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There’s players with a lot of experience and they all bring something different to the table. ‘It’s a strong unit,’ Murphy said of the Flyers’ blue liners. He’ll be looking to spur his new defensive unit on to similar heights. Through a 14-year NHL career with four teams, including a stay with the Flyers from 1988-91 and two stints with Boston, Murphy was a steady defenseman with an effective offensive twist. That should leave Murphy with plenty to do. He was first demoted just prior to the start of the 2013 half-season from assistant GM to assistant coach, and now sent packing altogether. Now Paddock, who would have been a natural to return as assistant GM to Hextall, is gone. That left Paddock – a multiple Calder Cup winner as an AHL head coach, a guy with a wealth of experience at all coaching levels and as a general manager in the NHL – as the voice of experience behind the bench, while fellow assistant Joey Mullen worked a headset up on high. Gord and his wife, Nicole have three children: sons Connor (who currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL) & Tyler, and a daughter, Lexi.That staff figured to change after Berube was promoted on the fly three games into last season and Holmgren brought raw coaching prospect Ian Laperriere into the Flyers’ fold. Barry Ashbee Trophy (Philadelphia Flyers top defenceman): 1989–90 season.On August 2, 2019, Gord was named the associate head coach for the Hartford Wolf Pack, the New York Rangers' AHL-affiliate team.Ĭareer Statistics Regular season and playoffs On June 18, 2014, he was hired as an assistant coach by the Flyers he was fired on Novemafter five seasons. Gord worked as an assistant coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets from the 2002–03 NHL season until he was fired as a part of an overall coaching change on June 16, 2010.Īfter working for Florida Panthers as an assistant coach, Gord was fired on Novemalong with head coach Kevin Dineen and assistant coach Craig Ramsay. He was a member of the 1996 Florida Panthers, who won the Eastern Conference before losing in the Stanley Cup Finals. He also played in 53 Stanley Cup playoff games, scoring three goals and recording 16 assists. He scored 85 goals and added 238 assists.
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In his NHL career, Gord played in 863 games. After playing for one season in the Bruins organization, he officially retired on March 19, 2002. 2-Jan-92, Garry Galley, Wes Walz & 1993 3rd Rounder (Milos Holan) from Boston Bruins for Gord Murphy, Brian Dobbin, 1992 3rd Rounder (Sergi Zholtok) & 1993. Gord spent two seasons in Atlanta playing for the Thrashers before joining the Bruins once again for the 2001–02 season. The Panthers traded him to another expansion team, the Atlanta Thrashers, as part of a deal made in the 1999 NHL Expansion Draft in which the Panthers acquired goaltender Trevor Kidd. Gord was selected by the Florida Panthers in the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft where he played there for six seasons. In January of 1992 after three-plus seasons in Philadelphia, he was traded (along with Brian Dobbin and a 1992 third-round draft choice) to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Garry Galley & Wes Walz. In the 1988–89 season, Gord joined the Flyers.
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After playing three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Oshawa Generals, he made his professional debut with the Flyers' AHL affiliate, the Hershey Bearsin the 1987–88 season. Gord was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the ninth round (189th overall) of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft.