Terry Murray
Terry Rodney Murray ( born July 20, 1950 in Shawville, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defender and current coach. Since the end of June 2012, he serves as head coach of the Adirondack Phantoms of the American Hockey League.
Career as a player
Terry Murray began his career in 1967 with the Ottawa 67 's in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey Association, where he played alongside the later NHL player 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 NHL Amateur Draft 1970 at position 88. After he was changed in the summer of 1970 to the pros and the first two years spent at several unterklassigen teams, he came in the 1972/73 season for the first time in the National Hockey League action and denied for the Golden Seals 23 games, spent the majority of the year but still in second-rate Western Hockey League.
In the following season he finally belonged to the tribe squad of Golden Seals and was able to prepare a total of twelve goals in 58 games, 1974/75 to its frequency of use in the NHL limited but again significantly and he played in the Central Hockey League for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles, with whom he won the Adams Cup.
After he received a new contract more in the summer of 1975 at the Golden Seals, he moved within the NHL for the Philadelphia Flyers, but played initially for their farm team, the Richmond Robins of the American Hockey League, where he won with 56 points in 67 games and First All-Star Team was elected to the AHL. He also came for the Flyers six times in the playoffs for the use, when they reached the Stanley Cup final. Murray was then performed in the 1976/77 season to the NHL squad of Philadelphia and played in 36 games before he was transferred in February 1977 to the Detroit Red Wings, where he finished the season.
In November 1977, the Flyers him brought back, but he played almost exclusively in the AHL for the Maine Mariners, where he became a key player, twice won consecutive Eddie Shore Award as the best defender and with the Mariners twice the Calder Cup won. Although Murray played in the 1979/80 season a rather weak year for the Mariners, in the autumn of 1980 he succeeded in re- dip in the NHL squad the Flyers. In 71 games, he hit 18 scorer points, including his first NHL goal.
Shortly before the start of the 1981/82 season he committed the Washington Capitals NHL Waiver Draft on the Terry Murray and thus played under the guidance of his older brother, Bryan Murray, who was coach of the team at this time. He completed his best NHL season with three goals and 22 assists and finished in the summer of 1982 his active career.
Career as a coach
Terry Murray but remained the Washington Capitals organization and was received in the fall of 1982, assistant coach of the team, which for the first time two brothers stood behind the band of a NHL team. Until 1988, both worked together before Terry Murray to head coach of the Capitals farm team, the Baltimore Skipjacks of the AHL, was appointed. His first season was rather weak, as the Skipjacks only occupied twelfth place of the comprehensive 14-team league. However, the team with 30 wins from 80 league games has increased significantly compared to the previous year, when they won just 13 games and were clearly defeated last.
A further increase could list the Skipjacks during 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 had dismissed his brother. He led the Capitals still in the same season after beating the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers to the Conference Finals, where they but clearly failed due to the Boston Bruins. After an average season 1990/91, the Capitals ended the following regular season as the second best team in the league and they showed good performance, success in the playoffs, however, failed to materialize. When the team in the 1993/94 season won only 20 of the 47 previously disputed games, Murray was released in late January 1994.
However, after only a month, he was engaged by the Cincinnati Cyclones of the IHL as head coach, who acted as a farm team of the Florida Panthers. Murray managed the team is still in the last 28 games of the season, returned in the summer of 1994 but returned to the NHL, where he took over the Philadelphia Flyers as coach. In the following two years, the Flyers were able to establish at the top of the league after the first place in the Atlantic Division in season 1994/95 was followed by the peak position in the Eastern Conference, only the success in the playoffs remained from the time being. 1995 Murray has been nominated as one of three candidates for the Jack Adams Award. In the season 1996/97 Murray led the team to superstar Eric Lindros finally to the finals for the Stanley Cup, but there they were governed by the Detroit Red Wings.
Despite three successful seasons Murray was discontinued in the summer of 1997 as coach of the Flyers and worked for a year as a scout for the team. From the 1998/99 season he again worked with his brother, the general manager of the Florida Panthers was now and Terry Murray committed as a coach of the franchise. After the Panthers missed the playoffs in the first year, they played in the following year, until then best season in its history with 43 wins from 82 games, but in the first round of the playoffs they failed significantly to the New Jersey Devils. In the following season 2000/ 01, however, the Panthers started weak and on 28 December 2000 Murray was fired.
In the summer of 2001 he returned again to the Philadelphia Flyers, where he spent two years as a scout before he aufrückte in the coaching staff in 2003 and assistant coach Ken Hitchcock and from October 2006 under John Stevens. In time, the Flyers reached the finals twice in the Eastern Conference.
On July 17, 2008 Terry Murray took over for the first time in nearly eight years back a head coach post, as the Los Angeles Kings committed him. In December 2011, he was relieved of his duties with the Kings, after which he was obliged to end of June 2012 as head coach of the Adirondack Phantoms of the American Hockey League.