Rick Dudley

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CanadaCanada  Rick Dudley Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 31, 1949
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1968-1969 St. Catharines Black Hawks
1969-1970 Iowa stars
1970-1971 Cleveland Barons
Flint Generals
1971-1973 Cincinnati Swords
1972-1975 Buffalo Sabers
1975-1979 Cincinnati stingers
1979-1981 Buffalo Sabers
1981 Winnipeg Jets
1981-1982 Fredericton Express

Richard Clarence "Rick" Dudley (born January 31, 1949 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach and current - functional . The left winger was active in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabers and Winnipeg Jets and in the World Hockey Association for the Cincinnati Stingers . Subsequently, as head coach, he supervised the Sabers and Florida Panthers , among others , but was mainly active as a functionary in numerous other NHL teams, including general manager of the Ottawa Senators , the Tampa Bay Lightning , the Florida Panthers and the Atlanta Thrashers . Since May 2018 he has been Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations at Carolina Hurricanes .

Career

As a player

Rick Dudley played in his youth for the Dixie Beehives , among other things , before he spent part of the 1968/69 season with the St. Catharines Black Hawks in the Ontario Hockey Association . Among other things, due to this late move to the highest junior league in his home province, the winger was not considered in any NHL amateur draft , so he then spent several years in minor leagues . During this time he played for the Iowa Stars from the Central Hockey League , the Cleveland Barons from the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Flint Generals from the International Hockey League (IHL), without appearing as a scorer or himself Recommended for the higher professional area. For the season 1971/72 he joined the Cincinnati Swords from the AHL, in which he henceforth maintained a significantly more aggressive style of play, so he recorded 272 penalty minutes, while he was also able to increase his offensive statistics. In the following year he got over 40 goals and assists in Cincinnati, while he won the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup with the Swords . In addition, the Canadian was appointed for the first time for six games in the National Hockey League (NHL) by the Swords' cooperation partner, the Buffalo Sabers .

With the beginning of the 1973/74 season, Dudley established himself in the NHL squad of the Sabers and in the following game year 1974/75 already achieved his career best by recording 70 scorer points in 78 games. In addition, he reached the final of the Stanley Cup with Buffalo in the 1975 playoffs , but lost to the Philadelphia Flyers (2-4). The attacker then returned to Cincinnati, where he joined the Stingers from the recently formed World Hockey Association (WHA). Dudley also established himself as a regular scorer in the WHA and was subsequently active in the NHL's competitive league for almost four years. When their end in the course of the 1978/79 season became apparent, however, he returned to the Buffalo Sabers in February 1979, with whom he ran for about two more years before he got to the Winnipeg Jets via the waiver in January 1981 . After seven appearances for the Fredericton Express from the AHL in the season 1981/82 Dudley declared his active career over. In total, he had completed 334 games in the NHL and scored 183 points, while in the WHA with 278 points from 274 games he even achieved an average of over 1.0 points per game.

As a trainer

CanadaCanada  Rick Dudley
Coaching stations
1982-1986 Carolina Thunderbirds
1986-1988 Flint Spirits
1988-1989 New Haven Nighthawks
1989-1991 Buffalo Sabers
1992-1993 San Diego Gulls
1993-1994 Phoenix Roadrunners
1994-1996 Detroit Vipers
2003-2004 Florida Panthers (interim)

After the end of his active career, Dudley bought the franchise of the Carolina Thunderbirds from the Atlantic Coast Hockey League for the 1982/83 season and served as their head coach and general manager for four years . In 1986 he took over the Flint Spirits from the IHL as head coach and was awarded the Commissioner's Trophy as the best coach in the league in 1988 , while he reached the Turner Cup final with the team and failed there at the Salt Lake Golden Eagles ( 2: 4). After a season with the New Haven Nighthawks in the AHL, the Canadian returned to the Buffalo Sabers for the 1989/90 season, where he succeeded head coach Ted Sator . He led the Sabers twice in the playoffs, retired in the first round and was dismissed after nine wins from 28 games in the 1991/92 season and replaced by John Muckler .

Then Dudley returned to the IHL and briefly looked after the San Diego Gulls and the Phoenix Roadrunners , before he took over as head coach and general manager of the Detroit Vipers in 1994 . At the Vipers he made a permanent change to management by handing over the role of coach to Steve Ludzik after two years , who led the team to win the Turner Cup the following year.

As a functionary

In the summer of 1998 Dudley was hired as general manager of the Ottawa Senators , where he took over from Pierre Gauthier . After only one season, in which the Senators won the Northeast Division , he was poached by the Tampa Bay Lightning , who sent Rob Zamuner to Ottawa as compensation . Dudley led the fate of the Lightning for almost three years before he was replaced by Jay Feaster in February 2002 and only a few months later took over the Florida Panthers in the same function . As General Manager of the Panthers, he fired head coach Mike Keenan a few games after the start of the 2003/04 season and acted as interim coach for about half the season before installing John Torchetti as his successor. However, Dudley himself was fired as general manager before the end of the season and again replaced by Mike Keenan.

Then Dudley worked from 2004 to 2009 in the organization of the Chicago Blackhawks worked as a consultant, Director of Player Personnel and most recently as assistant general manager Dale Tallon . For the 2009/10 season he moved to the Atlanta Thrashers , where he was assistant to General Manager Don Waddell for a year before taking over his position when Waddell took over the role of President. Both left the franchise when it moved to Winnipeg the following year . After a year as Director of Player Personnel with the Toronto Maple Leafs Dudley became the 2012/13 season by the Montreal Canadiens hired, where he most recently in the wake six years as assistant to the general manager and as Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations active was.

In May 2018, he was hired in this same role by the Carolina Hurricanes , which a little later installed Don Waddell as General Manager, with whom he had already worked in Atlanta.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1968/69 St. Catharines Black Hawks OHA 26th 8th 7th 15th 43 16 2 1 3 46
1969/70 Iowa stars CHL 26th 3 3 6th 36 11 0 3 3 4th
1970/71 Cleveland Barons AHL 16 1 0 1 2 - - - - - -
1970/71 Flint Generals IHL 15th 1 5 6th 30th - - - - - -
1971/72 Cincinnati Swords AHL 51 6th 23 29 272 9 0 4th 4th 58
1972/73 Cincinnati Swords AHL 64 40 44 84 159 15th 7th 15th 22nd 56
1972/73 Buffalo Sabers NHL 6th 0 1 1 -2 7th - - - - - -
1973/74 Buffalo Sabers NHL 67 13 13 26th ± 0 71 - - - - - -
1974/75 Buffalo Sabers NHL 78 31 39 70 +29 116 10 3 1 4th ± 0 26th
1975/76 Cincinnati stingers WHA 74 43 38 81 +5 156 - - - - - -
1976/77 Cincinnati stingers WHA 77 41 47 88 +25 102 4th 0 1 1 –7 7th
1977/78 Cincinnati stingers WHA 72 30th 41 71 -1 156 - - - - - -
1978/79 Cincinnati stingers WHA 47 17th 20th 37 +5 102 - - - - - -
1978/79 Buffalo Sabers NHL 24 5 6th 11 +11 2 3 1 1 2 +2 2
1979/80 Buffalo Sabers NHL 66 11 22nd 33 +12 58 12 3 0 3 -2 41
1980/81 Buffalo Sabers NHL 38 10 13 23 +7 10 - - - - - -
1980/81 Winnipeg Jets NHL 30th 5 5 10 -12 28 - - - - - -
1981/82 Fredericton Express AHL 7th 1 3 4th 30th - - - - - -
AHL total 138 48 70 118 463 24 7th 19th 26th 114
WHA total 270 131 146 277 +34 516 4th 0 1 1 –7 7th
NHL overall 309 75 99 174 +45 292 25th 7th 2 9 ± 0 69

( 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

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U OT Pt Pt% Place (division) Sp S. N result
1989/90 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 45 27 8th - 98 .613 2. ( Adams ) 6th 2 4th Conference quarterfinals
1990/91 Buffalo Sabers NHL 82 31 30th 19th - 81 .506 3. (Adams) 6th 2 4th Conference quarterfinals
1991/92 Buffalo Sabers NHL 28 9 15th 4th - 22nd .393 dismiss
2003/04 Florida panthers NHL 40 13 15th 9 3 38 .475 Interim trainer
NHL overall 228 98 87 40 3 239 .524 0 division title 12 4th 8th 0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Terrell Williams: Dudley Named Senior VP of Hockey Operations. nhl.com, May 1, 2018, accessed May 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dudley, Rick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dudley, Richard Clarence (full name); Dudley, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada