Terry Murray

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CanadaCanada  Terry Murray Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 20, 1950
place of birth Shawville , Quebec , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 86 kg
position defender
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 7th round, 88th position
California Golden Seals
Career stations
1965-1966 Pembroke Lumber Kings
1967-1970 Ottawa 67's
1970-1971 Providence Reds
1971-1972 Baltimore Clippers
Boston Braves
Oklahoma City Blazers
1972-1974 California Golden Seals
1974-1975 Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1975-1976 Richmond Robins
1976-1977 Philadelphia Flyers
1977 Detroit Red Wings
1977-1980 Maine Mariners
1980-1981 Philadelphia Flyers
1981-1982 Washington Capitals

Terry Rodney Murray (born July 20, 1950 in Shawville , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey defender and current coach. During his active career, he completed 320 games in the National Hockey League for the California Golden Seals , Philadelphia Flyers , Detroit Red Wings and Washington Capitals . He later served in the NHL as the head coach of the Capitals, Flyers, Florida Panthers and Los Angeles Kings .

Career as a player

Terry Murray began his career in 1967 with the Ottawa 67’s in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey Association , where he played alongside future NHL players Denis Potvin and Bill Clement . After three solid years in the OHA, Murray was selected by the California Golden Seals in the seventh round of the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft at position 88. After he switched to the professionals in the summer of 1970 and had spent the first two years with several lower-class teams, he came in the 1972/73 season for the first time in the National Hockey League and played 23 games for the Golden Seals, spent most of the year but still in the second-rate Western Hockey League .

In the following season he finally belonged to the regular squad of the Golden Seals and was able to prepare a total of twelve goals in 58 games, but in 1974/75 his frequency of use in the NHL was again limited and he played in the Central Hockey League for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles , with which he won the Adams Cup .

After he did not get a new contract with the Golden Seals in the summer of 1975, he moved within the NHL to the Philadelphia Flyers , but initially played for their farm team , the Richmond Robins from the American Hockey League , where he convinced with 56 points in 67 games and was elected to the AHL First All-Star Team . He was also used for the Flyers six times in the playoffs when they reached the Stanley Cup finals. Murray then belonged to the NHL squad of Philadelphia in the 1976/77 season and played in 36 games before he was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings in February 1977 , where he ended the season.

The Flyers brought him back in November 1977, but he played almost exclusively in the AHL for the Maine Mariners , where he rose to a high performer, won the Eddie Shore Award for best defender twice in a row and the Calder Cup twice with the Mariners won. Although Murray had a rather weak year with the Mariners in the 1979/80 season , he succeeded in making another jump to the Flyers' NHL squad in the fall of 1980. In 71 games he got 18 points scorer, including his first NHL goal.

Shortly before the start of the 1981/82 season , the Washington Capitals signed him through the NHL Waiver Draft and Terry Murray played under the leadership of his older brother Bryan Murray , who was the team's coach at the time. He completed his best NHL season with three goals and 22 assists and ended his active career in the summer of 1982.

Career as a coach

Terry Murray remained in the organization of the Washington Capitals and was assistant coach of the team in the fall of 1982, which was the first time two brothers were behind the gang of an NHL team. The two worked together until 1988, when Terry Murray was appointed head coach of the Capitals farm team, the Baltimore Skipjacks from the AHL. His first season was rather weak, as the skipjacks only finished twelfth in the 14-team league. However, with 30 wins from 80 league games, the team was able to improve significantly compared to the previous year, when they only won 13 games and were clearly beaten last.

The Skipjacks saw a further increase in the first half of the following season when they won 26 of 45 games before Terry Murray was promoted to head coach of the Washington Capitals after they fired his brother. He led the Capitals in the same season after victories over the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers to the Conference finals, where they clearly failed because of the Boston Bruins . After an average season in 1990/91 , the Capitals finished the following regular season as the second best team in the league and they also showed good performances, but they did not succeed in the playoffs. When the team won only 20 of the 47 games they had played in the 1993/94 season , Murray was sacked in late January 1994.

But after just a month he was hired by the Cincinnati Cyclones from the IHL as head coach, who acted as the Florida Panthers' farm team . Murray looked after the team in the last 28 games of the season, but returned in the summer of 1994 back to the NHL, where he took over the Philadelphia Flyers as coach. In the following two years, the Flyers were able to establish themselves at the top of the league, after first place in the Atlantic Division in the 1994/95 season , the top position in the Eastern Conference followed , only success in the playoffs remained for the time being. In 1995 , Murray was nominated as one of three candidates for the Jack Adams Award . In the 1996/97 season Murray led the team around superstar Eric Lindros finally to the final of the Stanley Cup, where they were subject to the Detroit Red Wings.

Despite three successful seasons, Murray was deposed as coach of the Flyers in the summer of 1997 and worked as a scout for the team for another year . From the 1998/99 season he worked again with his brother, who was now general manager of the Florida Panthers and Terry Murray hired as the trainer of the franchise . After the Panthers missed the playoffs in the first year, the following year they played the best season in their history with 43 wins from 82 games, but in the first round of the playoffs they clearly failed due to the New Jersey Devils. In the following season 2000/01 , however, the Panthers started weak and on December 28, 2000 Murray was released.

In the summer of 2001 he returned to the Philadelphia Flyers again, where he worked as a scout for two years before moving up to the coaching staff in 2003 and becoming assistant coach under Ken Hitchcock and from October 2006 under John Stevens . During that time the Flyers reached the finals of the Eastern Conference twice.

On July 17, 2008, Terry Murray took over for the first time in almost eight years a head coach position when the Los Angeles Kings signed him . In December 2011 he was removed from office with the Kings, whereupon he was committed as head coach of the Adirondack Phantoms from the American Hockey League in late June 2012 . He continued to hold this position with the team's move and name change to Lehigh Valley Phantoms , but was fired after the 2014/15 season and replaced by Scott Gordon .

As a result, he was hired in June 2015 as an assistant coach under Dan Bylsma at the Buffalo Sabers . He held this position until the end of the 2016/17 season.

Achievements and Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murray returns to AHL with Phantoms. American Hockey League , June 29, 2012, accessed July 3, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Murray, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, Terry Rodney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Shawville , Quebec