Rick Ley

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CanadaCanada  Rick Ley Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 2, 1948
place of birth Orillia , Ontario , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 86 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1966 , 3rd round, 16th position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1964-1968 Niagara Falls Flyers
1968-1972 Toronto Maple Leafs
1972-1981 New England / Hartford Whalers

Richard Norman "Rick" Ley (born November 2, 1948 in Orillia , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player (defender) and coach who served from 1968 to 1981 for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League and the New England Whalers played in the World Hockey Association . His brother-in-law Don Lever was also active as a player and coach in the NHL.

Career

Ley played with Derek Sanderson , Jean Pronovost and Tom Webster at the Niagara Falls Flyers in the OHA during his junior years . The Toronto Maple Leafs selected him in the 1966 NHL Amateur Draft in the third round from 16th. In 1965 and 1968 he won the Memorial Cup with the Flyers .

After he started with the Tulsa Oilers in the Central Hockey League in the 1968/69 season , he made his debut in the NHL during the season with the Maple Leafs. Thanks to strong performances, he soon managed to earn a regular position.

For the 1972/73 season he was among the first players to follow the call of the newly formed World Hockey Association . He signed with the New England Whalers . There he met Tom Webster again, with whom he had played as a junior player. In the very first season he and his team won the Avco World Trophy and contributed three goals and four assists in the final series. At the 1974 Summit Series , he represented Canada against the Soviet Union . In the years that followed, he was one of the Whalers' defensive supports. In the last two years of the WHA he was elected to the All-Star Team and was awarded the Dennis A. Murphy Trophy in 1979 as the best defender of the WHA . The Maple Leafs tried to bring him back after the WHA dissolved, but the Whalers managed to bring him to their NHL team. He was the first team captain of the Whalers, but after 16 games in the 1980/81 season , he ended his active career.

The Whalers honored him by no longer awarding his jersey number 2. After moving to Carolina, the number was released again.

In the 1981-82 season he was assistant coach of the Hartford Whalers and the following year he took over the American Hockey League - the farm team , the Binghamton Whalers . As head coach He did not return to the NHL until the 1989/90 season, after four years with the Muskegon Lumberjacks in the International Hockey League , the Hartford Whalers brought him as head coach. He stayed there for two seasons and joined the Vancouver Canucks in 1991 as an assistant coach . After the team reached the Stanley Cup finals in 1994, Quinn handed over the position behind the gang to Ley for the 1994/95 season . Shortly before the end of the following season, Quinn replaced him again. Ley stayed with the Canucks as a scout for some time . 1998 hired the Toronto Maple Leafs Ley as an assistant coach, where he worked until 2006.

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 5 310 12 72 84 528
NHL playoffs 1 14th 0 2 2 20th
WHA regular season 6th 478 35 210 245 716
WHA playoffs 5 73 7th 33 40 142

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personal data
SURNAME Ley, Rick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ley, Richard Norman (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Orillia , Ontario