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Larry Robinson, born June 2, 1951 in Winchester,
Ontario, Canada, was a star player and a coach in
the National Hockey League.

Larry Robinson played junior hockey with the
Kitchener Rangers then turned professional,
spending  1971 to 1973 with the Nova Scotia
Voyageurs of the American Hockey League before
making it to the National Hockey League with the
Montreal Canadiens.

At 6'4" and 225 pounds, Larry Robinson was a big
and strong defenseman yet highly mobile. He played
17 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens and another
three seasons for the Los Angeles Kings, until his
retirement after the 1991 season. Twice he won the
James Norris Memorial Trophy as the league's most
outstanding defenseman and won the Conn Smythe
Trophy as the most valuable player of the 1978
playoffs. A dominant player whose talent and
leadership impacted his team’s performance,
Robinson helped lead the Canadiens to six Stanley
Cups.

Larry Robinson was a member of Team Canada in the
1976, 1981 and 1984 Canada Cup (hockey)|Canada Cup
tournaments and was an international All-Star team
selection in the 1981 World Championships. During
his career, he played in ten of the league's
All-Star games and ended his 20-year career having
scored 208 goals, 750 assists and 958
regular-season points as well as 144 points in 227
playoff games, a remarkable achievement for a
defenseman.

Following his retirement, Robinson was appointed
assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils in 1993
then made head coach of the Los Angeles Kings in
1995, the same year he was inducted into the
Hockey Hall of Fame. He left the Los Angeles team
at the end of the 1998-99 season, and signed on as
assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils once
again. Named interim head coach of the New Jersey
Devils on March 23, 2000, Robinson guided his team
to the Stanley Cup.

When Pat Burns suffered a recurrence of cancer,
Robinson was once again named to be the Devils'
head coach on Thursday, July 14, 2005.

Larry Robinson was raised on an Ontario farm and
as a boy he grew up with a love of horses.  While
living in the rural area of Saint-Lazare,
Quebec|St. Lazare outside of Montreal, Robinson
became a co-founder with former teammate Steve
Shutt and local veternarian Dr. Gilbert Hallé of
the Montreal Polo Club at Sainte-Marthe, Quebec.

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Head Coaches of the Los Angeles Kings | years =
1995–1999 | after = Andy Murray (hockey
player)|Andy Murray 
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Head Coaches of the New Jersey Devils | years =
2000–2002 | after = Kevin Constantine 
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Coaches of the New Jersey Devils | years =
2005–present | after = none 
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