Mike Murphy (ice hockey player, 1950)

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CanadaCanada  Mike Murphy Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 12, 1950
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 2nd round, 25th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1968-1970 Toronto Marlboros
1970-1971 Omaha Knights
1971-1973 St. Louis Blues
1973 New York Rangers
1973-1983 Los Angeles Kings

Michael John Murphy (born September 12, 1950 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach and functionary who worked for the St. Louis Blues , New York Rangers and Los Angeles from 1968 to 1983, among others Angeles Kings has played in the National Hockey League .

Career

Mike Murphy began his career as a hockey player with the Toronto Marlboros , for which he was active from 1968 to 1970 in the junior league Ontario Hockey Association . He was then selected in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in the second round as a total of 25th player by the New York Rangers . First, however, he played in the 1970/71 season for the Omaha Knights from the Central Hockey League . During this season he was elected to the second All-Star Team of the league and received the CHL Rookie of the Year award . In Omaha he began the following season , before he was given to the St. Louis Blues on November 15, 1971 together with Jack Egers and André Dupont in exchange for Gene Carr , Jim Lorentz and Wayne Connelly . With the St. Louis Blues he prevailed as a regular in the National Hockey League before he returned to the New York Rangers in March 1973 in exchange for Ab DeMarco . Even with his second attempt at the Rangers, he could not prevail at this, whereupon he was given to the Los Angeles Kings in November 1973 together with Sheldon Kannegiesser and Tom Williams in exchange for Gilles Marcotte and Réal Lemieux . There he was one of the leading players for the next ten years. The Canadian also represented his team in the 1980 NHL All-Star Game . Following the 1982/83 season , he ended his career at the age of 32.

For the 1984/85 season Murphy was hired as an assistant coach under Pat Quinn by the Los Angeles Kings. During the 1986/87 season , he replaced Quinn in the position of head coach and was defeated at the end of the season with his team in the first round of the playoffs for the Stanley Cup . At the beginning of the following season he was released after the Kings had a weak start. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as an assistant coach at NHL league rivals Vancouver Canucks . In the 1990/91 season he led the Milwaukee Admirals from the International Hockey League as head coach in the first playoff round of the Turner Cup . The following three years he spent as an assistant with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL, before he worked in the same position for two years for the league rivals New York Rangers. From 1996 to 1998 he returned as head coach to the Toronto Maple Leafs, but failed with his team in both seasons in the playoff qualification. His last position was in the 2000/01 season as assistant coach for the Ottawa Senators . In the following years he worked for the National Hockey League himself. Initially he was Vice President of Hockey Operations and from 2008 Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations.

International

For Canada , Murphy took part in the 1978 World Cup, where he won the bronze medal with his team.

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 12 831 238 318 556 514
Playoffs 11 66 13 23 36 54

family

Mike Murphy has three sons named Patrick , Ryan and Sean , who were as professional ice hockey players as his two brothers-in-law Daryl Evans and Vic Venasky . His nephew Julian Melchiori is also a professional ice hockey player.

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