Nolan is the former high-drama head coach of the New York Islanders under Charles Wang. He's since moved away from the US to coaching the Latvian national hockey team.

Getting his start in his hometown Ontario Hockey League, he only played for a handful of years in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. He began his coaching career with the Buffalo Sabres, but after making enemies in superstar goalie Dominik Hašek and general managers John Muckler and Darcy Regier and in light of an embarrassing altercation between Hasek and a Buffalo News columnist, Nolan was bounced and spent years outside of the NHL. Speculation as to why he was not offered a head coach position spanned from racism to his being a "GM Killer" from his strained work with Muckler, but by 2006, Charles Wang and the Islanders were ready to take a chance on him. While the Islanders did well under his watch, he was dismissed in 2008 and started coaching with the Rochester Americans. However, when the Americans were bought by the Sabres, his former foes, he must have taken it as a sign to leave the US and has been coaching the Latvian national hockey team since 2011. [Image via Getty]