Ron Wilson (ice hockey b. 1955)
Ronald Lawrence Wilson ( born May 28, 1955 in Windsor, Ontario ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach with a Canadian passport. From 1977 to 1988 he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League as well as for the EHC Kloten and HC Davos in the Swiss National League A on the position of the defender. Recently Wilson was head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL. Previously, he has organized the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Washington Capitals and San Jose Sharks.
- 3.1 As a player 3.1.1 International
- 3.2.1 International
Career
The Canadian-born Wilson grew up in Riverside, Rhode Iceland. During his youth, he played for the Providence College in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In WHA Amateur Draft in 1974, he was pulled from the Houston Aeros in the twelfth round as 112. A year later, the NHL Amateur Draft 1975, the Toronto Maple Leafs secured in the eighth round as the 132nd rights for the NHL. In the same year he also played with Team USA at the World Ice Hockey Championship 1975 in Germany. There, however, he finished last with his team devoid of points. Wilson stayed two more years in Providence before he even contributed to the end of the season 1976/77 for four games the jersey of the Dallas Blackhawks in the Central Hockey League.
After he began in Dallas the following year, he came in the 1977/ 78 in Toronto for his NHL debut. It was followed by two more seasons in which he, however, more often in the American Hockey League aground for the New Brunswick Hawks, as for the Maple Leafs. Since Wilson, who had always been a dominant player in college and the minor leagues, the NHL breakthrough failed, he moved to Switzerland in 1980. Here he first played for EHC Kloten and was at the Ice Hockey World Championship 1981 in Sweden again for the United States active. It was followed by four seasons with the HC Davos. At the end of the 1984/85 season he again played a few games for the Minnesota North Stars. Also, the following year he spent partly in Davos and partly in Minnesota. The 1986/87 season he played again in full for the North Stars. His third World Cup, he played in 1987 in Austria. After the 1987/88 season, he had begun again in Davos, finishing in Minnesota, he joined the NHL as a player back stage.
In 1988, he went to Zurich SC in the National League B, but where he could not meet the expectations of him as Captain and joined as coach of the year for HC Davos in the National League A. With the HCD he did not make the league and has been released after a few weeks. Then a position as assistant coach of the Moncton Hawks of the American Hockey League, as well as with the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL. The newly formed Mighty Ducks of Anaheim committed to him as their first coach at the beginning of the game 1993 / 94th There he was four years running before he signed a contract for the 1997/98 season with the Washington Capitals. Here he reached in the first year with the team to the Stanley Cup finals, where the Detroit Red Wings were a not -overcoming opponents. Five years remained Wilson in Washington and went for the first time without a team in the 2002/ 03 season. But during the season studied the San Jose Sharks a new head coach and Wilson took over on 4 December 2002 the post. There he was active until the end of the season 2007/ 08. In addition to winning two division titles with the Sharks, Wilson stood by his team's game against the Colorado Avalanche on March 18, 2007 1,000 times as a coach in an NHL game behind the gang. He was the only 13th coach in the history of the league to have managed this.
The 500th win of his career Wilson celebrated almost a year later, 9 February 2008 in a 4-3 home win against the Sharks, the Nashville Predators. This milestone was successfully accomplished by only ten other coaches. After it was Wilson in his four and a half seasons with San Jose not been able to win the Stanley Cup and was last failed three times in a row with the team in the second playoff round, the Franchise separated on 12 May 2008 by him. However, Wilson did not stay long without a team because some teams were on coach search after the season. He finally decided on 10 June 2008 a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs, for which he had given as a player in 1977 his NHL debut to sign over four years. On 11 January 2011, Wilson recorded his 600th win as a coach in the NHL, as the Maple Leafs won 4-2 at the San Jose Sharks. He was the seventh coach in the league, who reached this milestone. On 2 March 2012, he was after a negative series, in which the Toronto Maple Leafs had last only eleven NHL games won one and also again threatened to fail to qualify for the playoffs, ousted and replaced by Randy Carlyle in this function.
Twice Wilson was nominated for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL 's best coach. He was also coach of Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998 and 2010 in Vancouver, at the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 and 2004 and at the World Championships in 1994 and 1996.
Awards and achievements
As a player
As a coach
Career Stats
As a player
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- 1981 World Championship
- 1987 World Championships
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )
As a coach
Internationally
Supervised the U.S. at:
- World Cup 1994
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- 1998 Winter Olympics
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- World Cup 2009
- 2010 Winter Olympics
(Legend to coach statistics: Sp or GC = Total Games; W or S = scored victories, L or N = scored Losses, T or U = scored draw; OTL or OTN = scored Losses after Overtime or Shootout; Pts or Pts = points scored, Win % = winning percentage, result = round reached in the play- offs )
Family
His father Larry Wilson and his uncle Johnny Wilson were Hockey Coaches and trained, among others, the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League. Johnny from 1971 to 1973 and Larry in the 1976 / 77th