Milbury Mike

Mike Milbury
Mike Milbury
Position	defender
Height	188 cm
The weight	93 kg
Grab
Citizenship	USA
Born	June 17, 1952 (67 years old); Brighton , Massachusetts , USA
NHL draft	was not drafted

Michael James Milbury ( born June 17, 1952) is an American hockey player , coach, manager and sports commentator.

Content

1 Biography
2 Performance Statistics
3 notes
4 Literature
5 Links

Biography

Milbury studied at Colgate University and played as an advocate for the local hockey team. He did not pass the draft , but got into the Boston Bruins system and began playing for their farm club in the AHL Rochester Americans . Milbury also joined the U.S. team at the 1976 Canada Cup .

In the 1975-1976 season, Milbury made his debut in the NHL as part of the Bruins and spent 11 matches in the playoffs. In the next two seasons, he was already the main defender, and the team, led by another future television commentator reached the Stanley Cup finals twice in a row, losing both times to the Montreal Canadiens . Milbury completed his playing career in 1987. For the twelve seasons that he spent in the Bruins, the team only once did not reach the playoffs. Milbury was a defensive defender who preferred power hockey. Twice he scored more than 200 penalty minutes per season, six more times - more than a hundred. Milbury was a representative of the Bruins in the National Hockey League Players Association .

After retirement, Milbury worked as a manager for the AHL Maine Mariners team. In 1988, he received a prize for the best coach of the season in the AHL ( Louis Ey-Pier Pier Memorial Award ; along with John Paddock of Hershey Bears). In 1989, Milbury was appointed coach of Boston. He won the Adams Division twice and led the team to the 1990 Stanley Cup final.

In 1994, Milbury began working as a television analyst at ESPN . He returned to club work in 1995 when the New York Islanders hired him as general manager. Milbury held this position until 2006 and several times assumed the duties of head coach. In the first few seasons, the Islanders were among the outsiders of the league. In 2000, the team changed owners, and Milbury got the opportunity to operate on a large budget. However, financial injections did not allow to achieve anything more than three playoffs with a relegation in the first round. Milbury’s work in the Islanders became a talk of the day because of a number of unsuccessful staffing decisions, such as the exchange of Roberto Luongo and Olli Jokinen for Oleg Kvasha and Mark Parrish , the choice of goalkeeper Rick Dipietro under the first common draft number of 2000 and the acquisition in 2001 Alexei Yashin , for whom the Ottawa Senators received Zdeno Haru and the second general pick draft of 2001 ( Jason Spezza ) and with whom a huge 10-year contract was signed for $ 87.5 million ^[1] ^[2] . In 2006, Milbury moved to another position in the holding of team owner Charles Wong .

Since 2007, Milbury has been working as a hockey commentator and analyst. In the 2007-2008 season, he commented on the New England Sports Network , NBC Sports and The Sports Network . Since 2008, he has been working in the NHL on NBC ( NBC channel) and Hockey Night in Canada ( CBC Sports , since 2014 Rogers Communications ) programs.

Performance Statistics

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	AND	G	GP	ABOUT	Shtr	AND	G	GP	ABOUT	Shtr
1971-72	Colgate university	NASS	25	0	10	10	fifty	-	-	-	-	-
1972-73	Colgate university	NASS	23	2	19	21	68
1973-74	Colgate university	NASS	28	four	26	thirty	85
1973-74	Boston Braves	AHL	5	0	0	0	7	-	-	-	-	-
1974-75	Rochester Americans	AHL	71	2	fifteen	17	246	8	0	3	3	24
1975-76	Rochester Americans	AHL	73	3	fifteen	eighteen	199	3	0	one	one	13
1975-76	Boston Bruins	NHL	3	0	0	0	9	eleven	0	0	0	29th
1976-77	Boston Bruins	NHL	77	6	eighteen	24	166	13	2	2	four	47
1977-78	Boston Bruins	NHL	80	8	thirty	38	151	fifteen	one	8	9	27
1978-79	Boston Bruins	NHL	74	one	34	35	149	eleven	one	7	8	7
1979-80	Boston Bruins	NHL	72	10	13	23	59	10	0	2	2	fifty
1980-81	Boston Bruins	NHL	77	0	eighteen	eighteen	222	2	0	one	one	10
1981-82	Boston Bruins	NHL	51	2	10	22	71	eleven	0	four	four	-6
1982-83	Boston Bruins	NHL	78	9	fifteen	24	216	-	-	-	-	-
1983-84	Boston Bruins	NHL	74	2	17	19	159	3	0	0	0	12
1984-85	Boston Bruins	NHL	78	3	13	16	152	5	0	0	0	10
1985-86	Boston Bruins	NHL	22	2	5	7	102	one	0	0	0	17
1986-87	Boston Bruins	NHL	68	6	16	22	96	four	0	0	0	four
Total in the AHL			149	5	thirty	35	452	eleven	0	four	four	37
Total in the NHL			754	49	189	238	1552	86	four	24	28	219

Notes

↑ The Best and Worst of Mike Milbury ( Neopr .) . Sports Illustrated (April 4, 2012). Date of treatment June 26, 2014.
↑ Sicard, F. New York Islanders: What Could Have Been? (unspecified) . Bleacher Report (September 9, 2009). Date of treatment June 26, 2014.

Literature

Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler. Who's Who in Hockey. - Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003 .-- 459 p. - ISBN 9780740719042 .

Links

Mike Milbury - Stats at The Internet Hockey Database
Mike Milbury - Profile on the NHL Website
Legends of Hockey Biography

[1] The Best and Worst of Mike Milbury ( Neopr .) . Sports Illustrated (April 4, 2012). Date of treatment June 26, 2014.

[2] Sicard, F. New York Islanders: What Could Have Been? (unspecified) . Bleacher Report (September 9, 2009). Date of treatment June 26, 2014.