Ron Duguay

Infobox Ice Hockey Player
position = Centre
shot = Right
height_ft = 6
height_in = 02
weight_lb = 210
played_for = New York Rangers
Detroit Red Wings
Pittsburgh Penguins
Los Angeles Kings
league = NHL
nationality = CAN
birth_date = Birth date and age|1957|7|6|mf=y
birth_place = Sudbury, ON, CAN)
career_start = 1977
career_end = 1989
draft = 13th overall
draft_year = 1977
draft_team = New York Rangers
wha_draft = 3rd overall
wha_draft_year = 1976
wha_draft_team = Winnipeg Jets


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Ron Duguay (born July 6, 1957 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach who played 12 seasons in the NHL between 1977 and 1989, and served four seasons as a minor league coach.

Career

Duguay was drafted 13th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft. He played 864 career NHL games, scoring 274 goals and 346 assists for 620 points. His best offensive season in the league was the 1984–85 season while playing for the Detroit Red Wings, when he recorded 38 goals and 89 points. The following season he was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins. After briefly returning to the Rangers, Duguay finished his NHL career with the Los Angeles Kings in 1988–89. He continued playing in the minor leagues for a few years, though, with the San Diego Gulls and Long Beach Ice Dogs of the International Hockey League.

In the NHL, Duguay was noted for his long curly hair which would blow behind him as he skated without a helmet. In the 1970s he was more widely known as a pop icon and a sex symbol than for his athletic talents. He appeared in a TV commercial for Sassoon Jeans. In the 1990s Duguay married former fashion model Kim Alexis.

After marrying Alexis, Duguay moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. In 2003 he joined the Jacksonville Barracudas, then playing in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. Duguay played six games as a Barracudas forward, then took over as the team's head coach.

In the 2003–2004 season Duguay led the Barracudas, now playing in the World Hockey Association 2, to the league's best record and playoff championship. In 2004 the Barracudas joined the newly-formed Southern Professional Hockey League.

With Duguay as coach, the Barracudas' overall record over 3 1/4 seasons was 92–92–0–3 with a 6–3 playoff record. Duguay resigned as coach after an unsuccessful 2005–06 season, in which more than 50 different players left the team as it limped to a 15–39–0–2 record. On his resignation, he told the Florida Times-Union that he was "tired."

References

*Schneider, J., "'Cudas Coach Steps Aside", "Florida Times-Union", April 9, 2006.

External links

* [http://www.jaxcudas.com Jacksonville Barracudas]
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