Ron Wilson (ice hockey player, 1956)

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CanadaCanada  Ron Wilson Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 13, 1956
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
Nickname Dog
size 175 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1976 , 13th lap, 133rd position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1972-1973 Toronto Marlboros
1973 Hamilton Red Wings
1973-1975 Markham Waxers
1975 Toronto Marlboros
1975-1976 St. Catharines Black Hawks
1976-1979 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1979-1988 Winnipeg Jets
1988-1990 Moncton Hawks
1990-1993 St. Louis Blues
1993-1994 Canadiens de Montréal
1994 Detroit Vipers
1994-1995 San Diego Gulls
1995-1996 Wheeling Thunderbirds

Ronald Lee "Ron" Wilson (born May 13, 1956 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 895 games for the Winnipeg Jets , St. Louis Blues during his playing career between 1975 and 1996 and Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Since the end of his career, he has mainly worked as an assistant coach in the North American minor leagues and junior leagues . Wilson celebrated his greatest career successes in the American Hockey League  - as a player of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs he won the Calder Cup in 1977 and in 2001 and 2007 as part of the coaching team of the Saint John Flames and Hamilton Bulldogs .

Career

Player career

Wilson spent his junior years between 1972 and 1976 with numerous teams in his home province of Toronto . First, the striker was in the squad of the Toronto Marlboros from the Ontario Hockey Association and the Markham Waxers . In the following two years he was mainly active for the Waxers. The only exception was six missions for the Hamilton Red Wings in the 1973/74 season. At the end of the 1974/75 season, the left shooter returned to the Toronto Marlboros in the OHA. This had to do without their four top scorers of the regular season -  Bruce Boudreau , John Tonelli , Mark Napier and John Anderson  - in the playoffs , so that the late signing of Wilson paid off. Together with Mike Kaszycki , who like him posted 26 points scorer in the playoffs, he led the Marlboros to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup . In addition, Toronto qualified for the Memorial Cup , which they also won this game year and thus make the double perfect.

Nevertheless, Wilson did not stay over the end of the 1974/75 season with the Toronto Marlboros, but moved within the league to the St. Catharines Black Hawks . At the Black Hawks, the 19-year-old played a convincing season with 99 points in 64 main round games. In the playoffs he could not prevent the elimination in the first round against the Kitchener Rangers despite seven scorer points in four missions. Although the center forward could only show a complete season at the highest level in the system of Canadian junior ice hockey, he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1976 in the 13th round in 133rd position by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League . The Canadiens committed their draft choice immediately and set him with the beginning of the 1976/77 season in their farm team in the American Hockey League , the Nova Scotia Voyageurs . This was top-class with Pierre Mondou , Pat Hughes , Rod Schutt and Peter-John Lee , as the squad of the Canadiens de Montréal in the NHL was already filled with very talented players. In his first year as a professional, the rookie won the Calder Cup with the Voyageurs alongside these players . He himself contributed 36 points over the course of the season. In the following two years, which he also spent in Nova Scotia, he increased over 48 to 86 points scorer.

After three years in the Franco-Canadian franchise of the Canadiens without even having played an NHL game, the offensive player was sold to the Winnipeg Jets in October 1979 . The Jets had been one of the teams the National Hockey League had taken over from the disbanding World Hockey Association in the previous summer. In Winnipeg, Wilson made the leap into the NHL, and he was on the ice for the Jets at the beginning of the 1979/80 season . He played 79 games this season and scored 57 times. Even in the following year and a half, the Canadian remained a fixed point of the squad before he was given to the cooperation partner Tulsa Oilers from the Central Hockey League at the turn of the year 1981/82 until the end of the season . From the 1982/83 season began unsteady times for Wilson, as he repeatedly spent significant periods in the farm teams of the Winnipeg Jets until the summer of 1988. Most of the 1982/83 season the center was in the squad of the Jets de Sherbrooke in the AHL and it was until March 1983 before he came back to the NHL for minutes. Also in the playing years 1983/84 and 1985/86 he was used in the AHL in Sherbrooke - initially still with the Jets, later with the Canadiens . The seasons 1984/85 , 1986/87 and 1987/88 , however, he spent completely in the NHL. In the summer, his NHL career initially ended because Wilson was on the ice from the 1988/89 season in the squad of Winnipeg's cooperation team Moncton Hawks . This season the attacker was appointed to the AHL Second All-Star Team .

It was only with the transfer to the St. Louis Blues , who gave Doug Evans to Winnipeg for it, that the now 33-year-old returned to the NHL in January 1990 and established himself there again in the following years. Wilson played three and a half game years with the Blues and completed over 200 games for the team during that period. In August 1993, he changed clubs for the first time in his career as a free agent when he joined the Canadiens de Montréal. In his final NHL season, the striker made 48 appearances for the Habs . Subsequently, Wilson moved to the International Hockey League , where he initially completed twelve games with the Detroit Vipers in the 1994/95 season . However, he ended the season at league rivals San Diego Gulls . The almost 40-year-old played his last professional season with the Wheeling Thunderbirds in the East Coast Hockey League . In the spring of 1996 he retired from active professional sport.

Coaching career

CanadaCanada  Ron Wilson
Coaching stations
1996-2000 Springfield Falcons (assistant coach)
2000-2003 Saint John Flames (assistant coach)
2003-2009 Hamilton Bulldogs (assistant coach)
2009-2011 Chicago Wolves (assistant coach)
2011-2013 Hamilton Bulldogs (assistant coach)
since 2015 Hamilton Bulldogs (assistant coach)

Immediately after the end of his career, Wilson pulled behind the gang as a coach . He was hired by the Springfield Falcons from the American Hockey League, where he worked as an assistant coach for four seasons until the summer of 2000. First one year under head coach Kevin McCarthy , the remaining three under Dave Farrish . For the 2000/01 season , Wilson moved within the league to the Saint John Flames . Also employed as an assistant, he worked under the direction of Jim Playfair . At the end of the season, the Flames won the Calder Cup. Wilson remained loyal to the team in the following two game years, where he replaced Playfair in the course of the 2002/03 season on the head coach post.

With the move of the Saint John Flames to Omaha in the US state of Nebraska in the summer of 2003 and the associated restructuring, Wilson left the franchise in the summer of 2003, but remained in the AHL. With the beginning of the 2003/04 game year he was employed again as an assistant for the Hamilton Bulldogs for the next six years until the summer of 2009 . There he was active during the tenures of Doug Jarvis and Don Lever . In 2007 he won his second and third overall Calder Cup of his career as part of the coaching staff.

After six years in Hamilton followed a two-year interlude for Wilson at league rivals Chicago Wolves , where he had moved with Lever. But they could not continue the successful collaboration from Hamilton, and so he returned to Hamilton for the 2011/12 season. He subordinated his services as assistant coach to Clément Jodoin and Sylvain Lefebvre until summer 2013 . He then took a two-year career break. For the 2015/16 season he joined the Hamilton Bulldogs a third time , but they were now part of the Ontario Hockey League junior league . After initially working with George Burnett for a year, he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the team alongside head coach John Gruden in the 2017/18 season . Since the beginning of the 2018/19 season , Wilson reports to David Matsos .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1972/73 Toronto Marlboros OHA 21st 1 11 12 2 - - - - -
1972/73 Markham Waxers MTJHL
1973/74 Hamilton Red Wings OHA 6th 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
1973/74 Markham Waxers OPJHL
1974/75 Markham Waxers OPJHL 43 26th 28 54 24 - - - - -
1974/75 Toronto Marlboros OMJHL 16 6th 12 18th 6th 23 9 17th 26th 6th
1975 Toronto Marlboros Memorial Cup 4th 0 3 3 2
1975/76 St. Catharines Black Hawks OMJHL 64 37 62 99 44 4th 1 6th 7th 7th
1976/77 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 67 15th 21st 36 18th 6th 0 0 0 0
1977/78 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 59 15th 25th 40 17th 11 4th 4th 8th 9
1978/79 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 77 33 42 75 91 10 5 6th 11 14th
1979/80 Winnipeg Jets NHL 79 21st 36 57 28 - - - - -
1980/81 Winnipeg Jets NHL 77 18th 33 51 55 - - - - -
1981/82 Winnipeg Jets NHL 39 3 13 16 49 - - - - -
1981/82 Tulsa Oilers CHL 41 20th 38 58 22nd 3 1 0 1 2
1982/83 Jets de Sherbrooke AHL 65 30th 55 85 71 - - - - -
1982/83 Winnipeg Jets NHL 12 6th 3 9 4th 3 2 2 4th 2
1983/84 Jets de Sherbrooke AHL 22nd 10 30th 40 16 - - - - -
1983/84 Winnipeg Jets NHL 51 3 12 15th 12 - - - - -
1984/85 Winnipeg Jets NHL 75 10 9 19th 31 8th 4th 2 6th 2
1985/86 Canadiens de Sherbrooke AHL 10 9 8th 17th 9 - - - - -
1985/86 Winnipeg Jets NHL 54 6th 7th 13 16 1 0 0 0 0
1986/87 Winnipeg Jets NHL 80 3 13 16 13 10 1 2 3 0
1987/88 Winnipeg Jets NHL 69 5 8th 13 28 1 0 0 0 2
1988/89 Moncton Hawks AHL 80 31 61 92 110 8th 1 4th 5 20th
1989/90 Moncton Hawks AHL 47 16 37 53 39 - - - - -
1989/90 St. Louis Blues NHL 33 3 17th 20th 23 12 3 5 8th 18th
1990/91 St. Louis Blues NHL 73 10 27 37 54 7th 0 0 0 28
1991/92 St. Louis Blues NHL 64 12 17th 29 46 6th 0 1 1 0
1992/93 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 8th 11 19th 44 11 0 0 0 12
1993/94 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 48 2 10 12 12 4th 0 0 0 0
1994/95 Detroit Vipers IHL 12 6th 9 15th 10 - - - - -
1994/95 San Diego Gulls IHL 58 8th 25th 33 60 5 2 0 2 8th
1995/96 Wheeling Thunderbirds ECHL 46 12 30th 42 72 2 0 3 3 6th
OHA / OMJHL total 107 45 85 130 54 27 10 23 33 13
AHL total 427 159 279 438 371 35 10 14th 24 43
IHL total 70 14th 34 48 70 5 2 0 2 8th
NHL overall 832 110 216 326 415 63 10 12 22nd 64

( 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 Wilson, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Ronald Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario