Blackhawks' Quenneville set to pass Arbour's 782-win mark

With 2 more victories, Joel Quenneville will become the second-winningest coach in NHL history, passing Al Arbour, who won 782 games from 1971-1994.

(Arbour, who passed away last year, did get 1 win in 2008 coaching the Islanders).

"I've always been around good teams and good players," Quenneville said. "It's been fun."

If the Hawks beat Nashville on Tuesday at the United Center, Quenneville can pass Arbour Queon Thursday when the Hawks play at Montreal.

Scotty Bowman has the most coaching victories in NHL history with 1,244.

"I've said this before: I would have loved to have the opportunity to play for Joel," said Eddie Olczyk, who spent five of his 16 NHL seasons as a Blackhawk. "Just seeing how he is from my job and seeing how he intermingles with the players and talking to the players about Joel - not only here, but in St. Louis and (with) guys that I really respect.

"He is a player's coach and the success speaks for itself."

Quenneville had 307 victories with the Blues from 1996-2004, 131 wins with Colorado from 2005-08 and he has 343 with the Blackhawks, who he joined after four games were played in the 2008-09 season.

Numbers game:

Entering Tuesday's action, Patrick Kane led the NHL with 62 points, 9 more than his closest pursuer - Dallas' Jaime Benn. Kane has 17 more points than Ottawa's Erik Karlsson, who is in fourth.

The Hawks' winger is on pace for 116 points. The team record is 131, set by Denis Savard in the 1987-88 season. No Blackhawks player has reached 100 points since Jeremy Roenick had 107 in 1993-94.

Slapshots:

The Blackhawks were off Monday and did not provide an update on Richard Panik, the left winger the Hawks acquired in a trade last week. He's having visa issues. … After managing just 2 points in Games 23-32, Jonathan Toews has 7 goals and 7 assists in the last 12 games. … Ryan Garbutt's assist on Brandon Mashinter's first-period goal Sunday was his first point since Nov. 25. Garbutt has 1 goal and 4 assists on the season.