Margaret Murphy

In the same season, the Bears beat Union, 6-0 for the 300th win of her career.

Margaret Pearl "Digit" Murphy (née Degidio; born December 7, 1961) is an American ice hockey coach, administrator, and former college ice hockey player.

She is president of the Metropolitan Riveters of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF).

Murphy has served as head coach of the Boston Blades, with whom she won two Clarkson Cups, and Kunlun Red Star WIH in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL).

She served as both head coach and president of the Toronto Six in the NWHL during the team’s inaugural season.

Prior to joining the Blades, she was the head coach of the Brown Bears women's ice hockey program.

Murphy had a standout career as a student athlete at Cornell University during 1979 to 1983.

She was a four-year letter winner for the Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey team and was a Big Red alternate captain as a junior and the team captain as a senior.

In 1981, she was named Ivy League Player of the Year and finished her career with 123 goals and 90 assists.

She was an assistant at the 1992 IIHF Women's World Championship and the 1996 Three Nations Cup.

She was inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994 and the women's hockey Most Valuable Player Award at Cornell is named after her.

Murphy was inducted in the Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame at the Institute for International Sport in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Murphy had winning percentages of .500 or better in fourteen of her eighteen seasons as head coach at Brown.

She coached the U.S. national team at the Lake Placid Olympic Festival in 2004.

She became the winningest coach in NCAA Division I women's ice hockey history during her 18th season at Brown (2006–07).

She finished her NCAA coaching career with 318 wins.

During the 2006–07 season, a 3–1 victory over Boston University made Murphy the most victorious coach in Division I women's hockey history.

With the win, she passed former Providence and Yale coach John Marchetti.

As a side note, Amanda Asay, who competed for Murphy from 2006–09, was a participant in the inaugural women's baseball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Murphy was the first female coach named to Brown's Wall of Honor.

In 2010, Murphy applied for the Brown Bears men's ice hockey head coaching position.

Brown ultimately offered the position to Brendan Whittet, who had no history of NCAA head coaching experience at the time, over Murphy.

During her time at Brown, Murphy coached the Bears to six ECAC Hockey titles and five Ivy League titles.

In addition, Murphy's players included one Patty Kazmaier Award winner, three AHCA All-Americans, and seven Olympians, including three-time gold medalist Becky Kellar.

For the 2012–13 CWHL season, Murphy served as both head coach and general manager of the Boston Blades.

She led the franchise to the 2013 Clarkson Cup and 2015 Clarkson Cup championships, along with an appearance in the finals of the 2014 Clarkson Cup.

Murphy was named the 2013 CWHL Coach of the Year and was credited as the winning coach for Team Red in the inaugural 1st Canadian Women's Hockey League All-Star Game.

During her second season with the Blades, she was recognized with the Women's Ice Hockey Founders Award, leading the Blades to the best regular season record in league play.

Her time with the Blades involved becoming the first American-born coach to win two Clarkson Cup titles, and becoming the first coach to lead a US-based team to two Cup wins.

On February 27, 2017, Murphy was named as the chief coach for the HC Kunlun Red Star women's team, known as Kunlun Red Star WIH that competed as a member of the CWHL, signaling her return to the CWHL for the 2017–18 season.

Serving as the head coach of the Kunlun Red Star WIH franchise, one of two expansion teams in China, the club featured goaltender Noora Räty and forward Kelli Stack, who played for Murphy with the Blades.

Räty became the first European goaltender to win the CWHL Goaltender of the Year Award, while Stack became the first American-born player to capture the Angela James Bowl, awarded to the CWHL's leading scorer.

By season's end, the Red Star qualified for the 2018 Clarkson Cup championship game, which they lost to the Markham Thunder.

She left Kunlun Red Star in May 2018.

On April 22, 2020, Murphy was named president of the National Women's Hockey League's (NWHL) first Canadian expansion franchise, the Toronto Six.

On October 20, 2020, Murphy was named first head coach in franchise history.

With a coaching staff that included Lisa Haley, Murphy led the Six to a first place finish during the 2020–21 NWHL season, highlighted by a four-game winning streak.

Following the season, she stepped down as coach to focus on her role as president of the Six.

On May 5, 2022, Murphy joined the Metropolitan Riveters as their new team president.

On numerous occasions, Murphy has been involved with USA Hockey.