Larry Robinson
Larry Clark Robinson ( born June 2, 1951 in Winchester, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who played from 1972 to 1992 for the Montreal Canadiens and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League. He is currently assistant coach of the New Jersey Devils.
Career
Until the 1960s, many players like Eddie Shore, Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull played in the NHL, who had grown up in the country on a farm. When Larry Robinson's career began in the 1970s, that was the exception. Shortly after he was running, his parents put on skates, but it was only eight years old he came to a school team. As is customary in the country, he married young and when he played in Kitchener in the junior league, he was already father. In the NHL Amateur Draft 1971, he was drafted as a 20 in round 2 of the Montreal Canadiens, the same year in which the Canadiens brought to 1 Guy Lafleur. The Canadiens were the reigning Stanley Cup champion and occupies excellent in defense. You had to be a star, to acquire a place in this team and both physically and technically strong Robinson was taken by his coach Al MacNeil in the AHL with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs to a star.
For the Canadiens, he formed together with Guy Lapointe and Serge Savard, the "Big Three" and his spectacular body check in the Finals in 1976 applies to Philadelphia warhorse Gary Dornhoefer as a decisive moment in which the Canadiens around tore the rudder and this year the Stanley Cup outdated. For Robinson, it was the second title after 1973 and in the following years 1977, 1978 and 1979, he was allowed to hold the cup in my hands again. Larry had an incredible presence on the ice and we had a lot of respect for him. It usually rich when, in a dispute between to calm things went. After his sixth Cup win in 1986, he moved to the Los Angeles Kings. In Team Canada he played in 1976, 1981 and 1987 at Canada Cup.
After end of his career he was two years assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils. From 1995 to 1999, he returned for three years as coach of the Los Angeles Kings. The next stop was at the Devils where he was an assistant coach again again, but at the end of the season took over the team in 2000 and won the Stanley Cup. In 2002 he finished his coaching career there, but came back in the summer of 2005, replacing the diseased Pat Burns. On 19 December 2005, he resigned his office, since he himself realized that he got health problems due to the stress, but is still active as an assistant coach of the Devils.
In 1995 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, and on 19 November 2007, the Montreal Canadiens hung his jersey number 19 as a banner on the roof of the Bell Centre, which is thus given to any player of the franchise more.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup: 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1986 ( as a player ); 1995 and 2003 ( as assistant coach ); 2000 ( as coach )
Personal Awards
- First All -Star Team: 1977, 1979 and 1980
- Second All-Star Team: 1978, 1981 and 1986
- James Norris Memorial Trophy: 1977 and 1980
- Conn Smythe Trophy: 1978
Records
- 20 consecutive years in the playoffs