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Bryan Clarence Murray (born December 5, 1942 in Shawville , Québec , † August 12, 2017 in Ottawa , Ontario ) was a Canadian ice hockey coach and official.
Career
Bryan Murray grew up in Shawville as one of ten children. In his youth he played with several ice hockey teams , but could not recommend himself for a career as a professional player. He attended Macdonald College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue , where he also worked as a coach for the ice hockey team in addition to his studies. He later worked as a teacher in Shawville, opened a sports shop, and bought the local hotel.
He also worked as a coach in the CJHL and in 1979 got the job as head coach in the Canadian Junior League WHL , where he should coach the Regina Pats . With them he immediately won the WHL championship and played with the Pats in the final round of the Memorial Cup , the most important ice hockey trophy in Canada for 16 to 21 year olds.
In 1980 he became a professional ice hockey coach and took over the post of head coach with the Hershey Bears in the AHL , the farm team of the NHL team Washington Capitals . Under Murray, the Bears managed to deliver their best season in over 40 years and Murray was named minor league coach of the year by The Hockey News .
During the 1981/82 season , the Washington Capitals coach was sacked and Bryan Murray was his successor. Under his leadership, the team made it into the playoffs for the first time in its history in 1982/83 and in the following year the Capitals were able to increase by nine wins in the regular season. Murray received the Jack Adams Award for the NHL's best coach. In the next five years, the Capitals always made it into the playoffs, but when they weakened in the 1989/90 season and the qualification for the playoffs was in danger, it was decided to fire Murray.
At the beginning of the 1990/91 season he was hired by the Detroit Red Wings as a coach and general manager. He coached the team for three years and achieved good placements in the regular season, but in the playoffs came out in the second round at the latest. He was replaced by legendary coach Scotty Bowman , but stayed with the Red Wings as general manager for another year before leaving the franchise in 1994 . The big success did not happen for Murray in Detroit, but he helped in his four years with the team that it became one of the most dominant and successful teams of the next few years.
In the summer of 1994 he got a new job as General Manager with the Florida Panthers . The team had only had one season in the NHL and Murray was supposed to build a competitive team. And already in the 1995/96 season the Panthers were in the final of the Stanley Cup , where they were, however, inferior to the Colorado Avalanche . The following years were not so successful and only two participations in the playoffs jumped out. Murray served as head coach for 59 games during the 1997/98 season after Doug MacLean was fired. After many failures, Murray was eventually replaced by Bill Torrey during the 2000/01 season .
He coached the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the summer of 2001, but stayed in that position for only a year after the team offered him the senior vice president and general manager of the franchise. He accepted the offer and chose Mike Babcock as his successor in the coaching office. The team quickly achieved success, reaching the 2003 Stanley Cup final. In the summer of 2004, Murray surprised when he decided to step down from his Anaheim office to become the head coach of the Ottawa Senators .
His debut as coach of the Senators had to wait a little longer as the 2004/05 season was canceled due to the lockout . But the 2005/06 season was all the more successful. The Senators ranked first in the Eastern Conference in the regular season and ranked second in the entire NHL. In the playoffs, however, they failed in the second round.
In the 2006/07 season , he led the Ottawa Senators to their first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals. There he met his former team, the Anaheim Ducks. If the Senators' top strikers dominated the games in the first three rounds, they were almost completely eliminated in the final series and Anaheim won the final after five games.
Despite the success, the Senators parted ways with General Manager John Muckler just a few weeks later, and Murray took over as General Manager, but resigned his coaching post while his assistant coach John Paddock took over as head coach. Murray's first important acts were to renew contracts with star strikers Dany Heatley and Jason Spezza . Although the Senators got off to a very good start to the season and led the Eastern Conference for a long time, they lost the top position due to a lack of consistency and coach John Paddock was dismissed from his post in February 2008, whereupon Murray took over the team again for 18 games as head coach . For the new 2008/09 season he passed the coaching position back to Craig Hartsburg .
In April 2016, Murray resigned as General Manager of the Senators and handed the position over to his previous vice, Pierre Dorion . Murray resigned primarily for health reasons, as he had been diagnosed with incurable colorectal cancer in November 2014 . He succumbed to this on August 12, 2017 at the age of 74.
His brother Terry Murray was also a coach in the NHL.
Achievements and Awards
As a trainer
- Stanley Cup Final 2007
- Jack Adams Award 1984
- WHL championship 1980
As general manager
- Stanley Cup final in 1996 (with Florida ) and 2003 (with Anaheim )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former Senators general manager Bryan Murray passes away at age 74.nhl.com, August 12, 2017, accessed on August 12, 2017 .
1974 Shero | 1975 Pulford | 1976 Cherry | 1977 Bowman | 1978 Kromm | 1979 Arbor | 1980 Quinn | 1981 Berenson | 1982 watt | 1983 Tessier | 1984 Murray | 1985 Keenan | 1986 Sather | 1987 Demers | 1988 Demers | 1989 Burns | 1990 Murdoch | 1991 Sutter | 1992 Quinn | 1993 Burns | 1994 Lemaire | 1995 Crawford | 1996 Bowman | 1997 Nolan | 1998 Burns | 1999 Martin | 2000 Quenneville | 2001 Barber | 2002 Francis | 2003 Lemaire | 2004 Tortorella | 2005 - | 2006 Ruff | 2007 Vigneault | 2008 Boudreau | 2009 Julien | 2010 Tippett | 2011 Bylsma | 2012 Hitchcock | 2013 MacLean | 2014 Roy | 2015 Hartley | 2016 Despite | 2017 Tortorella | 2018 Gallant | 2019 despite
Head Coach: Ron Wilson (1993-1997) | Pierre Pagé (1997-1998) | Craig Hartsburg (1998-2000) | Guy Charron (2000-2001) | Bryan Murray (2001-2002) | Mike Babcock (2002-2005) | Randy Carlyle (2005-2011) | Bruce Boudreau (2011-2016) | Randy Carlyle (2016-2019) | Bob Murray (2019) | Dallas Eakins (since 2019)
General Manager: Jack Ferreira (1993–1997) | Pierre Gauthier (1997-2002) | Bryan Murray (2002-2004) | Al Coates (2004-2005) | Brian Burke (2005-2008) | Bob Murray (since 2008)
Head Coach:
Detroit Cougars & Detroit Falcons:
Art Duncan (1926–1927) |
Duke Keats (1927) |
Jack Adams (1927–…)
Detroit Red Wings: Jack Adams (… –1947) | Tommy Ivan (1947-1954) | Jimmy Skinner (1954-1958) | Sid Abel (1958–1968) | Bill Gadsby (1968–1969) | Sid Abel (1969-1970) | Ned Harkness (1970-1971) | Doug Barkley (1971) | Johnny Wilson (1971-1973) | Ted Garvin (1973) | Alex Delvecchio (1973–1975) | Doug Barkley (1975) | Alex Delvecchio (1975–1977) | Larry Wilson (1977) | Bobby Kromm (1977–1980) | Ted Lindsay (1980) | Wayne Maxner (1980-1982) | Billy Dea (1982) | Nick Polano (1982-1985) | Harry Neale (1985) | Brad Park (1985-1986) | Jacques Demers (1986–1990) | Bryan Murray (1990-1993) | Scotty Bowman (1993-2002) | Dave Lewis (2002-2005) | Mike Babcock (2005-2015) | Jeff Blashill (since 2015)
General Manager: Art Duncan (1926–1927) | Jack Adams (1927–1962) | Sid Abel (1962–1971) | Ned Harkness (1971-1974) | Alex Delvecchio (1974–1977) | Ted Lindsay (1977–1980) | Jimmy Skinner (1980-1982) | Jim Devellano (1982-1990) | Bryan Murray (1990-1994) | Jim Devellano & Scotty Bowman (1994-1997) | Ken Holland (1997-2019) | Steve Yzerman (since 2019)
Head Coach: Jim Anderson (1974–1975) | George Sullivan (1975) | Milt Schmidt (1975) | Tom McVie (1975-1978) | Danny Belisle (1978-1979) | Gary Green (1979-1981) | Roger Crozier (1981) | Bryan Murray (1981-1990) | Terry Murray (1990-1994) | Jim Schoenfeld (1994-1997) | Ron Wilson (1997-2002) | Bruce Cassidy (2002-2003) | Glen Hanlon (2003-2007) | Bruce Boudreau (2007-2011) | Dale Hunter (2011-2012) | Adam Oates (2012-2014) | Barry Despite (2014-2018) | Todd Reirden (2018-2020)
General Manager: Milt Schmidt (1974–1976) | Max McNab (1976-1981) | Roger Crozier (1981-1982) | David Poile (1982-1997) | George McPhee (1997-2014) | Brian MacLellan (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murray, Bryan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Murray, Bryan Clarence (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shawville , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2017 |
| Place of death | Ottawa , Ontario |