Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) Name Ron Ashton Position Left Wing Role Guitarist | Shot Left Siblings Scott Asheton Played for Winnipeg Jets | |
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Weight 210 lb (95 kg; 15 st 0 lb) NHL Draft 78th overall, 1974Minnesota North Stars Died January 6, 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Music groups The Stooges (1967 – 2009), Destroy All Monsters, The New Order (1975 – 1976) Albums Fun House, Raw Power, Telluric Chaos, The Stooges Movies Mosquito, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wend, Legion of the Night, Hellmaster, Iggy and the Stooges Similar People Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Dave Alexander, Iggy Pop, Mike Watt | ||
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Ronald Ashton (born May 8, 1954) is a former WHA left winger for the Winnipeg Jets. In the World Hockey Association, he played 36 games and registering 16 goals, 20 assists, and 366 penalty minutes. He was best known as a fourth line player, enforcer, and for accumulating over 100 penalty minutes in a game, setting and maintaining a record which still stands in the now defunct WHA. Ashton's stint with the Jets included him playing with the likes of hockey superstars Bobby Hull, Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson.
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Ron Ashton is the brother of former NHLer Brent Ashton who had a lengthy National Hockey League career, and Gary Ashton who played major junior hockey in the Western Canadian Hockey League, now called the Western Hockey League. After announcing his retirement from hockey, Ron's career included working for the Labatt's Brewing Company in Saskatoon as a rep. Presently, Ron is now a top realtor in Saskatoon and area.
