Cliff Coroll

Cliff Coroll
Date of birth	October 1, 1946
place of birth	Canora , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1965-1968	University of Denver
1968-1969	Dallas Black Hawks
1969-1980	Chicago Black Hawks

Clifford Eugene Koroll (* 1. October 1946 in Canora , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and - coaches , who during his playing career from 1965 to 1980 among other 899 games for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League in position of the right winger has denied. He was also an assistant coach at the same club between 1980 and 1987.

Career

Koroll spent his junior years between 1965 and 1968 at the University of Denver , where he played parallel to his studies 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 . One of his team members was Keith Magnuson , with whom he was close friends until his accidental death in October 2003. In his three years at the university, the native Canadian completed 91 games and achieved 108 points scorer . He also won two divisional championships with the team and was also nominated for the Second All-Star Team in 1968.

The striker spent his first year as a professional in the 1968/69 season with the Dallas Black Hawks in the Central Hockey League , from where he joined the team of the Chicago Black Hawks from National Hockey the following season - together with Magnuson League made it. Koroll replaced the retired in the pre-season Kenny Wharram on the right wing position on the side of Stan Mikita and Dennis Hull . At their side, Koroll developed into a fixed point in the Black Hawks' squad in the course of the 1970s. After he had already scored 37 points in his rookie season , he rose to a career high of 59 by 1975. In 1971 and 1973 he reached the final of the Stanley Cup with the team , where the Black Hawks but the inferior team were. Total graduated Koroll until the end of the 1979/80 season eleven seasons in the jersey of the franchises of Chicago , where he scored six times 20 or more goals. Since the Black Hawks were in upheaval in the course of the 1979/80 game year and rejuvenated the squad, the attacker only played 47 games and ended his active career in the summer of 1980 at the age of 33.

Since his long-time companion Keith Magnuson took over the post of head coach of the Chicago Black Hawks for the 1980/81 season , Koroll received a job as an assistant coach for his ex-team following his retirement from active sports. He filled this post until the end of the 1986/87 season . These seven years were only interrupted by a brief interlude as head coach of the Milwaukee Admirals from the International Hockey League in the 1984/85 season , where he was replaced by Jim Pappin during the season due to unsuccessfulness . As a result of his coaching activity, Koroll and Magnuson were responsible for setting up an alumni department in the Chicago Blackhawks franchise, of which Koroll is the president. Between 2006 and 2015 he was inducted into the hockey hall of fame of his alma mater at the University of Denver and the state of Illinois and the sports hall of fame in his home province of Saskatchewan .

Achievements and Awards

• 1966 WCHA championship with the University of Denver
• 1968 WCHA championship with the University of Denver
• 1968 WCHA Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1965/66	University of Denver	WCHA		32	21st	10	31	23
1966/67	University of Denver	WCHA		25th	18th	19th	37	34
1967/68	University of Denver	WCHA		34	18th	22nd	40	54
1968/69	Dallas Black Hawks	CHL		67	28	34	62	50		11	2	8th	10	15th
1969/70	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		73	18th	19th	37	44		8th	1	4th	5	9
1970/71	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		72	16	34	50	85		18th	7th	9	16	18th
1971/72	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		76	22nd	23	45	51		8th	0	0	0	11
1972/73	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		77	33	24	57	38		16	4th	6th	10	6th
1973/74	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		78	21st	25th	46	32		11	2	5	7th	13
1974/75	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		80	27	32	59	27		8th	3	5	8th	8th
1975/76	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		80	25th	33	58	29		4th	1	0	1	0
1976/77	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		80	15th	26th	41	25th		2	0	0	0	0
1977/78	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		73	16	15th	31	19th		4th	1	0	1	0
1978/79	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		78	12	19th	31	20th		4th	0	0	0	0
1979/80	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		47	3	4th	7th	6th		2	0	0	0	2
NCAA overall				91	57	51	108	112
NHL overall				814	208	254	462	376		85	19th	29	48	67

( 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

• Cliff Koroll at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Cliff Koroll at eliteprospects.com (English)