Ron Murphy

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Ron Murphy
Date of birth April 10, 1933
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
date of death March 6, 2014
Place of death Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1950-1953 Guelph Biltmores
1953-1957 New York Rangers
1957-1964 Chicago Black Hawks
1964-1966 Detroit Red Wings
1966-1970 Boston Bruins

Robert Ronald "Ron" Murphy (born April 10, 1933 in Hamilton , Ontario , † March 6, 2014 in Ontario) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach , who in the course of his active career between 1950 and 1970, among other things, 942 games for the New York Rangers , Chicago Blackhawks , Detroit Red wings and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger has denied. With both the Chicago Black Hawks in 1961 and the Boston Bruins in 1970 , Murphy won the Stanley Cup .

Career

Murphy spent his junior years with the Guelph Biltmores in the Ontario Hockey Association between 1950 and 1953 . There the striker established himself as a profitable scorer and was instrumental in winning the Memorial Cup in 1952 . In addition, he contributed 20 points scorer in twelve games. Already in the 1951/52 season Murphy had made his professional debut in the jersey of the Cincinnati Mohawks from the American Hockey League , but spent until the end of the 1952/53 season in the junior division in Guelph.

After he had been contacted in the previous year by the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League , the Canadian was committed by the Rangers during the 1952/53 season and spent the following four seasons there. This time was only interrupted in the 1953/54 season , when he was posted from management to the Saskatoon Quakers in the Western Hockey League after he had an argument with Bernie Geoffrion of the Canadiens de Montréal , in which Geoffrion had the jaw had broken. In the meantime, Murphy played a more balanced role with the Rangers than in the junior division. His scoring qualities were less in demand and instead concentrated more on the defensive game.

In June 1957, Murphy's time with the New York Rangers ended and he was given to the Chicago Black Hawks in exchange for Hank Ciesla . There the attacker went on the ice for the following seven seasons and celebrated with the team at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1961, winning the Stanley Cup - the first since 1938 . Murphy moved from Chicago to the Detroit Red Wings in June 1964 with Autry Erickson in exchange for Art Stratton , John Miszuk and Ian Cushenan . With the Red Wings, however, Murphy only stayed a good one and a half years, since he was given to the Boston Bruins in February 1966 together with Bill Lesuk and Gary Doak and Steve Atkinson after the end of the game year . In return, these were given to Dean Prentice and Leo Boivin .

Murphy's early years in Boston were marked by numerous injuries, so that between 1966 and 1968 he played only 51 of a possible 144 games and toyed with the idea of ​​resigning. Nevertheless, the attacker returned stronger in the 1968/69 season and completed the most successful game year of his 17-year NHL career to date with Ken Hodge and Phil Esposito with 54 points. After the following game year, in which he played only 20 games and at the end of which the Bruins won the Stanley Cup, Murphy ended his active career at the age of 37.

Immediately after his retirement, Murphy hit a short-lived coaching career when he took over the head coach of the Kitchener Rangers from the Ontario Hockey League during the 1970/71 season . The engagement ended at the end of the following season . Then he ran a hotel . Murphy passed away in March 2014 a few weeks before his 81st birthday.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1949/50 Guelph Biltmores OHA 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1950/51 Guelph Biltmores OHA 54 44 44 88 38 4th 2 1 3 2
1951/52 Guelph Biltmores OHA 51 58 58 116 36 10 8th 7th 15th 2
1951/52 Cincinnati Mohawks AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1952 Guelph Biltmores Memorial Cup 12 13 7th 20th 4th
1952/53 Guelph Biltmores OHA 45 39 42 81 52 - - - - -
1952/53 New York Rangers NHL 15th 3 1 4th 0 - - - - -
1953/54 New York Rangers NHL 27 1 3 4th 20th - - - - -
1953/54 Saskatoon Quakers WHL 25th 7th 5 12 2 6th 1 2 3 2
1954/55 New York Rangers NHL 66 14th 16 30th 36 - - - - -
1955/56 New York Rangers NHL 66 16 28 44 71 5 0 1 1 2
1956/57 New York Rangers NHL 33 7th 12 19th 14th 5 0 0 0 0
1956/57 Providence Reds AHL 21st 12 11 23 14th - - - - -
1957/58 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 69 11 17th 28 32 - - - - -
1958/59 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 59 17th 30th 47 52 - - - - -
1959/60 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 63 15th 21st 36 18th 4th 1 0 1 0
1960/61 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 70 21st 19th 40 30th 12 2 1 3 0
1961/62 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 60 12 16 28 41 - - - - -
1962/63 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 68 18th 16 34 28 1 0 0 0 0
1963/64 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 70 11 8th 19th 32 7th 0 1 1 8th
1964/65 Detroit Red Wings NHL 58 20th 19th 39 32 5 0 1 1 4th
1965/66 Detroit Red Wings NHL 32 10 7th 17th 10 - - - - -
1965/66 Boston Bruins NHL 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1966/67 Boston Bruins NHL 39 11 16 27 6th - - - - -
1967/68 Boston Bruins NHL 12 0 1 1 4th 4th 0 0 0 0
1967/68 Oklahoma City Blazers CPHL 6th 2 2 4th 2 - - - - -
1968/69 Boston Bruins NHL 60 16 38 54 26th 10 4th 4th 8th 12
1969/70 Boston Bruins NHL 20th 2 5 7th 8th - - - - -
OHA total 151 141 144 285 128 14th 10 8th 18th 4th
AHL total 22nd 12 11 23 14th - - - - -
NHL overall 889 205 274 479 460 53 7th 8th 15th 26th

( 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 Murphy, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murphy, Robert Ronald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2014
Place of death Ontario