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Ron Duguay
Ice Hockey Player
Male
Born
Jul 6, 1957
Age
55
Hometown
Canada
Position
Centre
Draft Year
1977
Ronald Duguay is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach who played 12 seasons in the NHL from 1977 through 1989, and served four seasons as a minor league coach. He currently appears as an in-studio analyst during MSG Network's coverage… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1957
Birth
Born on July 6, 1957.
TWENTIES
Duguay was drafted 13th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft.
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1980
23 Years Old
While with the Rangers, Duguay set a team record, for the fastest goal at the start of a game, at 9 seconds, on April 6, 1980 against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1981
24 Years Old
Suffering injuries, his production did not progress as hoped, but after playing for Team Canada in the 1981 Canada Cup, his play improved, and in 1981–82 led the Rangers in scoring with 40 goals.
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1982
25 Years Old
In 1982–83 Duguay's numbers dipped, and he only scored 19 goals.
Rangers coach Herb Brooks clashed with Duguay over his play and popularity in New York's night life, and on June 13, 1983 Duguay, Eddie Mio and Eddie Johnstone were traded to the Detroit Red Wings, for Willie Huber, Mark Osborne and Mike Blaisdell.
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1984
27 Years Old
In 1984–85 he was second on the Red Wings in all three categories, with 38 goals, 51 assists and 89 total points, the best offensive season of his career.
THIRTIES
Duguay played parts of only two seasons in Pittsburgh, and his production was never as good again as it had been in New York or Detroit. On January 21, 1987, Pittsburgh traded Duguay to his original team, the Rangers, in exchange for Chris Kontos, reuniting Duguay with former teammate, and then-Rangers general manager, Phil Esposito.
1988
31 Years Old
After briefly returning to the Rangers, Duguay finished his NHL career with the Los Angeles Kings in 1988–89.
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1989
32 Years Old
Duguay's career continued in the minor leagues for a few years after his final NHL season. He played 22 games in Europe with Mannheim ERC (German Bundesliga) during the 1989–90 season, then returned to the United States where he played two seasons in the IHL with the San Diego Gulls.
1991
34 Years Old
Following the 1991–92 season he retired, but three years later resumed playing, again, for the San Diego Gulls, who were now members of the WCHL.
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FORTIES
1998
41 Years Old
In 1998–99 he jumped to the Jacksonville Lizard Kings of the (ECHL), but skated in just one game before commencing his second retirement.
In 2003 he joined the Jacksonville Barracudas, then playing in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League.
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2005
48 Years Old
Duguay resigned as coach after an unsuccessful 2005–06 season, in which more than 50 different players left the team as it finished with a 15–39–0–2 record.
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FIFTIES
On March 21 and 22, 2009, nearly six years after playing his final professional game, Duguay played two games in the EPHL, one game each with the Brooklyn Aces and the Jersey Rockhoppers, to raise money for the Garden of Dreams Foundation, a nonprofit organization associated with Madison Square Garden.
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