Hockey Canada names Al Murray U-20 head scout; Scott Walker becomes player development coach
Hockey Canada announced today that Al Murray has been named the Under-20 head scout, while Scott Walker has been named player development coach.
We have hired Al Murray (U20 head scout) and Scott Walker (player development coach). Welcome aboard!
Nous avons embauché Al Murray (dépisteur en chef des M20) et Scott Walker (entraîneur en développement des joueurs). Bienvenue dans l’équipe! pic.twitter.com/eUgPFTlhy2
Murray has previously served with Hockey Canada where he helped put together three gold medal-winning squads with the Under-18 and Under-20 clubs from 2007-2010. During that time, Murray was head scout for both the U20 and U18 men’s teams, which featured players such as Drew Doughty, Jonathan Toews, Steven Stamkos, Claude Giroux, John Tavares, P.K. Subban, Brad Marchand and more.
Prior to his tenure with Hockey Canada, Murray served as a scouting coordinator and the Director of Amateur Scouting for the Los Angeles Kings from 1988-89 through to 2006-07 before taking the job with Hockey Canada. Murray led and helped draft several players who helped L.A. win the Stanley Cup in 2012 — years after his departure.
Most recently, Murray had served with the Tampa Bay Lightning as the Director of Amateur Scouting, and briefly held the assistant General Manager position for four seasons with the Bolts. While in Tampa, Murray would help draft Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Anthony Cirelli and more, putting together a squad that won back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021 and made it to a third straight Cup Final before being dismantled by the Colorado Avalanche; not to mention a Cup Final loss in 2015 to Chicago and a first-round exit in dramatic fashion in 2018-19.
Meanwhile, Walker joins as a player development coach and has previously served with Hockey Canada on multiple occasions including the World Juniors, Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Under-17 World Hockey Championships, Karjala Cup, Spengler Cup, and Olympic Games.
Walker has also served as Director of Player Personnel in 2020-21 with the Arizona Coyotes, and an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks in 2021-22.
The 51-year-old was originally drafted No. 124 overall in the 1993 NHL Draft by Vancouver and accumulated 151 goals and 246 assists for 397 points in 829 games.