Joe Murphy (ice hockey player, 1967)

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CanadaCanada  Joe Murphy Ice hockey player
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

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
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
1986 Canada June World Cup 2nd place, silver 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 )

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personal data
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