Rob Murphy (ice hockey)
Canadian ice hockey player
Robert Murphy (born April 7, 1969) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Murphy played parts of seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1987 and 1994 with the Vancouver Canucks, Ottawa Senators, and Los Angeles Kings. Selected by the Canucks in the 1987 NHL entry draft, Murphy turned professional in 1988 and spent the next five seasons playing for the Canucks and their minor International Hockey League (IHL) affiliate. He followed that by stints with the Senators and Kings, going between the NHL and IHL and the American Hockey League (AHL) until moving to the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany in 1997, playing the last six years of his career there. After retiring as a player, Murphy became an ice hockey scout, eventually becoming the director of pro scouting for both the Buffalo Sabres and then the Ottawa Senators.
Early life
Murphy is from Aylmer, Quebec (now a sector of Gatineau) whose father worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Fluently bilingual in English and French, Murphy studied at a French college in Montreal.
Playing career
Junior career
Murphy was selected by the Trois-Rivières Draveurs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) in the third round of the 1986 QMJHL draft. Before playing a game for the Draveurs, he was traded to the Laval Titan for center Paul Ouellette. In his first season with Laval, the 1986–87 season, Murphy scored 35 goals and 89 points in 70 games and three goals and seven points in seven games in the playoffs.
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