Rob Murray

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CanadaCanada  Rob Murray Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 4th 1967
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 3rd round, 61st position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
1984-1987 Peterborough Petes
1987-1988 Fort Wayne Comet
1988-1991 Washington Capitals
Baltimore Skipjacks
1991-1994 Moncton Hawks
1994-1999 Springfield Falcons
1999-2000 Hamilton Bulldogs
2000-2001 Philadelphia Phantoms
2001 Springfield Falcons
2001-2002 Saint John Flames
2002-2003 Springfield Falcons

Robert Allan "Rob" Murray (born April 4, 1967 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 116 games for the Washington Capitals , Winnipeg Jets and Phoenix in the course of his playing career between 1984 and 2003 Coyotes in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Mainly Murray played in the American Hockey League , of which he has been a Hall of Fame member since 2017. He has been a coach since 2003 and has been the head coach of the Tulsa Oilers from the ECHL since the beginning of the 2017/18 season .

Career

Murray spent his junior career between 1984 and 1987 with the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey League . After the center forward in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft was selected in the third round in 85th place by the Washington Capitals from the National Hockey League , he spent his first professional season with the Fort Wayne Komets in the International Hockey League . The 1988/89 season Murray was in the squad of the Baltimore Skipjacks in the American Hockey League ; with the beginning of the following season he then commuted between the squad of the Skipjacks and the NHL squad of the capital club from Washington.

The attacker's time in Washington, DC ended with the 1991 NHL Expansion Draft , in which he was selected by the Minnesota North Stars . They transferred him to the Winnipeg Jets only one day after the draft and in return received a seven-round vote in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft . In the service of the Jets Murray was also active in the following years for the NHL squad and the Moncton Hawks farm team in the AHL. With the change of the cooperation partner, the Canadian played for the Springfield Falcons in the AHL from the 1994/95 season . A little later, his transfer rights changed to the Phoenix Coyotes after the franchise was relocated there from Winnipeg. The center played only 13 games for the Coyotes, but was otherwise a team captain until November 1999 for the Falcons in the AHL.

Shortly after the start of the 1999/2000 season , Murray was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers in the last year of his current contract in exchange for Éric Houde . There he was on the Hamilton Bulldogs farm team until the end of the season , before moving to the Philadelphia Flyers as a free agent in the summer of 2000 . This used him exclusively with the Philadelphia Phantoms in the AHL, but he also played again games for the Springfield Falcons, to which he was loaned in February 2001 until the end of the season. In the summer of 2001 Murray joined the Calgary Flames as a free agent , but also only came to the farm team Saint John Flames there . He finally spent his last professional playing time with the Springfield Falcons. After the 2002/03 season he ended his active career.

Following his professional career, Murray pursued a career as a coach. With the beginning of the 2003/04 season he was assistant coach of the Providence Bruins in the AHL under head coach Scott Gordon . He inherited this for the 2008/09 season in this position for the following three years. Murray then coached the Alaska Aces in the ECHL from 2011 to 2017 , which he led to winning the Kelly Cup in 2014 . He also received the John Brophy Award as the league's best coach in 2012. He shared this award with John Wroblewski . Since the beginning of the 2017/18 game year , the Canadian has been the main coach and director of hockey operations for the Tulsa Oilers from ECHL.

In 2017, Murray was inducted into the AHL Hall of Fame for his outstanding career in the league. Between 1988 and 2003 he completed 1,104 games for six different clubs, in which he scored 500 points scorer. Among other things, he was the team captain in four of the six franchises. His shirt number 23 was officially banned by the Springfield Falcons in 2007 and no longer given to any other player.

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 8th 107 4th 15th 19th 111
Playoffs 1 9 0 0 0 18th

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personal data
SURNAME Murray, Rob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, Robert Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario