Ronnie Wood (ice hockey)

This article is about the British ice hockey player. For the rock guitarist and bassist, see Ron Wood.
Ronnie Wood
Born (1960-11-13) 13 November 1960
Scotland, GBR
Position Forward
Played for Murrayfield Racers
Dundee Rockets
Fife Flyers
Tayside Tigers
Solihull Barons
Ayr Bruins
Sheffield Steelers
Playing career 1980–1993

Ronnie Wood (born 13 November 1960) is a retired Scottish professional ice hockey player who played between 1980 and 1993 in the United Kingdom. He is credited, with David Gardner-Brown, for creating the Sheffield Steelers in 1991,[1] for whom he was also the General Manager between 1991 and February 1993.[2]

Playing career

After making his senior level debut in the 1980–81 season for the Murrayfield Racers, who he helped to win the Northern League, Wood joined the Dundee Rockets for the 1981–82 season. He played for Dundee for the next six season, helping them to win the Northern League and the Scottish National League in 1981–82, the Autumn Cup in 1983, the British Hockey League in 1982–83 and 1983–84 and the playoffs in 1982, 1983 and 1984.

Wood joined the Fife Flyers for the 1987–88 and 1988–89 seasons before he joined the Tayside Tigers for the end of the 1988–89 season. He then joined the Solihull Barons for the start of the 1989–90 season, which he finished with the Ayr Bruins before returning to Solihull for the 1990–91 season.

After Solihull folded in 1991, he helped form the Sheffield Steelers with David Gardner-Brown and played for them for the next two seasons, helping them gain promotion from English League Division 1 to the British League Division 1 and then the Premier Division. In 1998 Wood moved to South Africa where he coaches at club, Provincial and National Team level. He has coached South African Senior National men's team To Silver in I.I.H.F.World s Div 3 and is currently coaching in Cape Town.

Honours and awards

Records

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1980–81 Murrayfield Racers Northern (UK) 33 58 33 91 48
1981–82 Dundee Rockets Northern (UK) 14 29 26 55 20
1981–82 Dundee Rockets SNL 8 20 24 44 10
1982–83 Dundee Rockets BHL 3 4 2 6 2
1983–84 Dundee Rockets BHL 31 62 57 119 34 6 8 5 13 8
1984–85 Dundee Rockets BHL 33 56 47 103 50
1985–86 Dundee Rockets BHL 36 33 41 74 36 6 5 3 8 18
1986–87 Dundee Rockets BHL 36 64 60 124 47 5 4 9 13 2
1987–88 Fife Flyers BHL 32 17 25 42 8 6 6 6 12 4
1988–89 Fife Flyers BHL 20 23 28 51 20
1988–89 Tayside Tigers BHL 14 15 16 31 12
1989–90 Solihull Barons BHL 27 18 18 36 16
1989–90 Ayr Bruins BHL 6 1 3 4 0
1990–91 Solihull Barons BHL 34 28 29 57 16
1991–92 Sheffield Steelers BHL 32 43 50 93 28 6 5 4 9 2
1992–93 Sheffield Steelers BHL 27 3 9 12 2 6 5 2 7 0
Totals 383 470 466 936 347 38 37 31 68 36

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Ronnie Wood - player profile and career stats". European Hockey.Net. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  2. 1 2 "A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey entry". Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  3. 1 2 3 "All Star Teams". Ice Hockey Journalists UK. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  4. ↑ "1980-81 Murrayfield Racers [BHL] player statistics". The Internet Hockey Database. Retrieved 2007-12-31.

References

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