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Isles icon, Hall of Fame coach Arbour dies at 82

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Hall of Fame coach Al Arbour, who guided the New York Islanders to four straight Stanley Cup championships in the 1980s, has died at the age of 82.

Arbour coached 1,500 regular-season games over 19 seasons with the Islanders after he was hired at the start of the 1973-74 season. He retired after the 1994 playoffs, but returned in 2007 at the age of 75 to coach one more game for the team -- a 3-2 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins.