Ron Ward (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Ron Ward Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 12, 1944
place of birth Cornwall , Ontario , Canada
Nickname Magic
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1963-1965 Cornwall Colts
1965-1968 Tulsa Oilers
1968-1969 Rochester Americans
1969-1970 Toronto Maple Leafs
Tulsa Oilers
1970-1971 Rochester Americans
1971-1972 Vancouver Canucks
1972-1973 New York Raiders
1973 Vancouver Blazers
1973-1974 Los Angeles Sharks
1974-1976 Cleveland Crusaders
1976-1977 Minnesota Fighting Saints
1977 Winnipeg Jets
Calgary Cowboys

Ronald Leon Ward (born September 12, 1944 in Cornwall , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 89 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League between 1963 and 1977 and 372 games for the New York Raiders , Vancouver Blazers , Los Angeles Sharks , Cleveland Crusaders , Minnesota Fighting Saints , Winnipeg Jets and Calgary Cowboys in the World Hockey Association on the position of the center has denied. He then looked after the Voltigeurs de Drummondville from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec as head coach for a season.

Career

Ward spent his junior years between 1963 and 1965 in the service of the Cornwall Colts , a second-rate team for the Ontario Hockey Association from his hometown. After his first season, which ended early for the team, the center received as loaner for the Lachine Maroons and Smiths Falls Bears to participate in the 1964 Memorial Cup .

Following the 1964/65 season, the striker moved to the professional field and was initially active there for three years for the Tulsa Oilers in the Central Professional Hockey League . After he had completed the 1967/68 season as the league's top scorer , he was signed by the Vancouver Canucks from the Western Hockey League . They used him in their farm team , the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League . In their service he secured the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the best newcomer to the league in the 1968/69 season . For this he had scored 78 scorer points in 73 season appearances . Nevertheless, the Canucks Ward transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs in May 1969 in exchange for Brad Selwood and René Robert .

As a player of the Maple Leafs, the Canadian was able to celebrate his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1969/70 season, but he could not prevail there permanently. So he was used again for the Tulsa Oilers, who now played in the renamed Central Hockey League , as well as the Phoenix Roadrunners from the Western Hockey League. About the NHL Expansion Draft 1970 in June 1970 Ward came back to the Vancouver Canucks inducted into the NHL. There he was in the 1970/71 season again in the Rochester Americans squad before he succeeded in the 1971/72 season to get a regular place in Vancouver's NHL squad. With only six points in 71 games, the attacker could not meet the expectations placed in him.

With the establishment of the World Hockey Association for the 1972/73 season as a competitive league to the NHL, new opportunities opened up for Ward. After he was selected in February 1972 in the WHA General Player Draft by the New York Raiders , he joined them in the league's premier season. His 88 points scorer in 77 missions earned him a place in the WHA Second All-Star Team . Through a transfer deal he was given to league rivals Vancouver Blazers during the summer break with Pete Donnelly , who in return gave André Lacroix , Don Herriman and the WHA transfer rights to Bernie Parent to New York. For the Blazers Ward completed only seven games, since he was transferred to the Los Angeles Sharks in October 1973 in exchange for George Gardner and Ralph MacSweyn . After 40 games for Los Angeles, the third transfer within a year followed in February 1974. For Bill Young and Ted Hodgson Ward moved within the league to the Cleveland Crusaders , where he was at home for the next two years.

It was only when the Crusaders had to stop playing after the 1975/76 season and the team was relocated that the center forward left Cleveland. With the franchise , he moved to Saint Paul , Minnesota , where it played as the Minnesota Fighting Saints from then on. After the team had to stop playing there in the course of the 1976/77 season , Ward moved as a free agent to the Winnipeg Jets during the season . After 14 missions, the Jets and the two Finns Veli-Pekka Ketola and Heikki Riihiranta gave it to the Calgary Cowboys in exchange for Danny Lawson and Mike Ford . There the striker ended his active career after nine more missions after the end of the game year at the age of 32.

As a result, Ward retired from ice hockey. Only in the 1983/84 season he supervised the Voltigeurs de Drummondville from the junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec as head coach. With the Voltigeurs he reached the second playoff round this season, but then resigned.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1963/64 Cornwall Colts OHA-B
1964 Lachine Maroons Memorial Cup - - - - - 4th 0 0 0 6th
1964 Smiths Falls Bears Memorial Cup - - - - - 5 0 2 2 6th
1964/65 Cornwall Colts OHA-B 36 29 31 60 - - - - -
1965/66 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 69 6th 22nd 28 37 7th 1 2 3 9
1966/67 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 42 12 15th 27 46 - - - - -
1967/68 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 67 31 54 85 30th 11 5 5 10 8th
1967/68 Phoenix Roadrunners WHL 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1968/69 Rochester Americans AHL 73 35 43 78 18th - - - - -
1969/70 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 18th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1969/70 Tulsa Oilers CHL 22nd 7th 17th 24 15th - - - - -
1969/70 Phoenix Roadrunners WHL 22nd 7th 9 16 12 - - - - -
1970/71 Rochester Americans AHL 69 23 16 39 33 - - - - -
1971/72 Vancouver Canucks NHL 71 2 4th 6th 4th - - - - -
1972/73 New York Raiders WHA 77 21st 67 88 28 - - - - -
1973/74 Vancouver Blazers WHA 7th 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
1973/74 Los Angeles Sharks WHA 40 14th 19th 33 16 - - - - -
1973/74 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 23 19th 7th 26th 7th 5 3 0 3 2
1974/75 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 73 30th 32 62 18th 5 0 2 2 2
1975/76 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 75 32 50 82 24 3 0 2 2 0
1976/77 Minnesota Fighting Saints WHA 41 15th 21st 36 6th - - - - -
1976/77 Winnipeg Jets WHA 14th 4th 7th 11 2 - - - - -
1976/77 Calgary cowboys WHA 9 5 5 10 0 - - - - -
CPHL / CHL total 200 56 108 164 113 18th 6th 7th 13 17th
WHL overall 23 7th 10 17th 12 - - - - -
AHL total 142 58 59 117 51 - - - - -
WHA total 359 140 210 350 103 13 3 4th 7th 4th
NHL overall 89 2 5 7th 6th - - - - -

( 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 Ward, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, Ronald Leon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Cornwall , Ontario