Richard Mulhern
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
- 1974 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team
- 1975 Coupe du Président win with the Castors de Sherbrooke
- 1975 LHJMQ First All-Star Team
- 1976 Adams Cup win with the Tulsa Oilers
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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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 )
Web links
- Richard Mulhern at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Richard Mulhern at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Richard Mulhern at hockeydraftcentral.com
personal data | |
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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 |