Dave Lowry
David John Lowry ( born February 14, 1965 in Sudbury, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach. During his career he played for the Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues, Florida Panthers, San Jose Sharks and Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League. Since July 2012, he has been head coach of the Victoria Royals of the Western Hockey League.
Career
Lowry played with three years from 1982 to 1985 in the Ontario Hockey League with the London Knights. In the three years he has improved his point always yield and reached his final season with 120 points in 61 games and the call to the First All -Star Team OHL its peak. After the left-winger was already selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 in the sixth round at 110th position of the Vancouver Canucks, he joined the franchise for the 1985/86 season.
The Canadians on first attempt to jump into the NHL squad of Canucks and played in his rookie season 73 of the 80 season games. He also belonged to the following season to the root squad before he was first deported in the 1987/88 season the farm team and so came up with only 22 NHL appearances in this season. Shortly before the start of the 1988/89 season Lowry was transferred to the St. Louis Blues, where he spent his first season, as last year, between the NHL and the minor leagues. Only at the game in 1989 /90 established the striker in the squad the Blues and played in the 1990/91 season, his best NHL year with 40 points in 79 games before he had to leave in the summer of 1993, St. Louis, since it unprotected in the NHL expansion Draft was gone in 1993, where he chose the newly established Florida Panthers. As an experienced player Lowry included the following four seasons fixed for the Panthers squad, with whom he entirely surprisingly reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 1995/96 season. There, however, they lost to the Colorado Avalanche. The fourth station of the Canadian NHL were the San Jose Sharks, who received him in a transfer business in November 1997 and occupied him until the end of season 1999 /00. After Lowry had failed in his last season with the Sharks because of a shoulder injury a long time, he joined in the summer of 2000 as a free agent with the Calgary Flames. For the Flames, he took over after the resignation of Steve Smith in December 2000, the Office of the team captain, he lost only in the course of the 2002/03 season as he, after 14 years of coach Greg Gilbert because of his poor performance on the ice for the first time back in the farm team was deported. He finished his playing career finally after 2003/ 04, in which he had only received sparse deployment times and had failed a long time because of a groin injury.
After his playing career, he worked in the 2005/06 season a year as assistant coach of the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League and later as the head coach. On July 19, 2012, he was appointed head coach of the Victoria Royals in the WHL.