LA Times · Aug 12, 2017
Former Ducks coach and general manager Bryan Murray dies at 74
Bryan Murray conducts a television interview during Anaheim's playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings in 2003. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times), a longtime hockey executive and general manager of the Ducks during their 2003 Stanley Cup Final run, died Saturday. He was 74.
Murray served first as coach and then as general manager of the then-Mighty Ducks from 2001 to 2004. He was the architect of the team that advanced to the 2003 Final, the first such appearance for the franchise. Murray drafted current Ducks players and franchise cornerstones Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry in 2003 and helped build the Ducks team that won the 2007 Stanley Cup.