretty obvious. In truth, you can probably go back 100 years in Michigan and get the same answer – Scotty Bowman. Bowman is the greatest coach in the history of hockey. And easily one of the five best coaches in team sports history. So it's not too much of a stretch to put him number one here. First and foremost, he just won more than anybody else in Detroit during that time. That's pretty much all you need to know. But he also delivered Detroit it's most sought after prize. And he helped Steve Yzerman realize his Stanley Cup dreams which made him even more popular.

One more thing, check out this Q&A Bowman did earlier this year with the New York Times.

Anything he has to say or write about hockey is worth listening to or reading.