Joe Murphy (ice hockey player, 1967)
Date of birth | October 16, 1967 |
place of birth | London , Ontario , Canada |
size | 185 cm |
Weight | 86 kg |
position | Right wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1986 , 1st round, 1st position Detroit Red Wings |
Career stations | |
1984-1985 | Penticton Knights |
1985-1986 | Michigan State University |
1986-1989 | Detroit Red Wings |
1989-1992 | Edmonton Oilers |
1992-1996 | Chicago Blackhawks |
1996-1998 | St. Louis Blues |
1998-1999 | San Jose Sharks |
1999-2000 | Boston Bruins |
2000-2001 | Washington Capitals |
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Murphy (born October 16, 1967 in London , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 899 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Edmonton Oilers , Chicago Blackhawks , St Has played Louis Blues , San Jose Sharks , Boston Bruins and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League . The first-elected player of the 1986 NHL Entry Draft celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Edmonton Oilers by winning the Stanley Cup in 1990 .
Career
Joe Murphy, who was born in London in the Canadian province of Ontario and raised in nearby Newmarket , took his first steps on the ice there. In the course of his youth he moved to the Canadian west coast and played there for the Penticton Knights in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League . With the team he won the championship title in the 1984/85 season. From 1985 the striker played in the United States . There he attended Michigan State University because of his studies and ran parallel for their ice hockey team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In his rookie year, he won both the CCHA division title and the NCAA national college championship with the team. He also played a few games in the jersey of the Canadian national team after the end of the college season . In the 1986 NHL Entry Draft , which was not peppered with so many talent, he was selected as the overall first by the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League .
Immediately for the following season , the Red Wings brought their hopefuls into the squad. But except for five NHL games, Murphy spent most of the American Hockey League with the Adirondack Red Wings . In the 1987/88 season he seemed to have made the breakthrough, but the next season he was mostly transferred back to the farm team and won the Calder Cup there with Adirondack. Shortly after the start of the 1989/90 season , Detroit's management finally said goodbye to the hope that Murphy had drawn the big lot and gave him together with Petr Klíma , Adam Graves and Jeff Sharples for Jimmy Carson , Kevin McClelland and a five-round vote in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft to the Edmonton Oilers .
In the Oilers' jersey, Murphy won the Stanley Cup in the first season . The third season in Edmonton he finished with 82 points in 80 games, setting a personal record. After that season, the Oilers gave him to the Chicago Blackhawks . Murphy had not been able to agree on a new contract with the Oilers, so he did not play from the start of the season in October until February. Only with the transfer to the Blackhawks in exchange for Igor Kravchuk and Dean McAmmond did the Canadian return to the NHL. Due to an injury, he only got 19 points in his first year, but came back the following year with 70 points. The attacker stayed in Chicago for four years before joining the St. Louis Blues as a free agent in July 1996 . In the 1997/98 season he played only 37 games, after 27 of which the Blues gave him in exchange for Todd Gill to the San Jose Sharks . At the beginning of the 1999/2000 season , Murphy initially did not find a new team and was taken on probation by the New York Rangers in November 1999 , but a little later committed as a free agent by the Boston Bruins . They soon put him on the waiver , from where the Washington Capitals secured his services. After the 2000/01 season , in which he was suspended from the Capitals, the striker ended his active career at the age of 33 and almost 900 NHL appearances.
After the end of his career, Murphy found it difficult to find his way around due to the consequences of numerous concussions , alcohol and drug problems. In an August 2018 documentary on Canadian television broadcaster TSN , Murphy reported that despite having earned over $ 15 million in his NHL career, he was living homeless and destitute in Kenora .
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 1986 silver medal at the Junior World Championship
- 1986 Best assists in the Junior World Championship
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1984/85 | Penticton Knights | BCJHL | 51 | 68 | 84 | 152 | 92 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1985/86 | Michigan State University | CCHA | 35 | 24 | 37 | 61 | 50 | |||||||
1986/87 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 71 | 21st | 38 | 59 | 61 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 33 | ||
1986/87 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1987/88 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 6th | 5 | 6th | 11 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1987/88 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 50 | 10 | 9 | 19th | 37 | 8th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | ||
1988/89 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 47 | 31 | 35 | 66 | 66 | 16 | 6th | 11 | 17th | 17th | ||
1988/89 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 26th | 1 | 7th | 8th | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1989/90 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1989/90 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 62 | 7th | 18th | 25th | 56 | 22nd | 6th | 8th | 14th | 16 | ||
1990/91 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 80 | 27 | 35 | 62 | 35 | 15th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 14th | ||
1991/92 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 80 | 35 | 47 | 82 | 52 | 16 | 8th | 16 | 24 | 12 | ||
1992/93 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 19th | 7th | 10 | 17th | 18th | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
1993/94 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 80 | 31 | 39 | 70 | 111 | 6th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 25th | ||
1994/95 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 40 | 23 | 18th | 41 | 89 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 29 | ||
1995/96 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 70 | 22nd | 29 | 51 | 86 | 10 | 6th | 2 | 8th | 33 | ||
1996/97 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 75 | 20th | 25th | 45 | 69 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | ||
1997/98 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 27 | 4th | 9 | 13 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1997/98 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 10 | 5 | 4th | 9 | 14th | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20th | ||
1998/99 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 76 | 25th | 23 | 48 | 73 | 6th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4th | ||
1999/00 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 26th | 7th | 7th | 14th | 41 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 29 | 5 | 8th | 13 | 53 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
2000/01 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 14th | 1 | 5 | 6th | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
AHL total | 124 | 57 | 79 | 136 | 131 | 26th | 8th | 12 | 20th | 50 | ||||
NHL overall | 779 | 233 | 295 | 528 | 810 | 120 | 34 | 43 | 77 | 185 |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1986 | Canada | June World Cup | 7th | 4th | 10 | 14th | 2 | ||
Juniors overall | 7th | 4th | 10 | 14th | 2 |
( 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
- Joe Murphy at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Joe Murphy at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Murphy, Joe |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Murphy, Joseph Patrick (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , Ontario |