Bill Nyrop

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United StatesUnited States  Bill Nyrop Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 23, 1952
place of birth Washington, DC , USA
date of death December 31, 1995
Place of death Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 93 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1972 , 5th lap, 66th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1967-1970 Edina High School
1970-1974 University of Notre Dame
1974-1976 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1976-1988 Canadiens de Montréal
1981-1982 Minnesota North Stars
1982-1983 Cologne EC

William Donald "Bill" Nyrop (born July 23, 1952 in Washington, DC , † December 31, 1995 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) was an American ice hockey player and coach , who in the course of his active career between 1970 and 1978 and 1981 and 1983, among other things, has played 242 games for the Canadiens de Montréal and Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . During his only four seasons in the NHL, Nyrop won the Stanley Cup three times - all between 1976 and 1978 with Canadiens de Montréal. Although his professional career was relatively short, he was posthumously inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997 for his accomplishments in hockey in the United States .

Career

Nyrop was born in Washington, DC , the US capital . Due to his father's professional obligations in the military and the government of President Harry S. Truman , the family moved to Edina , Minnesota, in the early 1950s . The defender spent his youth there and attended the Edina High School there until 1970 . Nyrop then began studying at the University of Notre Dame , where he played for the university's ice hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , for the next four years . In the four-year period between 1970 and 1974, at the end of the 1972/73 season, he was elected to both the WCHA's Second All-Star Team and the NCAA's West First All-American Team. The previous summer he had already been selected in the fifth round of the NHL Amateur Draft 1972 in 66th place by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League .

After completing his studies, the American switched to the professional field in the summer of 1974. From the strong defensive Canadiens, Nyrop was initially given to the farm team Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League . There he spent nearly two seasons before he made his debut for Montréal in the NHL during the 1975/76 season . At the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1976 , he won his first Stanley Cup with the French Canadians. His performances in the course of the season brought Nyrop at the beginning of the season 1976/77 a regular place in the squad of the Habs , with which he had two more Stanley Cup victories in the following two playoffs in 1977 and 1978 .

Despite the immense successes in his first three NHL years, Nyrop decided after the playoffs in 1978, shortly before his 26th birthday, to retire from active sports. Although numerous teammates and the coaching team tried to convince him otherwise, he decided to start studying law . During his studies, however, the Canadiens transferred him - although his resignation - in August 1979 to the Minnesota North Stars . This gave it a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 1979 . However, it was not until the preparation for the 1980/81 season that the management of the North Stars could convince the defender of a comeback. As part of the Dagens Nyheter Cup in Sweden in September 1980, Nyrop completed his first games for the franchise . For the season 1981/82 he was back in the NHL after a three-year break on the ice and came to 44 missions for Minnesota.

After he had given him in June 1982 together with Steve Christoff and a second round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft 1982 in exchange for Willi Plett and a fourth round suffrage of the same draft to the Calgary Flames , Nyrop turned his back on the league again. He spent his last professional playing time in the 1982/83 season at the Cologne EC in the German ice hockey Bundesliga . He then retired from active professional sport for the second and last time at the age of 31 and successfully completed his previously started law studies with the title Juris Doctor in 1986 .

After more than nine years outside the ice hockey scene, Nyrop returned to the sport for the 1992/93 season and was hired as the head coach of the Knoxville Cherokees from the East Coast Hockey League . He left this after a disappointing season and then bought the franchise of the West Palm Beach Blaze from the Sunshine Hockey League , which he was also head coach. The US-American remained the owner and coach of the team for three years and won the championship in the form of the Sunshine Cup three times in a row with the team. In the summer of 1995 he sold the franchise again, but was still employed as a coach of the team that from then on competed under the name West Palm Beach Barracudas in the also renamed Southern Hockey League . However, Nyrop resigned from this post in September 1995 after he was diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer that had already spread to the liver and lungs . Nyrop died just three months after being diagnosed in late December 1995 at the age of 43 in Minneapolis . He was posthumously inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997 for his services to ice hockey in the United States .

International

For his home country, Nyrop took part in his first international tournament before he switched to the professional field. In the spring of 1974 he played with the national team of the United States in the 1974 B World Cup in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia . The team remained unbeaten in seven tournament games and made it to the A group for the following World Cup. As part of the World Cup, Nyrop was chosen as one of the two defenders in the tournament's All-Star Team.

Two years later, Nyrop represented the USA at the Canada Cup, which was held for the first time in 1976 . In five tournament appearances, the defender scored one goal and prepared another.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1973 WCHA Second All-Star Team
  • 1973 NCAA West First All-American Team
  • 1976 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1977 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1978 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1970/71 University of Notre Dame NCAA 30th 2 4th 6th 40
1971/72 University of Notre Dame NCAA 31 3 18th 21st 44
1972/73 University of Notre Dame NCAA 38 3 21st 24 46
1973/74 University of Notre Dame NCAA 33 9 29 38 44
1974/75 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 75 2 22nd 24 76 6th 0 5 5 0
1975/76 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 52 3 25th 28 30th - - - - -
1975/76 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 19th 0 3 3 8th 13 0 3 3 12
1976/77 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 74 3 19th 22nd 21st 8th 1 0 1 4th
1977/78 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 72 5 21st 26th 37 12 0 4th 4th 6th
1978/79 Canadiens de Montréal NHL not played because of law school
1979/80 Minnesota North Stars NHL not played because of law school
1980/81 Minnesota North Stars NHL not played because of law school
1981/82 Minnesota North Stars NHL 42 4th 8th 12 35 2 0 0 0 0
1982/83 Cologne EC Bundesliga 19th 3 2 5 8th
NCAA overall 132 17th 72 89 174
AHL total 127 5 47 52 106 6th 0 5 5 0
NHL overall 207 12 51 63 101 35 1 7th 8th 22nd

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1974 United States B-WM 1st place 7th 2 0 2 4th
1976 United States Canada Cup 5th place 5 1 1 2 0
Men overall 12 3 1 4th 4th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Montreal Canadiens Legends: Bill Nyrop. greatesthockeylegends.com, March 2011, accessed December 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nyrop, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nyrop, William Donald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1995
Place of death Minneapolis , Minnesota