Richard kennedy is a Canadian retired ice hockey
winger and coach who was the
NCAA Scoring Champion in
1972–73.
Career
Kennedy was enticed to join the fairly new program at
Saint Louis University in 1971 due to knowing that, being a new program, he could play top minutes straight away and that the
Billikens played their home games in the
St. Louis Arena, the home of the
St. Louis Blues
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. After a decent freshman season, Kennedy's numbers exploded in his sophomore campaign; he led the nation in goals (47), assists (49) and points (96), leading the country's best offense to the top of the
CCHA. Unfortunately, due to the low regard for the conference by most of college hockey, Kennedy's accomplishments went unrecognized outside of the CCHA. Due to this lack of respect, Saint Louis knew the
conference tournament would be the end of their season. Despite dominating during the season, Saint Louis lost the opening game to
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and had to settle for second place.
As an upperclassmen, Kennedy's numbers declined as the team's strength of schedule improved but the Billikens were much more focused come playoff time, winning consecutive CCHA championships with Kennedy being named to the All-CCHA teams three years running. After graduating Kennedy played one season of senior hockey before hanging up his skates. He eventually became the head coach at
Christian Brothers College and led the team to four MSCHA championships.
He was inducted into the St. Louis Amateur Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Awards and honours
References
External links
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1951 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey centres
Ice hockey people from Ontario
People from Weston, Toronto
Saint Louis Billikens men's ice hockey players
Sioux City Musketeers players