Dan Lambert

Dan R. Lambert ( born January 12, 1970 in Saint -Boniface, Manitoba ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current assistant coach of the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League.

Career

Lambert began his professional career in the 1986/87 season with the Swift Current Broncos in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL. There, the defender played until 1990 and was previously selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 in the sixth round of the Quebec Nordiques of 106th. There was a change to the farm team Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League, but still in the same season Lambert denied his first NHL game for the Nordiques. He was also active in the season 1990/91 for further farm team Halifax Citadels of the American Hockey League. In the following season, played the links contactors for Halifax and played his last 28 games in the NHL.

1992 was followed by a season with the Moncton Hawks in the AHL after the Canadians had been transferred from the Nordiques for Shawn Cronin to the Winnipeg Jets in August 1992. In 1993, he joined the Fort Wayne Komets again from the IHL to, but still first move to Europe, where he ran aground for the HIFK Helsinki in the Finnish SM- liiga followed this season Lamberts. After his commitment to Europe, the defender, first return to overseas decided, and finally strangled in the 1994/95 season his skates for the San Diego Gulls of the IHL. The following year, Lambert was again active in the IHL, but this time with the Los Angeles Ice Dogs. From 1996 to 1999, the Canadians played for league rivals Long Beach Ice Dogs, in whose service he won the Governor's Trophy as the best defender of the IHL at the end of the season 1997/98.

For the 1999/00 season was Dan Lambert of the Cologne Sharks of the German Ice Hockey League, but he left after only one year in the direction of Krefeld Penguins. With the penguins of Canadians celebrated in the season 2002 /03, winning the German Cup and then moved to the Hamburg Freezers. 2004 signed the defender a contract with the Hannover Scorpions, for which he most recently as team captain stood on the ice and on 9 July 2009 ended his career.

Coaching career

One day after end of his career he signed a contract as an assistant coach from Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League.

Awards and achievements

DEL stats

As of the end of the season 2008/ 09