Ron Low

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CanadaCanada  Ron Low Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 21, 1950
place of birth Birtle , Manitoba , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 93 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 8th round, 103rd position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1967-1968 Winnipeg Jets
1968-1970 Dauphin Kings
1970-1972 Tulsa Oilers
Jacksonville Rockets
1972-1973 Toronto Maple Leafs
1973-1974 Tulsa Oilers
1974-1977 Washington Capitals
1977-1979 Detroit Red Wings
Kansas City Red Wings
1979-1980 Nordiques de Québec
Syracuse Firebirds
1980-1983 Edmonton Oilers
1983-1985 New Jersey Devils
1985-1986 Nova Scotia Oilers

Ronald Albert "Ron" Low (born June 21, 1950 in Birtle , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach . Between 1972 and 1985 he played 389 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Washington Capitals , the Edmonton Oilers and the New Jersey Devils . He then supervised the Oilers and the New York Rangers as head coach in the NHL and stood behind the gang in over 500 games.

Career

As a player

Beginnings

Ron Low spent his junior years with the Winnipeg Jets in the Western Canada Hockey League and with the Dauphin Kings in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL). With the Kings he won the championship of the MJHL in 1969 and 1970 and took part with the team in the elimination games of the Memorial Cup , but without reaching the final. He was then selected in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in 103rd position by the Toronto Maple Leafs .

For the 1970/71 season, the Canadian moved to the professional field and joined the Jacksonville Rockets from the Eastern Hockey League (EHL), where he was named Rookie of the Year in the Southern Division at the end of the season . He spent the following year mainly with the Tulsa Oilers in the Central Hockey League (CHL) before establishing himself for the 1972/73 season with the Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL). The goalkeeper played 42 games in his first year in the top division of North America, of which he won only twelve. As a result, he lost his regular place in the NHL squad of the Leafs to Doug Favell , Eddie Johnston and Dunc Wilson , so he spent the entire season 1973/74 in Tulsa and was appointed to the CHL Second All-Star Team .

NHL

The final leap into the NHL was made by Low through the league expansion of 1974, where he was selected by the newly formed Washington Capitals in the 1974 NHL Expansion Draft . In Washington, he promptly established himself as the first goalkeeper, but the team was hardly competitive in the first two seasons, so that he won only 14 of 91 games played in the first two seasons and each had a goalscoring well over 5.0. After three years, the Capitals surrendered the rights to him in August 1977, including a third-round vote for the 1979 NHL Entry Draft, to the Detroit Red Wings , who in turn gave Walt McKechnie a third-round vote in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft and a second-round vote. Sending voting rights in the 1979 draft to Washington. In his first year Jim Rutherford was a backup in the NHL, he returned to the Minors for his second year in the organization of the Red Wings and led the Kansas City Red Wings to 33 wins, so that he was named Most Valuable Player of the CHL and ins First All-Star Team was appointed.

About the NHL Expansion Draft 1979 , the goalkeeper then came to the Nordiques de Québec , which, however, gave him in March 1980 in exchange for Ron Chipperfield to the Edmonton Oilers . In Edmonton, Low was regularly on the ice as second goalkeeper for almost three years before he was transferred to the New Jersey Devils along with Jim McTaggart in February 1983 , with the Oilers receiving Lindsay Middlebrook and Paul Miller in return . After two more seasons with regular ice ages, the rest of his contract was paid out in the summer of 1985 (buy-out) , so that he returned to the Oilers' organization in September 1985 and joined their farm team , the Nova Scotia Oilers , in the American Hockey League (AHL) was hired as a player-coach. His NHL rights went to the Philadelphia Flyers through the waiver in November of the same year , without him ever becoming active for the organization. In total, he completed six games for Nova Scotia in the AHL before he declared his active career ended.

In total, Low had played 389 games during his NHL career and recorded 103 wins and four shutouts .

As a trainer

CanadaCanada  Ron Low
Coaching stations
1985-1989 Nova Scotia / Cape Breton Oilers
(Assistant & Head Coach)
1989-1995 Edmonton Oilers (assistant coach)
1995-1999 Edmonton Oilers
1999-2000 Houston Eros
2000-2002 New York Rangers
2004-2008 Ottawa Senators
(Assistant & Goalkeeping Coach)

After the end of his active career, Low continued to work as an assistant coach with the Nova Scotia Oilers, which he finally took over as head coach for the 1987/88 season and also looked after the oilers after the name was changed to Cape Breton the following year. In parallel, he acted as a goalkeeping coach with the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 1987 and was also immortalized on the trophy. For the season 1989/90 he was appointed assistant coach in Edmonton and led the team under head coach John Muckler to another Stanley Cup. For four years, Low was an assistant coach with the Oilers until he replaced George Burnett as head coach in the middle of the 1994/95 season . The Canadian led the Oilers' fortunes until 1999, leading the team into the second round of playoffs twice before being fired and replaced by Kevin Lowe .

Low then spent a year as the head coach and general manager of the Houston Eros in the International Hockey League before he came to the 2000/01 season with the New York Rangers to his second post as NHL head coach . His engagement with the Rangers ended after two years and without participation in the playoffs, but the Canadian was active as a scout for the organization for two more years . His last station marked the Ottawa Senators , for whom he also worked as a scout, goalkeeping coach and most recently in the 2007/08 season as an assistant coach.

As a result, Low retired from ice hockey, returned to his home in Dauphin and still runs a golf course.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

  • 1969 MJHL championship with the Dauphin Kings
  • 1970 MJHL championship with the Dauphin Kings
  • 1971 EHL Rookie of the Year (Southern Division)

As a trainer

  • 1987 Stanley Cup win with the Edmonton Oilers (as goalkeeping coach)
  • 1990 Stanley Cup win with the Edmonton Oilers (as assistant coach)

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Min. GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min. GT SO GTS Sv%
1967/68 Winnipeg Monarchs WCHL 16 960 92 0 5.75 - - - - - - - -
1968/69 Dauphin Kings MJHL Statistics not available
1969 Dauphin Kings Memorial Cup - - - - - - - - - 12 7th 5 730 55 0 4.52
1969/70 Dauphin Kings MJHL 33 2001 119 1 3.57 - - - - - - - -
1970 Dauphin Kings Memorial Cup - - - - - - - - - 6th 2 4th 293 26th 1 5.32
1970/71 Jacksonville Rockets EHL 49 2940 293 1 5.98 - - - - - - - -
1970/71 Tulsa Oilers CHL 4th 192 11 0 5.11 - - - - - - - -
1971/72 Richmond Robins AHL 1 1 0 0 60 2 0 2.00 - - - - - - - -
1971/72 Tulsa Oilers CHL 43 21st 18th 2 2428 135 1 3.34 8th 474 15th 1 1.90
1972/73 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 42 12 24 4th 2340 152 1 3.90 88.1 - - - - - - - -
1973/74 Tulsa Oilers CHL 56 23 23 8th 3213 169 1 3.16 - - - - - - - -
1974/75 Washington Capitals NHL 48 8th 36 2 2588 235 1 5.45 85.5 - - - - - - - -
1975/76 Washington Capitals NHL 43 6th 31 2 2285 208 0 5.46 85.4 - - - - - - - -
1976/77 Washington Capitals NHL 54 16 27 5 2910 188 0 3.88 88.1 - - - - - - - -
1977/78 Detroit Red Wings NHL 32 9 12 9 1814 102 1 3.37 88.6 4th 1 3 240 17th 0 4.25 87.9
1978/79 Kansas City Red Wings CHL 63 33 28 2 3795 244 0 3.86 5 1 4th 237 15th 0 3.80
1979/80 Syracuse Firebirds AHL 15th 5 9 1 905 70 0 4.64 - - - - - - - -
1979/80 Nordiques de Québec NHL 15th 5 7th 2 826 51 0 3.71 88.4 - - - - - - - -
1979/80 Edmonton Oilers NHL 11 8th 2 1 650 37 0 3.42 89.7 3 0 3 212 12 0 3.40 90.5
1980/81 Wichita wind CHL 2 0 2 0 120 10 0 5.00 - - - - - - - -
1980/81 Edmonton Oilers NHL 24 5 13 3 1258 93 0 4.44 85.6 - - - - - - - -
1981/82 Edmonton Oilers NHL 29 17th 7th 1 1554 100 0 3.86 87.4 - - - - - - - -
1982/83 Edmonton Oilers NHL 3 0 1 0 104 10 0 5.78 81.5 - - - - - - - -
1982/83 New Jersey Devils NHL 11 2 7th 1 605 41 0 4.07 88.0 - - - - - - - -
1983/84 New Jersey Devils NHL 44 8th 25th 4th 2211 161 0 4.37 85.8 - - - - - - - -
1984/85 New Jersey Devils NHL 26th 6th 11 4th 1326 85 1 3.85 86.4 - - - - - - - -
1985/86 Nova Scotia Oilers AHL 6th 1 5 0 299 24 0 4.82 - - - - - - - -
NHL overall 382 102 203 38 20465 1463 4th 4.29 86.9 7th 1 6th 452 29 0 3.85 89.2

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

NHL coaching statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U OT Pt space Sp S. N result
1994/95 Edmonton Oilers NHL 13 5 7th 1 - 11 5th, Pacific not qualified
1995/96 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 30th 44 8th - 68 5th, Pacific not qualified
1996/97 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 36 37 9 - 81 3rd, Pacific 12 5 7th Conference semifinals
1997/98 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 35 37 10 - 80 3rd, Pacific 12 5 7th Conference semifinals
1998/99 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 33 37 12 - 78 2nd, Northwest 4th 0 4th Conference quarterfinals
2000/01 New York Rangers NHL 82 33 43 5 1 72 4th, Atlantic not qualified
2001/02 New York Rangers NHL 82 36 38 4th 4th 80 4th, Atlantic not qualified
NHL overall 505 208 243 49 5 470 0 division title 28 10 18th 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Low, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Low, Ronald Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Birtle , Manitoba , Canada