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Very fitting that after Denis Potvin is picked, we have this pick.

With the 35th overall pick, Aeneas selects Al Arbour as coach.

In his first season as Isles coach, Arbour taught his young squad how to play defence. While they finished last in the league for the second year in a row, they gave up 100 fewer goals and earned 56 points, up from 30 the year before. New York Rangers defenceman Brad Park said after the Islanders beat their crosstown rivals for the first time, "They have a system. They look like a hockey team." Arbour's coaching laid the groundwork for future success.
The 1974–75 Islanders, on the back of talent additions and Arbour's coaching, finished third in their division with 88 points, which qualified them for the playoffs, where they defeated the heavily-favored Rangers in overtime of the deciding third game of their first round series. In the next round the Isles found themselves down three games to none in a best of seven quarterfinal series against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Prior to game four, Arbour challenged his team: he told them that anyone who didn't believe that the Islanders could come back and win the series should pack their gear and never return. The Islanders rebounded with three straight victories to tie the series and then prevailed in Game 7 by a score of 1–0. It was only the second time in major sports history, and the first since 1942, that a team won a series after trailing 3–0. Since then, only the 2004 Boston Red Sox have matched the feat. The Isles then faced the Philadelphia Flyers in the next round, again fell behind 3–0, and once again tied the series. Although the Flyers prevailed in Game 7 and went on to win the second of 2 straight Stanley Cups, the Islanders had established themselves.
The team quickly rose to the rank of contenders, then favorites, over the next four years, but they weren't able to break through and become champions. Despite achieving great regular season success, culminating in the 1978–79 campaign in which they finished with the best record in the NHL, the Islanders suffered a series of letdowns in the playoffs. In 1976 and 1977, they lost to the eventual champion Montreal Canadiens, and then suffered an upset to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1978. Then, in 1979, the rival Rangers, considered by journalists and commentators to be an inferior team, defeated Arbour's Islanders in a six game semifinal series. Arbour won the Jack Adams Award for the team's stellar regular season, but he determined that he had the wrong set of priorities in place. After the loss, he no longer placed much emphasis on the regular season finish and instead devoted his team's energy and focus to how they will perform in the playoffs.
During the 1979–1980 season, the Islanders struggled. However, following the acquisition of Butch Goring in March, the Islanders completed the regular season with a twelve-game unbeaten streak. The regular season run carried over to the playoffs and the Islanders captured their first Stanley Cup championship on May 24, 1980 by defeating the Philadelphia Flyers in overtime of game six.
Arbour and the Islanders went on capture three more consecutive Cups, a record for an American hockey club. Along the way, his team set records for consecutive regular season victories, consecutive Finals victories, and playoff series victories, cementing the team as one of the greatest dynasties not only in hockey, but professional sports. By the time the Islanders were dethroned by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals, the club had strung together nineteen consecutive playoff series victories, a professional sports record. No team in any of the four major sports has strung together four straight championships since.
Arbour retired from coaching following the 1985–86 season and accepted a position in the Islander front office.