Phil Watson
Philip Henri Watson ( born October 24, 1914 in Montréal, Québec, † 1 February 1991) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active years from 1935 to 1948 among others for the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League has played.
Career
Phil Watson began his career as a hockey player with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, where he was awarded a contract as a free agent on 27 October 1935. In his rookie year, the attacker gave two assists in 24 games. In addition, he ran to 22 games for the Philadelphia Ramblers of the Canadian - American Hockey League, for whom he scored nine goals in 22 games and had five assists. With the New York Rangers, he won in the 1939/40 season for the first time the prestigious Stanley Cup. He could repeat with the Montreal Canadiens from his hometown this success in the 1943/44 season, after which he returned to the Rangers for the NHL he was until 1948 a further four years on the ice.
Following his playing career Watson was 1949-1951 served as head coach for the New York Rovers of the Quebec Senior Hockey League and later the Eastern Hockey League. Then he worked until 1954 in the same capacity for the Quebec citadels of the Ontario Hockey Association. Subsequently, the former NHL player paused for several years with ice hockey before he oversaw the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League in the 1960/61 season. He then took over as coach Milt Schmidt the NHL team the Boston Bruins, where he is already at the beginning of the season 1962/63 due to lack of success - Watson won with Boston only 16 of 82 games - was again replaced by his predecessor. The two-time Stanley Cup winner from 1964 to 1967, coach at the Buffalo Bisons and Quebec Aces in the AHL. During the 1972/73 season he was once again working for the Philadelphia Blazers of the newly formed World Hockey Association, before he ended his career.