Chris Murray

Chris Murray (born October 25, 1974 in Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward.

He played three years for the junior Kamloops Blazers and won the Memorial Cup in 1991-92.

Murray was drafted 54th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in 1994 from the Western Hockey League's Kamloops Blazers and started his National Hockey League career with the Canadiens in the 1994–95 NHL season. He remained with the team for the best of three years before he was part of a three-way trade between Montreal, the Phoenix Coyotes and the Hartford Whalers on March 18, 1997. Murray was first traded to Phoenix with Murray Baron for Dave Manson and was then traded to Hartford for Gerald Diduck. The next season the Whalers relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina and became the Carolina Hurricanes. He played just seven games for Carolina before he was traded to the Ottawa Senators for Sean Hill. On March 23, 1999, he was traded once more, this time to the Chicago Blackhawks for Nelson Emerson and a draft pick, but only managed to play just four games for the team. In 1999, he signed with the Dallas Stars and split the with them and the Michigan K-Wings of the International Hockey League. He left the NHL after the 2000 season and signed for the Worcester IceCats of the American Hockey League for one season before retiring from hockey.