Richard Mulhern

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CanadaCanada  Richard Mulhern Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 1, 1955
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1975 , 1st lap, 8th position
Atlanta Flames
WHA Amateur Draft 1975 , 1st round, 15th position
Houston Eros
Career stations
1973-1975 Castors de Sherbrooke
1975-1976 Tulsa Oilers
1976-1979 Atlanta Flames
1979-1980 Los Angeles Kings
1980 Toronto Maple Leafs
Dallas Black Hawks
1980-1981 Winnipeg Jets

Richard Sidney Mulhern (born March 1, 1955 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 310 games for the Atlanta Flames , Los Angeles Kings , Toronto Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets in the course of his active career between 1973 and 1981 of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the position of defender .

Career

Mulhern spent a very successful junior period between 1973 and 1975 with the Castors de Sherbrooke in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ). After he first attended Boston University from the fall of 1973 , but had not played ice hockey for the university team there, he joined the Castors during the 1973/74 season after his return to Canada. In his rookie year , the offensive defender collected 45 scorer points in 40 games and was appointed to the league's Second All-Star Team. He doubled the value of 45 points in the following season, for which he needed 70 missions. In addition, he let another 20 points follow in 13 playoff games, when Sherbrooke, led by Claude Larose , won the Coupe du Président in a dominant manner . Mulhern was also elected to the League's First All-Star Team and took part with the team in the prestigious Memorial Cup . He was then selected in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft in eighth overall position by the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Likewise, the Houston Eros pulled him from the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was competing with the NHL at the time, also in 15th place in the first round.

In the summer of 1975 Mulhern was equipped with a professional contract by the Atlanta Flames and was at the start of the 1975/76 season in Atlanta's NHL squad. Since the young defender remained pointless in the first six missions, he was then sent to the Tulsa Oilers farm team in the Central Hockey League (CHL), where the season came to a forgiving conclusion by winning the Adams Cup . With the beginning of the game year 1976/77 the Canadian was then permanently in the Flames' squad. He collected 32 scorer points in the first 43 games and thus drew his first comparison with Bobby Orr . In the following 36 games, however, he was directly involved in only twelve more goals and subsequently the comparisons made proved to be unfounded, as he never nearly reached the 44 points from his first year in the league. In January 1979, the Flames parted ways with their former draft election in a transfer deal. Together with a second-round suffrage in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft , it was given to the Los Angeles Kings , who sent Bob Murdoch as compensation and also a second-round suffrage of the same draft to Atlanta.

In the service of the Kings, however, the defender was only 13 months, in which he only ran 52 times for the franchise . Due to a back operation in May 1979, he was in the first half of the 1979/80 season only sporadically in the squad of the Kings and was selected in February 1980 on the waiver list by the Toronto Maple Leafs , who thus took over his current contract. They kept mulhers busy until the end of the season. At the start of the 1980/81 season they sent him to the CHL to their cooperation partner Dallas Black Hawks , where he was on the ice 20 times by the beginning of December 1980. He was then sold to the Winnipeg Jets , which he returned to the NHL. After 19 NHL appearances until the end of the season, Mulhern ended his active career in the summer of 1981 at the age of 26.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1973/74 Castors de Sherbrooke LHJMQ 40 8th 37 45 96 - - - - -
1974/75 Castors de Sherbrooke LHJMQ 70 26th 64 90 142 13 2 18th 20th 19th
1975 Castors de Sherbrooke Memorial Cup 3 1 2 3 16
1975/76 Tulsa Oilers CHL 56 7th 26th 33 84 9 1 6th 7th 6th
1975/76 Atlanta Flames NHL 12 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
1976/77 Atlanta Flames NHL 79 12 32 44 80 3 0 2 2 5
1977/78 Atlanta Flames NHL 79 9 23 32 47 2 0 1 1 0
1978/79 Atlanta Flames NHL 37 3 12 15th 22nd - - - - -
1978/79 Los Angeles Kings NHL 36 2 9 11 23 1 0 0 0 0
1979/80 Los Angeles Kings NHL 15th 0 3 3 16 - - - - -
1979/80 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 26th 0 10 10 11 1 0 0 0 0
1980/81 Dallas Black Hawks CHL 20th 7th 11 18th 16 - - - - -
1980/81 Winnipeg Jets NHL 19th 0 4th 4th 14th - - - - -
1980/81 Tulsa Oilers CHL 5 2 3 5 0 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 110 34 101 135 238 13 2 18th 20th 19th
CHL total 81 16 40 56 98 9 1 6th 7th 6th
NHL overall 303 27 90 120 217 7th 0 3 3 5

( 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 Mulhern, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mulhern, Richard Sidney (full name); Mulhern, Rich; Mulhern, Rick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta , Canada