Phil Watson

Phil Watson
Date of birth	October 24, 1914
place of birth	Montréal , Québec , Canada
date of death	February 1, 1991
position	center
Career stations
1935-1943	New York Rangers
1943-1944	Montréal Canadiens
1944-1948	New York Rangers

Philip "Phil" Henri Watson (born October 24, 1914 in Montréal , Québec ; † February 1, 1991 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who worked for the New York Rangers and Montréal Canadiens from 1935 to 1948, among others played in the National Hockey League .

Career

Phil Watson began his career as a hockey player with the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League , where he received a contract as a free agent on October 27, 1935 . In his rookie year , the attacker made two assists in 24 games. In addition, he ran 22 games for the Philadelphia Ramblers from the Canadian-American Hockey League , for which he scored nine goals in 22 games and gave five assists. With the New York Rangers he won the prestigious Stanley Cup for the first time in the 1939/40 season . He was able to repeat this success in the 1943/44 season with the Montréal Canadiens from his hometown before returning to the Rangers, for whom he was in the NHL for another four years until 1948.

Following his active career, Watson was the head coach for the New York Rovers from the Quebec Senior Hockey League and later Eastern Hockey League between 1949 and 1951 . He then worked until 1954 in the same capacity for the Quebec Citadelles from the Ontario Hockey Association . Then the former NHL player paused a few years with ice hockey, before he supervised the Providence Reds from the American Hockey League in the 1960/61 season . He then took over the coaching position of Milt Schmidt in the NHL team of the Boston Bruins , where he was replaced by his predecessor at the beginning of the 1962/63 season due to unsuccessfulness - Watson won only 16 of 82 games with Boston. From 1964 to 1967, the two-time Stanley Cup winners coached the Buffalo Bisons and Quebec Aces in the AHL. During the 1972/73 season he worked again for the Philadelphia Blazers from the newly formed World Hockey Association before ending his career.

Achievements and Awards

• 1940 Stanley Cup win with the New York Rangers
• 1942 NHL Second All-Star Team
• 1944 Stanley Cup win with the Montréal Canadiens

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	13	590	144	265	409	542
Playoffs	8th	54	10	25th	35	67

Web links

• Phil Watson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Phil Watson at legendsofhockey.net (English)