Peter Millar
Peter Millar enjoyed a 27 year career in the NHL and a professional hockey tenure as a trainer that spanned more than three decades and included four Stanley Cup Championships, six Stanley Cup Finals and countless NHL milestones, awards and records.
Millar spent 17 seasons (from 1989-06) with the Los Angeles Kings as the Equipment Manager after working the previous 11 years as the Athletic Trainer for the Edmonton Oilers (WHA/NHL).
A native of Midland, Ontario, Millar received his honors degree in physical/health education from Lauentian University in Sudbury. After graduation Millar attended Sheridan College in Oakville, where he continued his education as a student-intern at the school, which had recently created an Athletic Training and Management Program, and by being active with the Bramalea Blues, a Junior B team from Bramalea.
From there Millar went to Binghamton as he landed his first full-time job as a hockey trainer with the Binghamton Dusters of the North American Hockey League and then, at the recommendation of Barry Fraser, Millar was hired by Edmonton as Head Athletic Trainer.
With the Oilers, Millar was a part of four Stanley Cup Winners in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988. In 1983 Edmonton advanced to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in team history and in 1978, the Oilers made it to the Avco Cup Final.
The Oilers won six consecutive Smythe Division titles from 1981-87 and Millar worked with six Hall of Fame players: Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr, Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri and Mark Messier, along with Hall of Fame General Manger/Head Coach Glen Sather and Head Equipment Manager Barrie Stafford.
It was also during this time he received a gold medal in the lone international tournament he worked, the 1984 Canada Cup Championship.
In 1989 Millar moved to Los Angeles after accepting a job with the Kings, where he took a different position, transitioning from athletic trainer to equipment manager.
In Millar’s second season with the Kings, the club captured the Smythe Division title, the only division title the Kings have won in their 50-plus year history. He was also on the bench in 1993 when the Kings made their first trip to the Stanley Cup final.
In Los Angeles, Millar again worked closely with Gretzky, Huddy, Kurri, Marty McSorley, Mike Krushelnyski and Kelly Buchberger. He also worked with four more future Hall of Famers in Rob Blake, Larry Robinson, Luc Robitaille and club General Manager Rogie Vachon.
After leaving the Kings/NHL following the 2005-06 campaign, Millar joined Warrior Hockey where he has worked as a Warrior Pro Hockey Representative ever since.
Millar joins former Kings trainers Peter Demers (2007), Mark O’Neill (2016) and Norm Mackie (1997) with recognition at the HHOF along with former Oilers trainer Barrie Stafford (2012). Ken Lowe replaced Millar in Edmonton and was honored in 2017.
He resides in El Segundo, CA. His wife Ramona is a retired Special Education teacher in the area and they have two grown children: Ashley is an Urban Farmer in Los Angeles and Matthew is the Goaltending Development Coach for the Kings.
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