Birth Date: | May 7, 1953 |
Birth Place: | North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Death Place: | Klagenfurt, Austria |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 11 |
Weight Lb: | 175 |
Position: | Right wing |
Shoots: | Right |
Played For: | Muskegon Mohawks Kalamazoo Wings |
Draft: | 65th overall |
Draft Year: | 1973 |
Draft Team: | New York Islanders |
Wha Draft: | 76th overall |
Wha Draft Year: | 1973 |
Wha Draft Team: | Winnipeg Jets |
Career Start: | 1973 |
Career End: | 1988 |
Ron Kennedy (May 7, 1953 - July 9, 2009) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
Kennedy was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Kennedy played minor-league hockey in North America, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria before moving to coaching.
Kennedy's last position was coaching for Innsbruck of the Austrian Hockey League.[1]
His coaching career included:
Kennedy resigned after his December 2008 diagnosis of brain cancer, from which he died, aged 56, in Klagenfurt, Austria.[2]