Ron Wilson (ice hockey player, 1955)

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Flags of Canada and the United States.svg  Ron Wilson Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 28, 1955
place of birth Windsor , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
WHA Amateur Draft 1974 , 10th lap, 147th position
Houston Eros
NHL Amateur Draft 1975 , 8th round, 132nd position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1973-1977 Providence College
1977-1980 Toronto Maple Leafs
1980-1981 EHC Kloten
1981-1985 HC Davos
1985 Minnesota North Stars
1985-1986 HC Davos
1986-1988 Minnesota North Stars
1988 HC Davos
Zürcher SC

Ronald "Ron" Lawrence Wilson (born May 28, 1955 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach with a Canadian passport. From 1977 to 1988 he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League and for the EHC Kloten and HC Davos in the Swiss National League A on the position of defender . Most recently, Wilson was the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL. Before that he was in charge of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , Washington Capitals and San Jose Sharks .

Career

As a player

Born in Canada, Wilson grew up in Riverside , Rhode Island . During his junior years he played for Providence College in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In the 1974 WHA Amateur Draft , he was drawn by the Houston Eros in the twelfth round as 112th. A year later, in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft , the Toronto Maple Leafs secured the rights for the NHL in the eighth round as 132nd. In the same year he also played with the USA team at the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany. There he and his team finished last without winning a point. Wilson stayed in Providence for two more years before he wore the jersey of the Dallas Black Hawks in the Central Hockey League for four games at the end of the 1976/77 season .

After starting the following year in Dallas, he made his NHL debut in Toronto in the 1977/78 season . It was followed by two more seasons, in which he however more often ran up in the American Hockey League for the New Brunswick Hawks than for the Maple Leafs. Since Wilson, who had always been a dominant player in college and the minor leagues , did not make the breakthrough in the NHL, he moved to Switzerland in 1980. There he quickly became one of the stars of the league; he first played for the EHC Kloten and was active again for the United States at the 1981 Ice Hockey World Championship in Sweden. This was followed by four seasons for HC Davos , with whom he won the Swiss championship twice, in 1984 and 1985. There he ended the season 1984/85 as the player with the highest points in the National League A and thus had a significant share in the fact that the Davos team won the Swiss championship. Wilson was the first defender to finish the season as a top scorer in Switzerland. At the end of the 1984/85 season he played a few more games for the Minnesota North Stars . He also spent the following year partly in Davos and partly in Minnesota. The 1986/87 season he played again completely for the North Stars. He played his third World Cup in Austria in 1987 . After the 1987/88 season , which he had started again in Davos and ended in Minnesota, he resigned from the NHL stage as a player.

As a trainer

Flags of Canada and the United States.svg  Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson
Coaching stations
1989 HC Davos
1989-1990 Moncton Hawks (Ass.)
1990-1993 Vancouver Canucks (Ass.)
1993-1997 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1997-2002 Washington Capitals
2002-2008 San Jose Sharks
2008–2012 Toronto Maple Leafs

In 1988 he went to Zürcher SC in the National League B , but where he could not meet the expectations of him as captain and at the turn of the year 1989 moved to HC Davos in the National League A as a coach. With the HCD he did not manage to keep the league and was released after a few weeks. This was followed by an engagement as an assistant coach for the Moncton Hawks in the American Hockey League as well as with the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL. The newly formed Mighty Ducks of Anaheim signed him as their first coach at the beginning of the 1993/94 game year . There he was active for four years before he signed a contract with the Washington Capitals for the 1997/98 season . Here he reached the finals of the Stanley Cup with the team in the first year , where the Detroit Red Wings were an insurmountable opponent. Wilson stayed in Washington for five years. He then went into the 2002/03 season for the first time without a team . But during the season, the San Jose Sharks were looking for a new head coach and Wilson took over on December 4, 2002 the post. There he was active until the end of the 2007/08 season . In addition to winning two division titles with the Sharks, Wilson was when his team played against the Colorado Avalanche on March 18, 2007 for the 1,000 times as a coach in an NHL game behind the gang. He was only the 13th coach in the history of the league to do so.

Wilson celebrated the 500th victory of his career just under a year later on February 9, 2008 in the 4: 3 home win of the Sharks against the Nashville Predators . Only ten other coaches had previously achieved this milestone. After Wilson had failed to win the Stanley Cup in his four and a half seasons at San Jose and had failed three times in a row with the team in the second playoff round, the franchise separated on May 12, 2008. Wilson did not stay long without a team, however, as some teams were looking for a coach after the end of the season. He finally decided on June 10, 2008 to sign a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs , for whom he had made his NHL debut as a player in 1977, over four years. On January 11, 2011, Wilson recorded his 600th win as a coach in the NHL when the Maple Leafs won 4-2 at the San Jose Sharks. He was the league's seventh coach to reach this milestone. On March 2, 2012, after a negative series in which the Toronto Maple Leafs had recently won only one of eleven NHL games and again threatened to fail to qualify for the playoffs, he was relieved of his office and replaced by Randy Carlyle in this role .

Wilson was nominated twice for the Jack Adams Award for best NHL coach. He was also the coach of Team USA at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and 2010 in Vancouver , at the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 and 2004 and at the World Championships in 1994 and 1996 .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

  • 1974 ECAC Rookie of the Year
  • 1975 ECAC First All-Star Team
  • 1975 ECAC Player of the Year
  • 1975 NCAA East First All-American Team
  • 1976 ECAC First All-Star Team
  • 1976 NCAA East First All-American Team
  • 1977 ECAC Second All-Star Team
  • 1978 CHL First All-Star Team
  • 1984 Swiss champion with HC Davos
  • 1985 Swiss champion with HC Davos

As a trainer

Others

Career statistics

As a player

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1973/74 Providence College NCAA 26th 16 22nd 38 0
1974/75 Providence College NCAA 27 26th 61 87 12
1975/76 Providence College NCAA 28 19th 47 66 44
1976/77 Providence College NCAA 30th 17th 42 59 62
1976/77 Dallas Black Hawks CHL 4th 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
1977/78 Dallas Black Hawks CHL 67 31 38 69 18th - - - - -
1977/78 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 13 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
1978/79 New Brunswick Hawks AHL 31 11 21st 32 13 - - - - -
1978/79 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 46 5 12 17th 4th 3 0 1 1 0
1979/80 New Brunswick Hawks AHL 43 20th 43 63 10 14th 3 2 5 2
1979/80 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 5 0 2 2 2 3 1 2 3 2
1980/81 EHC Kloten NLA 38 22nd 23 45
1981/82 HC Davos NLA 38 26th 22nd 48
1982/83 HC Davos NLA 36 32 32 64
1983/84 HC Davos NLA 36 33 39 72
1984/85 HC Davos NLA 38 39 52 91
1984/85 Minnesota North Stars NHL 13 4th 8th 12 2 9 1 6th 7th 2
1985/86 HC Davos NLA 35 29 37 66 78 5 6th 2 8th 13
1985/86 Minnesota North Stars NHL 11 1 3 4th 8th 5 2 4th 6th 4th
1986/87 Minnesota North Stars NHL 65 12 29 41 36 - - - - -
1987/88 Minnesota North Stars NHL 24 2 12 14th 16 - - - - -
1987/88 HC Davos NLA 14th 8th 24 32 20th 6th 2 4th 6th 18th
1988/89 Zurich SC NLB 25th 17th 21st 38 30th - - - - -
NCAA overall 111 78 172 250 118
CHL total 71 32 38 70 20th - - - - -
AHL total 74 31 64 95 23 14th 3 2 5 2
NHL overall 177 26th 67 93 68 20th 4th 13 17th 8th
NLB total 25th 17th 21st 38 30th - - - - -
NLA total 235 189 229 418 11 8th 6th 14th 31

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1981 United States WM 8th 3 4th 7th 2
1987 United States WM 10 1 3 4th 12
Men overall 18th 4th 7th 11 14th

( 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 )

As a trainer

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp S. N U OTN Pt Win% Sp S. N result
1988/89 HC Davos NLA
1988/89 Moncton Hawks AHL Assistant coach under Rick Bowness and Alpo Suhonen
1989/90 Moncton Hawks AHL Assistant coach under Dave Farrish
1990/91 Vancouver Canucks NHL Assistant coach under Pat Quinn
1991/92 Vancouver Canucks NHL Assistant coach under Pat Quinn
1992/93 Vancouver Canucks NHL Assistant coach under Pat Quinn
1993/94 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 84 33 46 5 - 71 0.423 - - - -
1994/95 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 48 16 27 5 - 37 0.385 - - - -
1995/96 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 82 35 39 8th - 78 0.476 - - - -
1996/97 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 82 36 33 13 - 85 0.518 11 4th 7th Conference semifinal
1997/98 Washington Capitals NHL 82 40 30th 12 - 92 0.561 21st 12 9 Stanley Cup Final
1998/99 Washington Capitals NHL 82 31 45 6th - 68 0.415 - - - -
1999/00 Washington Capitals NHL 82 44 24 12 2 102 0.622 5 1 4th Conference quarterfinal
2000/01 Washington Capitals NHL 82 41 27 10 4th 96 0.585 6th 2 4th Conference quarterfinal
2001/02 Washington Capitals NHL 82 36 33 11 2 85 0.518 - - - -
2002/03 San Jose Sharks NHL 57 19th 25th 7th 6th 51 0.447 - - - -
2003/04 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 43 21st 12 6th 104 0.634 17th 10 7th Conference Final
2004/05 San Jose Sharks NHL not supervised due to lockout
2005/06 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 44 27 - 11 99 0.604 11 6th 5 Conference semifinal
2006/07 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 51 26th - 5 107 0.652 11 6th 5 Conference semifinal
2007/08 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 49 23 - 10 108 0.658 13 6th 7th Conference semifinal
2008/09 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 34 35 - 13 81 0.494 - - - -
2009/10 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 30th 38 - 14th 74 0.451 - - - -
2010/11 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 37 34 - 11 85 0.518 - - - -
2011/12 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 64 29 28 - 7th 65 0.508 - - - -
NHL overall 1401 648 561 101 91 1488 0.531 95 47 48 8 participations

International

Supervised the USA on:

year team event result
1994 United States WM 4th Place
1996 United States World cup gold medal
1998 United States Olympia Silver medal
2004 United States World cup Semifinals
2009 United States WM 4th Place
2010 United States Olympia Silver medal

( 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 )

family

His father Larry Wilson and his uncle Johnny Wilson were ice hockey coaches and coached the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League. Johnny from 1971 to 1973 and Larry in the 1976/77 season .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Benoit: Ice Hockey 86 . Habegger Verlag, Derendingen 1985, ISBN 3-85723-237-4 , p. 138 .
  2. ↑ Mark Ritter: Ron Wilson Wins His 600th Game As an NHL Coach. In: bleacherreport.com. January 12, 2011, accessed June 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Ronald Lawrence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor , Ontario