Ron Plumb

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CanadaCanada  Ron Plumb Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 15, 1950
place of birth Kingston , Ontario , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 79 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 1st lap, 9th position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
1967-1970 Peterborough Petes
1970-1972 Oklahoma City Blazers
1972-1973 Philadelphia Blazers
1973-1974 Vancouver Blazers
1974-1975 San Diego Mariners
1975-1988 Cincinnati stingers
1978-1979 New England / Hartford Whalers
1979-1982 Springfield Indians
1982-1983 ERC Freiburg
1983-1984 Kushiro Ice Hockey Club
1984-1986 Fife Flyers

Ronald William "Ron" Plumb (born July 15, 1950 in Kingston , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who played 590 games for the Philadelphia Blazers , Vancouver Blazers during his playing career between 1967 and 1986 , San Diego Mariners , Cincinnati Stingers and New England Whalers in the World Hockey Association (WHA) and 26 others for the Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of defender . In the WHA, Plumb was awarded the Dennis A. Murphy Trophy as the league's best defender in 1977 . His younger brother Rob was also active as a hockey player in the NHL.

Career

Plumb spent his junior years between 1967 and 1970 with the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). There he developed into one of the best defenders in the junior league over the course of three years. After his development had stagnated in the second year, he increased his point yield significantly in his third and final year. With 45 scorer points , he tripled his goal participation compared to the previous year and doubled it based on his previous career record from his rookie year 1967/68. As a result, he was awarded the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the best defensive player in the league and also appointed to the First All-Star team. In the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft , the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League (NHL) selected him from ninth overall position.

For the 1970/71 season , the Bruins got their draft pick in the professional field. However, they first used him in their farm team , the Oklahoma City Blazers , in the Central Hockey League (CHL). Although Plumb was able to continue his positive development there with 52 points and the nomination for the CHL First All-Star Team in his second league year, but with no prospect of playing in the Boston Bruins' NHL roster. By founding the World Hockey Association (WHA) as a league competing with the NHL, the franchises there divided the transfer rights among numerous players for their league in February 1972 as part of the WHA General Player Draft . As a result, the Miami Screaming Eagles secured the rights to Plumb for the WHA market , but they relocated before the start of the premiere season and began playing as the Philadelphia Blazers . Finally, the Canadian signed a contract there in July 1972 and spent the 1972/73 season with the Blazers in Philadelphia. With 51 scorer points, the defensive player had a remarkable first season at the highest level. For the following gaming year, the franchise moved to Vancouver, Canada, where it continued gaming as the Vancouver Blazers .

However, the defender did not feel at home in Vancouver either. Although he had acted as one of four assistant captains in the 1973/74 season , the team transferred him to league rivals Cincinnati Stingers in August 1974 . The Stingers, who did not get into the WHA until the 1975/76 season, immediately loaned him to the San Diego Mariners for the 1974/75 season , so that he was only on the ice for his actual employer the following year. The Stingers' patience paid off as the Canadian developed into one of the best defenders of the WHA. At the end of the 1976/77 game year he had 69 scorer points and a positive plus / minus balance of 64, which - in addition to his first appointment to the WHA First All-Star Team  - won the Dennis A. Murphy Trophy for the best defensive player in the WHA bestowed. Nevertheless, the Stingers separated from their star player in February 1978 and transferred him to the New England Whalers in a return campaign for the young talent Greg Carroll .

With the Whalers, who were among the more ambitious teams in the league, Plumb played a less central role. Nevertheless, the franchise kept him after the dissolution of the WHA, as a result of which it was accepted into the NHL, in the summer of 1979 out. The now trading as Hartford Whalers team was able to protect him from the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft , as the Boston Bruins did not claim their NHL rights to the 28-year-old, which had existed since 1970. So he went to the 1979/80 season in his first NHL season. However, he completed only 26 games there by the end of December 1979 before management sent him to the Springfield Indians farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL) . Despite a change as a free agent to the New York Rangers in September 1981, he then failed to return to the NHL. Even after the move, he stayed with the Indians until the end of the 1981/82 season , whose team captain he was there in his last season.

Plumb then moved to the European continent in the summer of 1982. He spent the 1982/83 season at ERC Freiburg in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . With the team he succeeded in winning the second division championship and the associated promotion to the ice hockey Bundesliga . Despite the success, the Canadian left the Breisgauer but after only one season and moved to the Japan Ice Hockey League (JIHL). There was one season as a player- coach for the Kushiro Ice Hockey Club . He then returned to Europe, where he was the player-coach of the Scottish club Fife Flyers for the following two years , which he led in his first year in the British Hockey League (BHL) to win the British championship . After two years in Scotland, Plumb retired from the ice hockey business. Between 1986 and 1988 he was in charge of the ice hockey program at Queen's University in his hometown of Kingston as head coach before returning to the BHL as general manager of the Fife Flyers after a long break for the 1995/96 season .

After being inducted into the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame in 2008, Plumb was one of the first members of the newly created WHA Hall of Fame in 2010 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1967/68 Peterborough Petes OHA 47 3 19th 22nd 38 5 0 2 2 7th
1968/69 Peterborough Petes OHA 53 4th 10 14th 57 10 2 1 3 19th
1969/70 Peterborough Petes OHA 54 16 29 45 77 6th 2 3 5 19th
1970/71 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 72 3 19th 22nd 73 5 0 0 0 12
1971/72 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 72 10 42 52 90 6th 1 2 3 8th
1972/73 Philadelphia Blazers WHA 78 10 41 51 66 4th 0 2 2 13
1973/74 Vancouver Blazers WHA 75 6th 32 38 40 - - - - -
1974/75 San Diego Mariners WHA 78 10 38 48 56 10 2 3 5 19th
1975/76 Cincinnati stingers WHA 80 10 36 46 31 - - - - -
1976/77 Cincinnati stingers WHA 79 11 58 69 52 4th 1 2 3 0
1977/78 Cincinnati stingers WHA 53 13 34 47 45 - - - - -
1977/78 New England Whalers WHA 27 1 9 10 18th 14th 1 5 6th 16
1978/79 New England Whalers WHA 78 4th 16 20th 33 9 1 3 4th 0
1979/80 Hartford Whalers NHL 26th 3 4th 7th 14th - - - - -
1979/80 Springfield Indians AHL 52 2 20th 22nd 42 - - - - -
1980/81 Springfield Indians AHL 79 11 51 62 150 7th 3 6th 9 8th
1981/82 Springfield Indians AHL 80 4th 31 35 56 - - - - -
1982/83 ERC Freiburg 2nd Bundesliga 36 14th 38 52 72 - - - - -
1983/84 Kushiro Ice Hockey Club JIHL Statistics not available
1984/85 Fife Flyers BHL 36 26th 54 80 88 9 3 14th 17th 14th
1985/86 Fife Flyers BHL 36 20th 51 71 76 5 0 4th 4th 8th
OHA total 154 23 58 81 172 21st 4th 6th 10 45
CHL total 144 13 61 74 163 11 1 2 3 20th
AHL total 211 17th 102 119 248 7th 3 6th 9 8th
WHA total 549 65 264 329 341 41 5 15th 20th 48
BHL as a whole 72 46 105 151 164 14th 3 18th 21st 22nd

( 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 Plumb, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plumb, Ronald William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Ontario , Canada