Andy Murray (ice hockey)
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| Sport(s) | Ice hockey |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Western Michigan |
| Conference | NCHC |
| Record | 40–25–14 (.595) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 3, 1951 Gladstone, Manitoba |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1976–78 | Brandon Travelers |
| 1978–81 | Brandon University |
| 1981–84 | Kloten Flyers |
| 1984–87 | EV Zug |
| 1987–88 | Hershey Bears (asst.) |
| 1988–90 | Philadelphia Flyers (asst.) |
| 1990–92 | Minnesota North Stars (asst.) |
| 1992–93 | HC Lugano |
| 1993–95 | Winnipeg Jets (asst.) |
| 1996–98 | Canada |
| 1998–99 | Shattuck-Saint Mary's |
| 1998–99 | Kölner Haie (GM) |
| 1999–06 | Los Angeles Kings |
| 2006–10 | St. Louis Blues |
| 2011–pres | Western Michigan |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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1997 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2003 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2012 CCHA Tournament Champions 2013 Great Lakes Invitational Champions 2016 Great Lakes Invitational Champions |
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| Awards | |
| 2012 IIHF Hall of Fame (builder) | |
Andy Murray (born March 3, 1951) is the current head coach for the Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey team of the NCAA Division I National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC). He is a former head coach of the Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League.
Murray has 20 years of NHL experience as an assistant or head coach. He has also coached at the junior, high school, and college levels, as well as in the North American minor leagues and European professional leagues.
Andy Murray's family had an auto dealership in Souris, Manitoba that was started by Murray's grandfather. Once Murray was old enough, he began to work there. In 1976, when Murray was 25 years old, his uncle hired him to be the coach of the Brandon Travellers after a brawl. Three years later, he got the head-coaching job at Brandon University in Manitoba while still working at the dealership during the day. In 1981, his father died the day after a victory that qualified Brandon for a National tournament. After that season, he needed to get away, and took a coaching job in Switzerland. In 1988, he went to the United States to be the assistant coach for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League. That year, the Bears won the AHL championship and the Calder Cup, and he was promoted as an assistant coach of the Philadelphia Flyers under head coach Paul Holmgren. He spent two years there before joining as an assistant coach with the Minnesota North Stars under head coach Bob Gainey, where the team made it to the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals. In 1992, he went back to Switzerland to coach for Lugano. Two months later, he quit because of a fan revolt and is replaced by former head coach John Sletvoll. After that, he took a job in Germany before returning to assistant coaching with the Winnipeg Jets under John Paddock, where he stayed until 1995. Murray was named the coach of the Canadian National Hockey Team in 1996, a post he held until 1998. He served as head coach at Shattuck-St. Mary's School for the 1998–99 season.
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