Ryan Murray

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Ryan Murray
Date of birth September 27, 1993
place of birth White City , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
number # 27
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 1st round, 2nd position
Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2009-2013 Everett Silvertips
since 2013 Columbus Blue Jackets

Ryan Murray (born September 27, 1993 in White City , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . Since 2013, the defender has played for the Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League , which selected him in second position in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft . With the Canadian national team , he won the gold medal at the 2016 World Cup .

Career

Ryan Murray was selected in the 2008 Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in the first round in ninth position by the Everett Silvertips . Then the player completed a season for the Moose Jaw Canucks in the Saskatchewan Midget Hockey League , a regional junior league. For the Silvertips, the defender made his debut as a 15-year-old in the play-offs of the 2008/09 WHL season . In the following season Murray played together with Radko Gudas in a defensive row. In the play-offs of this season, Ryan Murray came as a 16-year-old WHL rookie to up to 35 minutes of ice time per game due to injury-related failures of his teammates . The Everett Silvertips were eliminated in the first play-off round against the Kelowna Rockets ; Murray scored just as many points scorer in the seven games and was the third-best scorer within the team.

In the 2010/11 WHL season , Ryan Murray was named assistant captain of the Silvertips. The defender played 70 games in the regular season and with 46 points scored his statistically best WHL season. In the 2011/12 season , the defender who had been appointed team captain had to be out of play for seven weeks due to an ankle injury early in the season. Overall, Murray came this season to 50 appearances for the Everett Silvertips, which were eliminated in the first play-off round for the fifth year in a row.

At the NHL Entry Draft 2012 he was selected in the first round in second position by the Columbus Blue Jackets , for which he has been used regularly since the 2013/14 season. In July 2019, he signed a new two-year contract in Columbus that should earn him an average annual salary of $ 4.6 million.

International

Ryan Murray represented his home country with the Canadian national team for the first time at an international tournament at the U18 Junior World Championship 2010 , in which the Canadians were without a medal. The following Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010 was more successful , in which he led the Canadian selection as team captain to the gold medal. Outside the medal ranks, the team stayed again at the U18 Junior World Championship the following year . In this tournament, however, he ran again as captain and was with 10 points scorer in seven completed games behind Ryan Murphy, the second best point collector in Canada.

At the U20 Junior World Cup in 2012 , the Canadian selection lost the semi-finals against the Russian national team . In the following game for third place they defeated the Finnish selection and consequently won the bronze medal. In the same year, Murray also made his debut in the men's division when he finished fifth with Team Canada at the 2012 World Cup .

After four years he was part of the Canadian squad again at the 2016 World Cup and won the gold medal there.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Murray in the national team jersey (2012)

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2008/09 Moose Jaw Canucks SMHL 41 12 26th 38 12 5 1 6th 7th 6th
2008/09 Everett Silvertips WHL - - - - - - 5 0 1 1 2 -2
2009/10 Everett Silvertips WHL 52 5 22nd 27 31 +33 7th 2 5 7th 2 ± 0
2010/11 Everett Silvertips WHL 70 6th 40 46 45 +18 4th 1 2 3 4th -5
2011/12 Everett Silvertips WHL 46 9 22nd 31 31 ± 0 4th 3 2 5 0 -2
2012/13 Everett Silvertips WHL 23 2 15th 17th 14th ± 0 - - - - - -
2013/14 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 66 4th 17th 21st 10 +4 5 0 1 1 0 -1
2014/15 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 12 1 2 3 8th +1 - - - - - -
2015/16 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 82 4th 21st 25th 40 -10 - - - - - -
2016/17 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 60 2 9 11 24 +3 - - - - - -
2017/18 Cleveland Monsters AHL 1 1 0 1 0 ± 0 - - - - - -
2017/18 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 44 1 11 12 8th +4 6th 0 1 1 2 +3
2018/19 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 56 1 28 29 10 +20 - - - - - -
WHL overall 191 22nd 99 121 121 +51 20th 6th 10 16 8th –9
NHL overall 320 13 88 101 100 +22 11 0 2 2 2 +2

International

Represented Canada to:

 

Represented team North America at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 Canada Western U17-WHC 10th place 5 0 1 1 6th
2010 Canada U18 World Cup 7th place 6th 0 0 0 2
2010 Canada Hlinka Memorial 1st place, gold 5 0 2 2 2
2011 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 7th 3 7th 10 6th
2012 Canada U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 0 3 3 0
2012 Canada WM 5th place 6th 0 0 0 0
2016 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 0 5 5 0
2016 North America team World cup 5th place 3 0 0 0 0
2018 Canada WM 4th Place 10 0 1 1 4th
Juniors overall 29 3 13 16 16
Men overall 29 0 6th 6th 4th

( 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 )

Play style

Ryan Murray is a two-way defender with playful qualities on both defense and offense. His style of play is compared to that of Scott Niedermayer . The defender is considered a good skater and intelligent player. Murray himself describes his playmaking skills as his greatest strength.

Web links

Commons : Ryan Murray  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Red Deer Rebels Select Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with First Overall Bantam Draft Pick. Western Hockey League , May 3, 2008, accessed April 3, 2012 .
  2. ^ A b Ryan Kennedy: Prospect Watch: Ryan Murray. The Hockey News , September 23, 2010, accessed March 4, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Chiefs Spoil Murray's Return. Everett Silvertips , December 10, 2011, accessed March 4, 2012 .
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Squad of Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2019/20 season
personal data
SURNAME Murray, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH White City , Saskatchewan