Cup four times with the New York Islanders in the early 1980s and with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1991 and '92. He retired in 1994 and served as an assistant with the Penguins and Colorado Avalanche; he was an assistant on Colorado's 2001 Stanley Cup championship team.Much to the scorn and amazement of Islanders fans, Trottier applied for and was hired as coach of the archrival New York Rangers. His stint behind the Rangers bench lasted 54 games; he was fired after the team went 21-26-6-1, although two of the wins (and none of the losses) were against the Islanders.He returned to the Islanders as executive director of player development from 2006-10.Denis SavardTeam: Chicago Blackhawks (2006-09)Previous coaching experience: Assistant with Blackhawks,Mark Messier Jersey, 1996-2006Savard was one of the great scorers in the history of the Chicago Blackhawks, piling up 377 goals and 1,096 points -- he trails only Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita on the franchise's all-time scoring list. In Savard's first 10 seasons with the Blackhawks after they selected him with the third pick in the 1980 NHL Draft, he reached 100 points five times and had seven consecutive 30-goal seasons. He also made the "Savardian Spin-o-rama" part of the NHL lexicon.Savard retired as a player in 1997 and soon became an assistant coach,Ilya Kovalchuk Jersey, a role he held until being named interim coach on Nov. 27, 2006, after Trent Yawney was fired. The Blackhawks went 24-30-7 during the remainder of that season, but Savard drew kudos in 2007-08 for leading a young team to a 40-34-8 record and within three points of a playoff berth.That improvement raised expectations, and when the Blackhawks went 1-2-1 to start the 2008-09 season, Savard was replaced by Joel Quenneville. Savard, whose career record is 65-66-16, was quickly named as one of the team's ambassadors, a position he holds along with fellow Hall of Fame members Hull, Mikita and Tony Esposito.Adam OatesTeams: Washington Capitals (2012-current)Previous experience: Assistant with the Tampa Bay Lightning (2009-10) and New Jersey Devils (2010-12)Few men in hockey history will have a day better than the one Oates had June 26, 2012. On the same day he was named coach of the Washington Capitals, he was selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame after a career in which he established himself as one of the great passers in NHL history.Oates retired as a player after the 2003-04 season with 1,Shea Weber Yellow Authentic Jersey,079 assists and 1,420 points in 1,Zach Parise Jersey,337 regular-season games. He returned to the NHL as an assistant with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2009 and moved on to the New Jersey Devils a year later. Oates was an assistant last spring when the Devils made a surprising run to the Stanley Cup Final, and the Capitals hired him to replace Dale Hunter not long after the playoffs ended.Though the Capitals got off to a slow start, Oates helped get the team turned around. A late-season run enabled Washington to finish first in the Southeast Division with a 27-18-3 record, though the Capitals were beaten in seven games by the New York Rangers in the opening round of the playoffs.
BOSTON - Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots, Gregory Campbell scored twice and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers in Game 5 on Saturday to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.The Bruins will face the Pittsburgh Penguins for the right to play for the Stanley Cup.Recent call-up Torey Krug scored his fourth goal of the series for Boston, which reached the third round of the NHL playoffs for the second time since 1992. The other was 2011, when the Bruins won the sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history.Dan Girardi scored and Henrik Lundqvist made 29 saves for the Rangers,Patrick Kane Jersey, who lost to New Jersey in last year's East finals.Campbell broke a 1-1 tie in the second period, then added an empty-netter with 51 seconds left after Lundqvist was pulled for an extra skater.The Rangers fell behind 3-0 in the series before winning Game 4 on Thursday night to avoid a sweep, thanks in part to a pratfall by Rask that helped them erase a 2-0 deficit. They took an early lead Saturday, But they couldn't send the series b