NHL game with the most future head coaches?

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Maybe some game involving the whalers in the mid 80s

John Anderson
Dean evason
Dave tippett
Joel quenneville
Kevin dineen


An 86-87 matchup with the Habs would have also included

Bob Gainey
Larry Robinson
Guy Carbonneau

So I have no idea where this stands all time but maybe this serves as a starting point.

I counted eight.
 
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Maybe some game involving the whalers in the mid 80s

John Anderson
Dean evason
Dave tippett
Joel quenneville
Kevin dineen


An 86-87 matchup with the Habs would have also included

Bob Gainey
Larry Robinson
Guy Carbonneau

So I have no idea where this stands all time but maybe this serves as a starting point.

I counted eight.
And also Patrick Roy
 
89-90 Whalers had 6 head coaches and 3 GMs, plus some assistant coach(es?) like Ulf Samuelsson and their very own announcer in Ray Ferraro:
Joel Quenneville
Dave Tippett
Dean Evason
Kevin Dineen
Randy Cunneyworth
Brad Shaw
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Ron Francis
Pat Verbeek
Brian Lawton
 
Some of those Montreal-Boston playoff games in the late-70s would have had 10:

Lemaire
Robinson
Gainey
Risebrough
Tremblay

O'Reilly
Park
Cashman
Milbury
Cheevers


Add Jimmy Roberts to the 76-77 Habs, so that’s 11 and if you go back to 75-76 Phil Esposito played his last 12 games with the Bruins and included two games against the Habs on Oct 9th and 25, 1975. I wonder if all 12 future coaches were in the lineup in at least one of those games?
 
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You are definitely a hockey nerd and I love you for that.

I had to look up Jacques laperriere because I could have sworn he was never head coach. Apparently he coached 1 game.

It was the 95-96 season so I assume it was right after demers got fired but I have zero memory of it. In my mind, they went straight from demers to tremblay.
 
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this team really was something

peter sidorkiewicz: decade+ long career as an assistant coach in the OHL (and one year and change as head coach). according to eliteprospects, he most recently coached as an assistant in the ECHL in 2019

kevin dineen: three year stint as florida’s head coach. currently head coach of utica in the AHL

pat verbeek: current anaheim GM

dave babych: killer moustache

ray ferraro: probably the best colour guy in the game

brian lawton: longtime agent, brief stint as tampa’s GM

mike liut: longtime agent

john anderson: longtime AHL head coach with a two year stint head coaching atlanta

dave tippett: veteran NHL head coach, most recently with the oilers

sylvain cote: civilian

ron francis: seattle GM

paul macdermid: civilian

scott young: works for the canucks

ulf samuelsson: longtime assistant coach, most recently with florida

joel quenneville: highly successful scumbag
 
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this team really was something

peter sidorkiewicz: decade+ long career as an assistant coach in the OHL (and one year and change as head coach). according to eliteprospects, he most recently coached as an assistant in the ECHL in 2019

kevin dineen: three year stint as florida’s head coach. currently head coach of utica in the AHL

pat verbeek: current anaheim GM

dave babych: killer moustache

ray ferraro: probably the best colour guy in the game

brian lawton: longtime agent, brief stint as tampa’s GM

mike liut: longtime agent

john anderson: longtime AHL head coach with a two year stint head coaching atlanta

dave tippett: veteran NHL head coach, most recently with the oilers

sylvain cote: civilian

ron francis: seattle GM

paul macdermid: civilian

scott young: works for the canucks

ulf samuelsson: longtime assistant coach, most recently with florida

joel quenneville: highly successful scumbag

Ha, Sylvain Cote is hilarious in the context of the rest of that group.

This is what I could find on his post-NHL career :

After his NHL career was over, he opened a fishing charter business, as he was an avid fisherman. He also was assistant coach in 2012-13 for the Team Maryland Pee Wee team. He has been active in the Caps Alumni Association.


Dude was one of the youngest guys on that team so he played pretty deep into the post-1994 UFA era, played 1100 NHL games, collected $13 million in salary ... and like properly retired at age 37 and went fishing.
 

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