Fansided

Every current NHL franchise’s most beloved head coach

By Griffin Youngs

(Original Caption) Detroit Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman with the Stanley Cup on day of Red Wings celebratory parade in Detroit. (Photo by © Ralf-Finn Hestoft/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
(Original Caption) Detroit Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman with the Stanley Cup on day of Red Wings celebratory parade in Detroit. (Photo by © Ralf-Finn Hestoft/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) /
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Frank Calder (right foreground), president of the National Hockey League, presenting the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the World’s hockey championship, to manager Art Ross (left foreground), of the Boston Bruins, after the Bruins defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1, to clinch the trophy. Members of the Boston Bruins from left to right are: Weiland, Schmidt, Dumart, Getliffe, Portland, Crawford, Hollett, Cowley, Hamill, Shore and Bauer.
Frank Calder (right foreground), president of the National Hockey League, presenting the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the World’s hockey championship, to manager Art Ross (left foreground), of the Boston Bruins, after the Bruins defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1, to clinch the trophy. Members of the Boston Bruins from left to right are: Weiland, Schmidt, Dumart, Getliffe, Portland, Crawford, Hollett, Cowley, Hamill, Shore and Bauer. /

Boston Bruins: Art Ross

The now-legendary Art Ross is one of the most well respected names in all of hockey, and a name that will forever live in Boston Bruins history.

Ross played professional hockey for 16 years, and in his final year as a member of the Montreal Wanderers, Ross was the coach and played in the game, actually scoring a goal and took the first penalty in NHL history. After the Wanderers disbanded, Ross retired from playing to coach full time.

Art Ross basically built the foundation of the Boston Bruins, even coming up with the name Bruins when the team was granted to Boston. Ross was named the head coach and general manager in 1924 in the Bruins first season, and it was his job to build this team from absolutely nothing. In his first season, the Bruins won six out of 30 games; the next season, the Bruins had 17 wins in 36 games and finished one point out of the playoffs.

Over his tenure with the Bruins, the Bruins finished atop the league seven times, went to the Stanley Cup finals five times and captured the Cup twice. Ross also won 371 games behind the Bruins bench. In the 1929-1930 season, the Bruins finished 38-5-1, posting one of the greatest win percentages in league history with a .875.

Where Ross’s legacy comes into play was his dedication to growing the sport of hockey through his innovations to the game. Besides the Art Ross Trophy, which is awarded to the player with the most point at the end of the season, Ross introduced several concepts that are still used in the modern NHL.

In 1945 Ross was one of the first to be elected to the then newly founded Hockey Hall of Fame, and will forever live on not only in the hearts of Bruins faithful, but will forever be immortalized into hockey history.

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