Bryan Murray

Bryan Clarence Murray (born December 5, 1942 in Shawville, Quebec, Canada) is currently the general manager of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously been general manager of the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Florida Panthers and Detroit Red Wings. He was also the head coach for Detroit and was the head coach for the Washington Capitals. In other leagues, he has been head coach of the American Hockey League's Hershey Bears and Western Hockey League's Regina Pats. Bryan's brother, Terry Murray, is the head coach for the Los Angeles Kings.

Hockey career

Murray played hockey in his hometown of Shawville growing up, joining the Shawville Pontiacs intermediate club at age fourteen and later joined the Rockland Nats of the Central Junior Hockey League. He attended Macdonald College, a suburban campus of McGill University, which is located in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., and returned to Shawville and worked as a gym teacher. He then went into business buying a local motel.

Murray began his hockey career as a part time coach with Pembroke of the CJHL. He earned a good reputation as a coach and was offered a job by the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League. He left his business interests in the hands of family members, and moved west. After taking Regina to the Memorial Cup, Murray moved to the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, where he won coach of the year. The next year he became head coach of the Washington Capitals.

In seven seasons with Washington, Murray brought the team to the playoffs each year, and won the Jack Adams Award in 1984. In 1990, after being replaced by his brother in Washington, he became coach and general manager of the Detroit Red Wings. The team had mixed results in his four seasons.

Murray next was appointed the general manager of the expansion Florida Panthers. In 1996, the young Panthers made it to the Stanley Cup Finals, and Murray was selected as NHL Executive of the Year. From 2002–2004 Murray was general manager of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, and again saw his team quickly make a mark in the playoffs, reaching the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals. After a disappointing 2003–2004 season with the Mighty Ducks, he surprised many by deciding to resign from the GM post in Anaheim and move 'home' to become head coach of the Senators.

On February 20, 2007, he became the fifth NHL coach to achieve 600 victories, in a shootout win against the Edmonton Oilers. Despite this impressive number of victories (at the time the most among active NHL coaches), Murray has yet to win a Stanley Cup. In his most recent trip to the Finals as head coach, the Senators team that he coached lost to his former club, the Anaheim Ducks.

Murray was promoted to general manager of the Senators on June 18, 2007, and assistant coach John Paddock took over the head coach duties. However, on February 27, 2008, Murray fired Paddock after the team struggled through January and February, despite a 15–2 start. Murray served as head coach for the remainder of the 2007–08 season, with the team finishing in seventh place in the Eastern Conference. His team was swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Pittsburgh Penguins. Craig Hartsburg was hired as the new coach of the team in June 2008. After struggling for most of the 2008–09 NHL season, Murray fired Hartsburg after a 7-4 loss in Washington. In 48 games as head coach of the Ottawa Senators, Hartsburg posted a 17-24-7 record. Cory Clouston, head coach of the Binghamton Senators was hired as interim head coach.

Personal life

Murray is one of ten children of Clarence and Rhoda Murray, was born and raised in the small Ottawa Valley town of Shawville, Quebec, near Ottawa. Murray and his wife, Geri, have two daughters, Heide and Brittany.

Coaching record

Transaction Record as GM

Detroit

• November 27, 1990: Traded Lee Norwood to the New Jersey Devils for Paul Ysebaert.
• February 4, 1991: Acquired Brad Marsh from the Toronto Maple Leafs for Detroit's eighth round pick (Robb McIntyre) in 1991 Entry Draft.
• February 20, 1991: Traded Doug Houda to the Hartford Whalers for Doug Crossman.
• March 5, 1991: Acquired Allan Bester from the Toronto Maple Leafs for Detroit's sixth round pick in 1991 Entry Draft.
• March 5, 1991: Traded Joey Kocur and Per Djoos to the New York Rangers for Kevin Miller, Jim Cummins and Dennis Vial.
• October 18, 1991: Traded Rick Zombo to the St. Louis Blues for Vincent Riendeau.
• December 18, 1991: Traded Daniel Shank to the Hartford Whalers for Chris Tancill
• March 10, 1992: Traded Johan Garpenlov to the San Jose Sharks for Bob McGill and a 1992 8th round draft choice.
• December 26, 1991: Acquired Greg Millen from the New York Rangers for future considerations.
• June 22, 1992: Traded Doug Crossman and Dennis Vial to the Quebec Nordiques for cash considerations.
• January 29, 1993: Traded Jimmy Carson, Gary Shuchuk and Marc Potvin to the Los Angeles Kings for Paul Coffey, Sylvain Couturier and Jim Hiller.
• March 22, 1993: Acquired Steve Konroyd from the Hartford Whalers for a sixth round draft choice in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
• January 17, 1994: Traded Vincent Riendeau to the Boston Bruins for a 1995 conditional draft pick.
• March 8, 1994: Traded Tim Cheveldae and Dallas Drake to the Winnipeg Jets for Bob Essensa and Sergei Bautin.
• March 21, 1994: Traded Steve Konroyd traded to the Ottawa Senators for Daniel Berthiaume.

Florida

• February 28, 1996: Acquired Ray Sheppard from the San Jose Sharks for future considerations
• March 15, 1996: Claimed Martin Straka off waivers from the New York Islanders.
• March 20, 1996: Traded Jesse Belanger to the Vancouver Canucks for Vancouver's third round pick in 1996 Entry Draft and future considerations.
• November 19, 1996: Traded Stu Barnes and Jason Woolley to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Chris Wells.
• March 18, 1997: Acquired Kirk Muller from the Toronto Maple Leafs for Jason Podollan.
• January 16, 1998: Traded Mark Fitzpatrick and Jody Hull to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Jeff Norton and Dino Ciccarelli.
• March 24, 1998: Traded Tom Fitzgerald to the Colorado Avalanche for the rights of Mark Parrish and Anaheim's third round pick in 1998 Entry Draft (previously acquired).
• March 24, 1998: Acquired Kirk McLean from the Carolina Hurricanes for Ray Sheppard.
• November 11, 1998: Traded Jeff Norton to the San Jose Sharks for Alex Hicks and round 5 pick in the 1999 draft (Adam Johnson)
• January 17, 1999: Acquired Pavel Bure, Bret Hedican, Brad Ference and Vancouver's 3rd round draft choice (Robert Fried) in 2000, from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes and Florida's 1st round draft choice (Nathan Smith) in 2000
• March 14, 2000: Traded Ryan Johnson and Dwayne Hay to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Mike Sillinger.
• June 24, 2000: Traded Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha to the New York Islanders for Olli Jokinen and Roberto Luongo.

Anaheim

• July 3, 2002: Traded Jeff Friesen, Oleg Tverdovsky and Maxim Balmochnykh to the New Jersey Devils for Petr Sýkora, Mike Commodore, Jean-François Damphousse and Igor Pohanka.
• January 30, 2003: Traded Pavel Trnka, Matt Cullen and Anaheim's 2003 4th round draft choice to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Sandis Ozolinsh and Lance Ward.
• March 11, 2003: Traded Mike Commodore and Jean-François Damphousse to the Calgary Flames for Rob Niedermayer.
• March 11, 2003: Acquired Steve Thomas from the Chicago Blackhawks for a 2003 fifth round draft pick (Alexei Ivanov).
• January 17, 2004 : Traded Todd Reirden to the Phoenix Coyotes for future considerations.
• February 4, 2004: Traded Todd Simpson to the Ottawa Senators for Petr Schastlivy.
• February 21, 2004: Traded Kurt Sauer and a 2005 4th round pick to the Colorado Avalanche for Martin Skoula.

Ottawa

• July 17, 2007 – Traded Peter Schaefer to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Shean Donovan
• February 11, 2008 – Traded Joe Corvo and Patrick Eaves to the Carolina Hurricanes for Mike Commodore and Cory Stillman.
• February 26, 2008 – Traded a sixth-round draft pick in 2008 (#169, Ben Smith) to the Chicago Blackhawks for Martin Lapointe
• June 25, 2008 - Traded Brian McGrattan to the Phoenix Coyotes for the Boston Bruins' fifth-round draft pick in 2009 (#146, Jeff Costello)
• August 29, 2008 – Traded Andrej Meszaros to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Filip Kuba, Alexandre Picard and San Jose's first-round draft pick (previously acquired) in 2009.^[1][2]
• September 2, 2008 – Traded Lawrence Nycholat to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Ryan Shannon
• November 10, 2008 - Traded Alexander Nikulin to the Phoenix Coyotes for Drew Fata
• February 20, 2009 – Traded Dean McAmmond and San Jose's first-round draft pick in 2009 (#26, Kyle Palmieri) to the New York Islanders in exchange for Mike Comrie and Chris Campoli
• March 4, 2009 - Traded Antoine Vermette to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Pascal Leclaire and a second-round draft pick in 2009 (#46, Robin Lehner).
• September 12, 2009 - Traded Dany Heatley and a fifth-round draft pick in 2010 to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Milan Michalek, Jonathan Cheechoo and San Jose's second-round draft pick in 2010.

Education

Bryan Murray attended Pontiac High School.

References

External links

• Ottawa Sun profile