Marty Wilford

Marty Wilford
Date of birth	April 17, 1977
place of birth	Cobourg , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1995 , 6th round, 149th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1994-1997	Oshawa Generals
1997	Columbus Chill
1997-1999	Indianapolis Ice
1999-2000	Houston Eros
2000-2001	Norfolk Admirals
2001-2002	St. John's Maple Leafs
2002-2005	Norfolk Admirals
2005-2006	Manchester monarchs
2006-2007	Iowa stars
2007-2008	Hamburg Freezers
2008-2010	Iserlohn Roosters
2010-2011	SHC Fassa

Marty Wilford (born April 17, 1977 in Cobourg , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach , who played primarily in the American Hockey League during his playing career . Since May 2018 he has been an assistant coach at the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League .

Career

Wilford began his career in 1994 with the Oshawa Generals in the Canadian Junior League OHL . Already after his first year höchstklassigster in Canada's junior league was back in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 by the Chicago Blackhawks selected in the sixth round at the 149th place, but remained two more years in the OHL and won in 1997 with his team the championship . The Canadian was also the best-scoring defender and second-best scorer on his team.

In the following season Marty Wilford signed his first professional contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, but initially played four years for their farm teams Columbus Chill in the East Coast Hockey League , Indianapolis Ice and Cleveland Lumberjacks in the IHL and in the AHL for the newly founded Norfolk Admirals . In the 2001/02 season, the Blackhawks transferred Wilford to the Toronto Maple Leafs , where he played on the farm team St. John's Maple Leafs . Towards the end of the season, the defender was again part of a change deal, this time to the Nashville Predators , who first used him with the Milwaukee Admirals . After a few games, the Canadian finally moved to the Hartford Wolf Pack . The following three years Wilford played again with the Norfolk Admirals, where he was the most attacking defender in every season and to this day holds the team record for the most assists by an Admirals player. For the 2005/06 season , the Canadian's contract ran out, so he moved to the Manchester Monarchs as a free agent . A year later, Wilford joined the Iowa Stars .

For the 2007/08 season , the Canadian signed a contract with the Hamburg Freezers from the German Ice Hockey League , where he also played offensively and was fourth-best defender in the league. Since the beginning of the 08/09 season , Wilford has been on the ice for the Iserlohn Roosters , where he signed a two-year contract. In his first season in the Sauerland , he was the Roosters defender with the best points, but could not qualify for the play-offs with them. A year later he formed with Mark Ardelan , with whom he played in the AHL from 2005 to 2007, the Iserlohn's first defender pair. In addition, both were the Roosters' strongest offensive defenders. They were also able to convince in their defensive work, with only four teams conceding fewer goals in the first half of the season. In the further course of the season, the team's performance declined, so that again only eleventh place was achieved. Wilford, on the other hand, became the league's best-scoring defender and set a new club record when he gave at least one assist in ten games in a row. After the end of the season, the Roosters announced the Canadian's departure. In September 2010, the Canadian signed a contract with SHC Fassa from the Italian A1 series .

After the 2010/11 season, Wilford ended his playing career and was appointed assistant coach at the Syracuse Crunch together with Brad Lauer in July 2011 . After the Anaheim Ducks had concluded a multi-year cooperation with the Norfolk Admirals in June 2012 , Wilford continued to work for their AHL farm team as an assistant coach. In the same position, he then worked for the new farm team, the San Diego Gulls , before he was promoted to the new assistant coach of the Anaheim Ducks in May 2018.

Achievements and Awards

• 1997 OHL Second All-Star Team
• 1997 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Oshawa Generals

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1994/95	Oshawa Generals	OHL		63	1	6th	7th	95		7th	1	1	2	4th
1995/96	Oshawa Generals	OHL		65	3	24	27	107		5	0	1	1	4th
1996/97	Oshawa Generals	OHL		62	19th	43	62	126		16	2	18th	20th	28
1997/98	Columbus Chill	ECHL		46	8th	27	35	123		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		26th	0	4th	4th	16		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		80	3	13	16	116		7th	0	1	1	16
1999/00	Cleveland Lumberjacks	IHL		7th	0	3	3	24		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Houston Eros	IHL		45	0	9	9	30th		11	2	2	4th	18th
2000/01	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	7th	41	48	102		9	1	5	6th	8th
2001/02	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		60	4th	21st	25th	70		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		8th	1	3	4th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		9	0	2	2	2		10	3	3	6th	4th
2002/03	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	13	35	48	87		9	0	3	3	16
2003/04	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		80	5	35	40	67		8th	0	3	3	18th
2004/05	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		78	7th	30th	37	80		6th	0	4th	4th	15th
2005/06	Manchester monarchs	AHL		79	5	36	41	81		7th	0	3	3	19th
2006/07	Iowa stars	AHL		65	5	25th	30th	72		12	0	2	2	18th
2007/08	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		56	8th	34	42	70		8th	0	3	3	20th
2008/09	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		52	5	26th	31	72		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		55	3	38	41	126		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	SHC Fassa	Series A1		39	3	23	26th	54		4th	1	1	2	33
OHL total				190	23	73	96	328		28	3	20th	23	36
IHL total				158	3	29	32	186		18th	2	3	5	34
AHL total				539	47	228	275	573		61	4th	23	27	98
DEL total				163	16	98	114	268		8th	0	3	3	20th
Series A1 overall				39	3	23	26th	54		4th	1	1	2	33

( 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

• Marty Wilford at hockeydb.com (English)
• Marty Wilford at eurohockey.com
• Marty Wilford at eliteprospects.com (English)