Randy Cunneyworth

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CanadaCanada  Randy Cunneyworth Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 10, 1961
place of birth Etobicoke , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1980 , 8th lap, 167th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1979-1981 Ottawa 67's
1981-1985 Buffalo Sabers
Rochester Americans
1985-1989 Pittsburgh Penguins
1989 Winnipeg Jets
1989-1994 Hartford Whalers
1994 Chicago Blackhawks
1994-1998 Ottawa Senators
1998-2000 Buffalo Sabers
Rochester Americans

Randy William Cunneyworth (born May 10, 1961 in Etobicoke , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach . During his professional career, which lasted from 1981 to 2000, the left winger completed over 900 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Pittsburgh Penguins , the Hartford Whalers and the Ottawa Senators , which he also led as team captain. In addition, his playing and coaching careers are particularly linked to the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League , where he worked in both functions for almost 15 years. Furthermore, Cunneyworth supervised the Canadiens de Montréal from the NHL in the 2011/12 season as interim head coach.

Career

As a player

Randy Cunneyworth played for the Dixie Beehives in his youth , before joining the Ottawa 67’s for the 1979/80 season. After a season in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL), he was considered in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in 167th position by the Buffalo Sabers , but he did not make his breakthrough in junior ice hockey until the following year, when he was in for the 67's the now renamed Ontario Hockey League (OHL) came in 67 games to 128 scorer points . He then made his debut with one game each for the Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League (NHL) and for their farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League (AHL). As a result, the attacker did not succeed in establishing himself in the NHL squad of the Sabers, so that he - apart from 20 missions in the 1981/82 season - came up exclusively for the Americans in the AHL and the 1983 playoffs with the team Calder Cup won. After four years in Buffalo, the Canadian decided not to sign a new contract with the Sabers and to attend the Pittsburgh Penguins training camp . Due to his status as a restricted free agent , the Penguins could not commit him directly, otherwise they would have had to pay compensation to Buffalo in the form of draft voting rights. To avoid this, an agreement was reached in October 1985 with a third party, the Edmonton Oilers , on a larger swap: Pittsburgh received Cunneyworth and at the same time acted as a middleman in the swap between Mike Moller (to Edmonton) and Pat Hughes (to Buffalo) the Oilers and Sabers.

With the Penguins, Cunneyworth promptly worked out a regular place and at the same time established himself as a regular scorer in the NHL, so he increased his personal statistics from year to year to his career best of 74 points 71 games in the 1987/88 season. After a significantly weaker season in 1988/89, however, the Penguins gave him in June 1989, along with Rick Tabaracci and Dave McLlwain, to the Winnipeg Jets , with Pittsburgh receiving Jim Kyte , Andrew McBain and Randy Gilhen in exchange . The Canadian was only active for just under half a season for the Jets, however, as he was transferred to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for Paul MacDermid in December of the same year . Hartford Cunneyworth came in the next five years, however, only relatively irregularly used - including two missions for their AHL farm team, the Springfield Indians - so that it in March 1994, including Gary Suter and a third round voting rights for the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 to the Chicago Blackhawks was transferred. In return, František Kučera and Jocelyn Lemieux received these .

In Chicago, the winger ended the 1993/94 season, but received no further contract from the Blackhawks, so he joined the Ottawa Senators as a free agent in July 1994 . The franchise , founded only two years earlier, made the now 33-year-old directly the new team captain , an office that Cunneyworth should fill four seasons. Also as a free agent, the Canadian returned to the Buffalo Sabers in August 1998, where he was again mainly used by the Rochester Americans. In their jersey he took part in the AHL All-Star Classic 2000, but suffered a knee injury in February of the same year and ended his active career as a result after the 1999/00 season. In addition, after the end of this season he was honored with the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award of the AHL for his sportiness and dedication.

Overall, Cunneyworth completed 911 games in the NHL and scored 428 points; there were also 446 appearances at 281 points in the AHL.

As a trainer

Directly at the end of his active career, Cunneyworth took over the position of head coach at Rochester Americans, which he was in charge of for eight years. During this time he won the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy as the best team of the regular season with the team in 2005 , before he was also honored with the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award as the best AHL coach of the season in the same year . After the 2007/08 season he left the Americans and joined the Atlanta Thrashers from the NHL, for which the Canadian was assistant to head coach John Anderson for two years . After the entire coaching team was dismissed there in April 2010, Cunneyworth returned to the AHL and took over the Hamilton Bulldogs as head coach. After only one year, however, he already rose to the coaching staff of their NHL cooperation partner, the Canadiens de Montréal . As an assistant to Jacques Martin , he only worked for a few months since Martin was fired in December 2011 and Cunneyworth took over the Canadiens on an interim basis. These personalities caused some controversy as he became the first Canadiens coach since Al MacNeil (1971) to not speak French . After even government officials publicly announced that the Canadiens had to be trained by a francophone coach, Cunneyworth was returned to his role as assistant coach after the end of the season and replaced by Michel Therrien . This in turn released the Canadian after just one month.

After a one-year hiatus, Cunneyworth returned to the Buffalo Sabers for the 2013/14 season, where he then worked as a scout (2013/14) and in player development ( development coach ; 2014/15 and 2016/17). In the meantime, in the 2015/16 season, he had also taken over the Rochester Americans again as head coach.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1979/80 Ottawa 67's OMJHL 63 16 25th 41 145 11 0 1 1 13
1980/81 Ottawa 67's OHL 67 54 74 128 240 15th 5 8th 13 35
1980/81 Rochester Americans AHL 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - - -
1980/81 Buffalo Sabers NHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
1981/82 Rochester Americans AHL 57 12 15th 27 86 9 4th 0 4th 30th
1981/82 Buffalo Sabers NHL 20th 2 4th 6th -3 47 - - - - - -
1982/83 Rochester Americans AHL 78 23 33 56 111 16 4th 4th 8th 35
1983/84 Rochester Americans AHL 65 18th 17th 35 85 17th 5 5 10 55
1984/85 Rochester Americans AHL 72 30th 38 68 148 5 2 1 3 16
1985/86 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 75 15th 30th 45 +12 74 - - - - - -
1986/87 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 79 26th 27 53 +14 142 - - - - - -
1987/88 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 71 35 39 74 +13 141 - - - - - -
1988/89 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 70 25th 19th 44 -22 156 11 3 5 8th -1 26th
1989/90 Winnipeg Jets NHL 28 5 6th 11 –7 34 - - - - - -
1989/90 Hartford Whalers NHL 43 9 9 18th -4 41 4th 0 0 0 -1 2
1990/91 Springfield Indians AHL 2 0 0 0 5 - - - - - -
1990/91 Hartford Whalers NHL 32 9 5 14th –6 49 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1991/92 Hartford Whalers NHL 39 7th 10 17th -5 71 7th 3 0 3 ± 0 9
1992/93 Hartford Whalers NHL 39 5 4th 9 -1 63 - - - - - -
1993/94 Hartford Whalers NHL 63 9 8th 17th -2 87 - - - - - -
1993/94 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 16 4th 3 7th +1 13 6th 0 0 0 -1 8th
1994/95 Ottawa Senators NHL 48 5 5 10 -19 68 - - - - - -
1995/96 Ottawa Senators NHL 81 17th 19th 36 -31 130 - - - - - -
1996/97 Ottawa Senators NHL 76 12 24 36 –7 99 7th 1 1 2 -3 10
1997/98 Ottawa Senators NHL 71 2 11 13 -14 63 6th 0 1 1 ± 0 6th
1998/99 Rochester Americans AHL 52 10 18th 28 +19 55 20th 3 14th 17th +7 58
1998/99 Buffalo Sabers NHL 14th 2 2 4th +1 0 3 0 0 0 -1 0
1999/00 Rochester Americans AHL 52 8th 16 24 ± 0 81 - - - - - -
OMJHL / OHL total 130 70 99 169 385 26th 5 9 14th 48
AHL total 379 101 138 239 573 67 18th 24 42 194
NHL overall 866 189 225 414 -80 1280 45 7th 7th 14th –7 61

( 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 )

NHL coaching statistics

team season regular season Play-offs
Games S. N OTL Pt space S. N result
Canadiens de Montréal 2011/12 50 18th 23 9 45 5. ( Northeast ) - - not qualified
total 50 18th 23 9 45 0 division title - - 0 Stanley Cups

S = victories; N = defeats; OTL = defeat in overtime or shootout ; Pt = points

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Randy Cunneyworth at hockeydraftcentral.com, accessed June 27, 2018
  2. ↑ Official: Canadiens need French speaker. espn.com, December 20, 2011, accessed October 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Cunneyworth, Randy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cunneyworth, Randy William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Etobicoke , Ontario , Canada