Mike Murphy (ice hockey, born 1950)

Mike Murphy ( born September 12, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach of present and functionary, who in his active years from 1968 to 1983 among others for the St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings has played in the National Hockey League.

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Career

Mike Murphy began his career as a hockey player with the Toronto Marlboros, for which he was active from 1968 to 1970 in the junior league Ontario Hockey Association. He was then selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1970 in the second round than a total of 25 players from the New York Rangers. First, however, he played in the 1970/71 season for the Omaha Knights of the Central Hockey League. This season, he was elected to the second all-star team in the league and won the Ken McKenzie Trophy as rookie of the year, the CHL. In Omaha, he also started the following season before he was released on November 15, 1971 with Jack Eger and Andre Dupont in exchange for Gene Carr, Jim Lorentz and Wayne Connelly to the St. Louis Blues. In the St. Louis Blues, he sat down as a regular player in the National Hockey League by, before he returned in March 1973 in exchange for Ab DeMarco to the New York Rangers. Even in his second attempt at Rangers, he could not prevail with them, after which he was released in November 1973 along with Sheldon Kannegiesser and Tom Williams in exchange for Gilles Marcotte and Real Lemieux to the Los Angeles Kings. There he was one of the leading players in the next ten years. In addition, the Canadians represented his team in the NHL All-Star Game in 1980. Subsequent to the 1982/83 season he finished his career at the age of 32 years.

For the 1984/85 season Murphy was hired as an assistant coach under Pat Quinn by the Los Angeles Kings. Over the 1986/87 season, he broke from Quinn to the position as head coach and was defeated at the end of the season with his team in the first round of the playoffs for the Stanley Cup. At the start of the following season, he was released again after a weak start of the Kings. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as an assistant coach with the NHL League rival Vancouver Canucks. In the 1990/91 season, he served as head coach of the Milwaukee Admirals of the International Hockey League in the first playoff round to the Turner Cup. He spent the following three years as an assistant with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL before he spent two years working in same function for the League rival New York Rangers. From 1996 to 1998, he returned as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, failed with his team but in two seasons at the playoff qualification. Most recently he worked in the 2000 /01 season as assistant coach of the Ottawa Senators. In the following years he worked for the National Hockey League itself. First, he was Vice President of Hockey Operations and from 2008 Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations.

Internationally

For Canada, Murphy participated in the 1978 World Cup, where he won the bronze medal with his team.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

NHL stats

Family

Mike Murphy has three sons named Patrick, Ryan and Sean, who were as professional hockey players as both his brother Daryl Evans and Vic Venasky. His nephew Julian Melchiori currently plays for the St. John's IceCaps.

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