You just try and be there for him."īlood is thicker than water, as Sabres coach Ted Nolan said this year before facing his son Jordan. He's just like any other 21-year-old, there's highs and lows and growing pains. It's just about being a dad, being there for support, building him up. "I stay away from details," Gord Murphy said. When Connor was a healthy scratch for a few games, Gord Murphy didn't morph into coach mode. Flyers video coach Adam Patterson will load the Coyotes' game tape onto his laptop along with the Flyers' most recent action for review. Now, he catches most of Connor's games on his laptop. He came back to score the overtime goal in the gold medal game against Sweden in the World Under 18 Championships, cementing his first-round draft status. National Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich., because of a chronic lower-back injury. Prior to his draft, Connor Murphy had played just 11 games in parts of two seasons with the U.S. Non-traditional NHL markets are pretty much all Connor Murphy knows. He played his first travel hockey in Atlanta, when his dad skated for the Thrashers (1999-2001) and made a name for himself in youth hockey circles in Columbus, where his dad helped coach the Blue Jackets. Gord Murphy was an original Florida Panther, selected by the team in the expansion draft, a year and a half after posting 128 points in 261 games with the Flyers from 1988-1992.Ĭonnor Murphy was born in Boston, but learned to skate in South Florida. His road to the show was a long and bumpy one, derailed by one injury after another, starting with an unusual path. Ulf Samuelsson, Darryl Sutter, Mike Foligno, Ted Nolan and Brent Sutter have all experienced the same unsettling feeling.Ĭonnor Murphy, a defenseman, was selected 12 slots behind Sean Couturier (20th overall) in the 2013 draft. Murphy will become the sixth father in the last six seasons to coach agains his son at the NHL level. He hasn't watched Connor play live all season and his first glimpse will be from the bench when Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek go toe-to-toe with his 21-year-old boy.
It felt completely different and foreign to me." Everything I had gone through, the hundreds of games, it wasn't the same thing. I went through so many more emotions and nerves than I ever did as a player or coach. "It was surreal," said Gord Murphy, who was out of coaching at the time.
Nothing could prepare him for the rush of watching his son, Connor, make his NHL debut with the Coyotes on Nov. He has been on the bench for another 871 games as an assistant coach. He knew his emotions got the best of him here in the desert last November. Tonight is the game on the Flyers' schedule that assistant coach Gord Murphy has been dreading.
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