Ron Meighan

Ron Meighan
Date of birth	May 26, 1963
place of birth	Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1981 , 1st round, 13th position Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
1979-1982	Niagara Falls Flyers
1982	Minnesota North Stars North Bay Centennials
1982-1983	Pittsburgh Penguins
1983-1984	Baltimore Skipjacks

Ronald James "Ron" Meighan (born May 26, 1963 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 48 games for the Minnesota North Stars and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League in the course of his active career between 1979 and 1984 has denied on the position of defender . Meighan, who was selected in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 , ended his active career after three professional seasons at the age of 21 and is considered one of the most disappointing elections in NHL history due to his early selection in the draft.

Career

Meighan began his junior career for the 1979/80 season with the Niagara Falls Flyers in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League , with whom he ran up from the following season in the Ontario Hockey League . The defender developed into an outstanding player at his position over the course of three years, and after finishing 13th overall in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft in the first round by the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League , he was named at the end of the 1981 season / 82 was awarded the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the best defender of the OHL . He won the election in front of Al MacInnis , before whom he had also been selected in the draft of the previous year and with whom he was together in the First All-Star Team of the OHL. For the award, Meighan collected 72 scorer points in 62 games.

His achievements brought the 19-year-old already at the end of the 1981/82 season a call to the Minnesota NHL squad, where he played seven games during the rest of the season. In the summer of 1982 he was sent back to the OHL. He moved within the league to the North Bay Centennials , for which he completed 29 games at the start of the season. In the NHL, meanwhile, his transfer rights were transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins in late October 1982 . With him also moved Anders Håkansson and Minnesota's first-round suffrage in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft to Pittsburgh, while George Ferguson and Pittsburgh's first-round suffrage of the same draft were sent to Minnesota.

From the Pittsburgh Penguins Meighan was soon ordered into the NHL, so that he completed there in the remainder of the 1982/83 season another 41 games. Since the management of the Penguins was not satisfied with his yield of eight points, the defender found himself in the 1983/84 season in Pittsburgh's farm team in the American Hockey League , the Baltimore Skipjacks . He spent the entire playing year in the AHL and came up with 20 scorer points in 75 missions, whereupon he declared his career at the age of 21 for over.

Achievements and Awards

• 1982 Max Kaminsky Trophy
• 1982 OHL First All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1979/80	Niagara Falls Flyers	OMJHL		61	3	10	13	20th		10	0	0	0	6th
1980/81	Niagara Falls Flyers	OHL		63	8th	27	35	92		12	0	0	0	14th
1981/82	Niagara Falls Flyers	OHL		58	27	41	68	85		4th	0	4th	4th	9
1981/82	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		7th	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	North Bay Centennials	OHL		29	19th	22nd	41	30th		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		41	2	6th	8th	16		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Baltimore Skipjacks	AHL		75	4th	16	20th	36		-	-	-	-	-
O (MJ) HL total				211	57	100	157	227		26th	0	4th	4th	29
NHL overall				48	3	7th	10	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 )

Web links

• Ron Meighan at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Ron Meighan at eliteprospects.com (English)