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{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (born 1954)}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image =
| image_size =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|3|28|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Brandon, Manitoba|Brandon]], [[Manitoba]], Canada
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 11
| weight_lb = 186
| position = [[Centre (ice hockey)|Centre]]
| shoots = Right
| played_for = [[Vancouver Blazers]]<br>[[Calgary Cowboys]]<br>[[Edmonton Oilers]]<br>[[Quebec Nordiques]]
| draft = 17th overall
| draft_team = [[California Seals]]
| draft_year = 1974
| wha_draft = 20th overall
| wha_draft_team = [[Vancouver Blazers]]
| wha_draft_year = 1974
| career_start = 1974
| career_end = 1984
}}
'''Ronald James Chipperfield''' (born March 28, 1954) is a Canadian former professional [[ice hockey]] player who served as the [[Edmonton Oilers]]' first [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) captain. He played for the Oilers in both the [[World Hockey Association]] (WHA) and the NHL, as well as the [[Vancouver Blazers]] and the [[Calgary Cowboys]] of the WHA, and the [[Quebec Nordiques]] of the NHL. Chipperfield was born in [[Brandon, Manitoba]].

==Playing career==
Chipperfield started his junior career in 1969–70 with the [[Dauphin Kings]] of the [[Manitoba Junior Hockey League]] (MJHL), leading the league in scoring. The Kings won the MJHL championship and advanced to the [[1970 Memorial Cup#National Playoff Tree|1970 Memorial Cup]] western semi-final before bowing out. Next, he spent four years with [[Brandon Wheat Kings]] of the [[Western Hockey League|Western Canadian Hockey League]] (WCHL), where he set numerous team and league records. His most successful year there was his last, 1973–74, when he scored 90 goals, setting a league record at the time,<ref name="MHHOF">{{cite web |title=Chipperfield, Ron {{!}} Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame |url=http://mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/people/ron-chipperfield/ |website=mbhockeyhalloffame.ca |publisher=[[Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]] |accessdate=19 January 2019}}</ref> won the scoring title, and was named league MVP.

Chipperfield was drafted in 1974 by the [[California Golden Seals]] in the first round, 17th overall, of the [[1974 NHL amateur draft]], and in the second round, 20th overall of the [[1974 WHA Amateur Draft]] by the [[Vancouver Blazers]]. He joined the Blazers, spending a year with the team before it moved to Calgary and became the [[Calgary Cowboys]]. Chipperfield played two seasons for the Cowboys, then a three-year run with the [[Edmonton Oilers]]. In his third season with the team, the Oilers joined the National Hockey League. Chipperfield made his NHL debut in 1979 and went on to score 22 goals and 45 points that season. In March of that season, the Oilers traded him to the [[Quebec Nordiques]] for goaltender [[Ron Low]], a former teammate in Dauphin. Chipperfield played just four games with the Nordiques the following year and then took his skills to the [[Italian Hockey League - Serie A|top league in Italy]] in 1981. That season he scored a league-leading 78 goals and 128 points in just 39 games. His final three seasons were spent there, playing for [[HC Bolzano]].

==Awards and achievements==
* [[Manitoba Junior Hockey League|MJHL]] Co-Goal Scoring Leader (1970)
* [[Manitoba Junior Hockey League#Turnbull Cup Champions|Turnbull Cup MJHL Champions]] (1970)
* [[Western Hockey League|WCHL]] All-Star Team ([[1973–74 WCHL season|1974]])
* WCHL Scoring Champion (1974)
* WCHL MVP (1974)
* Honoured Member of the [[Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]]<ref name="MHHOF" />

==Career statistics==
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:60em"
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  
! colspan="5" | [[regular season|Regular season]]
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  
! colspan="5" | [[Playoffs]]
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! [[Season (sports)|Season]]
! Team
! League
! GP
! [[Goal (ice hockey)|G]]
! [[Assist (ice hockey)|A]]
! [[Point (ice hockey)|Pts]]
! [[Penalty (ice hockey)|PIM]]
! GP
! G
! A
! Pts
! PIM
|-
|[[1969–70 MJHL season|1969–70]]||[[Dauphin Kings]]||[[Manitoba Junior Hockey League|MJHL]]||34||39||40||79||18||—||—||—||—||—
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1970 Memorial Cup|1969–70]]||Dauphin Kings||[[Memorial Cup|M-Cup]]||—||—||—||—||—||6||3||1||4||0
|-
|[[1970–71 WCHL season|1970–71]]||[[Brandon Wheat Kings]]||[[Western Hockey League|WCJHL]]||64||40||43||83||62||—||—||—||—||—
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1971–72 WCHL season|1971–72]]||Brandon Wheat Kings||WCJHL||63||59||53||112||29||11||8||5||13||0
|-
|[[1972–73 WCHL season|1972–73]]||Brandon Wheat Kings||WCJHL||59||72||41||113||63||6||1||3||4||2
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1973–74 WCHL season|1973–74]]||Brandon Wheat Kings||WCJHL||66||90||72||162||82||—||—||—||—||—
|-
|[[1974–75 WHA season|1974–75]]||[[Vancouver Blazers]]||[[World Hockey Association|WHA]]||78||19||20||39||30||—||—||—||—||—
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1975-76 WHA season|1975-76]]||[[Calgary Cowboys]]||WHA||75||42||41||83||32||10||5||4||9||6
|-
|[[1976–77 WHA season|1976–77]]||Calgary Cowboys||WHA||81||27||27||54||32||—||—||—||—||—
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1977–78 WHA season|1977–78]]||[[Edmonton Oilers]]||WHA||80||33||52||85||48||5||1||1||2||0
|-
|[[1978–79 WHA season|1978–79]]||Edmonton Oilers||WHA||55||32||37||69||47||13||9||10||19||8
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1979–80 NHL season|1979–80]]||Edmonton Oilers||[[NHL]]||67||18||19||37||24||—||—||—||—||—
|-
|1979–80||[[Quebec Nordiques]]||NHL||12||4||4||8||8||—||—||—||—||—
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1980–81 AHL season|1980–81]]||[[Rochester Americans]]||[[American Hockey League|AHL]]||6||3||2||5||6||—||—||—||—||—
|-
|[[1980–81 NHL season|1980–81]]||Quebec Nordiques||NHL||4||0||1||1||2||—||—||—||—||—
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1981–82 Serie A (ice hockey) season|1981–82]]||[[HC Bozen]]||[[Serie A (ice hockey)|Serie A]]||30||78||50||128||40||6||10||8||18||10
|-
|[[1982–83 Serie A (ice hockey) season|1982–83]]||HC Bozen||Serie A||32||78||58||136||54||—||—||—||—||—
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
|[[1983–84 Serie A (ice hockey) season|1983–84]]||HC Bozen||Serie A||22||19||24||43||14||5||4||8||12||8
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | WHA Totals
!369!!153!!177!!330!!189!!28!!15!!15!!30!!14
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | NHL Totals
!83!!22!!24!!46!!34!!—!!—!!—!!—!!—
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | Serie A Totals
!84!!175!!132!!307!!108!!11!!14!!16!!30!!18
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1974/74017.html Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com]
* {{icehockeystats|legends=12260}}
* [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/players.html?category=9&id=66 Ron Chipperfield's biography] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20141004060054/http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/index.html Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]

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{{succession box | before = [[Paul Shmyr]] | title = [[Edmonton Oilers#Team captains|Edmonton Oilers captain]] | years = [[1979–80 NHL season|1979–80]] | after = [[Blair MacDonald]]}}
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