Ron Chipperfield

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CanadaCanada  Ron Chipperfield Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 28, 1954
place of birth Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
Nickname The Magnificent Seven
size 180 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
number # 7
Shot hand Right
Draft
WHA Secret
Amateur Draft 		1974 , 2nd lap, 20th position
Vancouver Blazers
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 1st lap, 17th position
California Golden Seals
Career stations
1969-1970 Dauphin Kings
1970-1974 Brandon Wheat Kings
1974-1975 Vancouver Blazers
1975-1977 Calgary cowboys
1977-1980 Edmonton Oilers
1980-1981 Nordiques de Québec
1981-1984 HC Bolzano
CanadaCanada  Ron Chipperfield
Coaching stations
1984-1989 HC Bolzano
1989-1990 Asiago Hockey

Ronald James "Ron" Chipperfield (born March 28, 1954 in Brandon , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 83 games for the Edmonton Oilers and Nordiques de Québec in the course of his active career between 1969 and 1984 National Hockey League and 397 others for the Vancouver Blazers , Calgary Cowboys and Edmonton Oilers on the position of the center . Chipperfield celebrated his greatest successes at the end of his active career and then as a coach, when he was Italian champion five times with HC Bozen .

Career

Chipperfield first spent his junior career with the Dauphin Kings in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League , with whom he won the league championship in the 1969/70 season and thus took part in the Memorial Cup . He then returned to his native city of Brandon . There the striker played the following four years for the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Western Canada Hockey League . In his rookie year , Chipperfield already achieved 83 points scorer . He surpassed this value in the following two years with 112 and 113 points respectively. In addition, he received the WCHL Most Gentlemanly Player Award in both seasons . However, the attacker's most successful year was in his fourth and final season in the league. He scored 162 points, including 90 goals, after which he received both the Brownridge Trophy and the WCHL Player of the Year Award . As a result, Chipperfield was in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft in the first round in 17th place by the California Golden Seals from the National Hockey League and in the WHA Secret Amateur Draft 1974 in the second round in 20th position by the Vancouver Blazers from the world Hockey Association selected. In addition, he was in the provisional squad of the Canadian national team for the Summit Series 1974 , but ultimately he was not part of the final roster.

Since both leagues were in strong competition at that time, Chipperfield decided to start his professional career in the World Hockey Association. With the beginning of the 1974/75 season he went for the Vancouver Blazers on the ice, while his transfer rights in the NHL were given in the course of the season by the Golden Seals in exchange for George Pesut to the Philadelphia Flyers . In Vancouver, the center forward completed a successful first professional season with 39 points; due to the relocation of the franchise , he played for the Calgary Cowboys from the following game year . In Calgary, Chipperfield played the following two years and was one of the team's best scorers. After the franchise had to stop playing in the summer of 1977, the attacker switched to the Edmonton Oilers as a free agent for the 1977/78 season . At the Oilers, Chipperfield immediately advanced to the team's top scorer before being replaced by Wayne Gretzky in his second year in the jersey and unable to play all games due to injury.

After the 1978/79 season, the WHA was dissolved and the Edmonton Oilers were among the teams that were included in the NHL for the 1979/80 season . Before the NHL Expansion Draft in 1979 , the Oilers were awarded the transfer rights, so Chipperfield could stay with the team. As a result, he was named fourth team captain in Edmonton's franchise history. However, his tenure did not last a full season, since he was transferred to the Nordiques de Québec in March 1980 in exchange for goalkeeper Ron Low . For the Nordiques, however, the Canadian came to only 16 games by the summer of 1981, only four of them in the 1980/81 season .

Chipperfield then moved abroad in the summer of 1981 and joined HC Bozen from the Italian A1 series . At the end of his career, Chipperfield won the Italian championship three times in a row with the team bristling with legionnaires . In his first year he was also top scorer and top scorer in the league. After the 1983/84 season , Chipperfield ended his career at the age of 30 and subsequently became the head coach of the South Tyroleans. In the following three years he led the team to two more championship titles and a runner-up. In the summer of 1989 he resigned after four seasons and looked after the league competitor Asiago Hockey in the 1989/90 season , which he also led to the runner-up. Following this, the Canadian withdrew completely from the ice hockey business.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1982 Series A1 top scorer
  • 1982 Series A1 top scorer
  • 1983 Italian champion with HC Bozen
  • 1984 Italian champion with HC Bozen
  • 1985 Italian champion with HC Bozen (as head coach)
  • 1987 Italian runner-up with HC Bozen (as head coach)
  • 1988 Italian champion with HC Bozen (as head coach)
  • 1990 Italian runner-up with Asiago Hockey (as head coach)

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1969/70 Dauphin Kings MJHL 34 39 40 79 18th - - - - -
1970 Dauphin Kings Memorial Cup 6th 3 1 4th 0
1970/71 Brandon Wheat Kings WCHL 64 40 43 83 62 - - - - -
1971/72 Brandon Wheat Kings WCHL 63 59 53 112 29 11 8th 5 13 0
1972/73 Brandon Wheat Kings WCHL 59 72 41 113 63 6th 1 3 4th 2
1973/74 Brandon Wheat Kings WCHL 66 90 72 162 82 - - - - -
1974/75 Vancouver Blazers WHA 78 19th 20th 39 30th - - - - -
1975/76 Calgary cowboys WHA 75 42 41 83 32 10 5 4th 9 6th
1976/77 Calgary cowboys WHA 81 27 27 54 32 - - - - -
1977/78 Edmonton Oilers WHA 80 33 52 85 48 5 1 1 2 0
1978/79 Edmonton Oilers WHA 55 32 37 69 47 13 9 10 19th 8th
1979/80 Edmonton Oilers NHL 67 18th 19th 37 24 - - - - -
1979/80 Nordiques de Québec NHL 12 4th 4th 8th 8th - - - - -
1980/81 Rochester Americans AHL 6th 3 2 5 6th - - - - -
1980/81 Nordiques de Québec NHL 4th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1981/82 HC Bolzano Series A1 30th 78 50 128 40 6th 10 8th 18th 10
1982/83 HC Bolzano Series A1 32 78 58 136 54 - - - - -
1983/84 HC Bolzano Series A1 22nd 19th 24 43 14th 5 4th 8th 12 8th
WCHL overall 252 261 209 470 236 17th 9 8th 17th 2
WHA total 369 153 177 330 189 28 15th 15th 30th 14th
NHL overall 83 22nd 24 46 34 - - - - -
Series A1 overall 84 175 132 307 108 11 14th 16 30th 18th

( 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 Chipperfield, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chipperfield, Ronald James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandon , Manitoba