Doug Lidster
John Douglas Andrew Lidster ( born October 18, 1960 in Kamloops, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active period from 1977 to 1999, including for the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Doug Lidster began his career as a hockey player in his hometown, where he was active until 1979 from 1977 for the Kamloops Chiefs and Kamloops Rockets in the Canadian Junior Football League British Columbia Hockey League. Then he attended for four years, the Colorado College, for his hockey team, he played in parallel in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In 1982 and 1983 he was selected in each case in the First All -Star Team of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, also in 1983, the First All -Star Team of the Western Conference of the NCAA. During his college time the defender in the NHL Entry Draft in 1980 was selected in the seventh round as a total of 133 players from the Vancouver Canucks. For the Canucks, he played from 1983 to 1993 in the National Hockey League and developed with the team as one of the leading players.
For the 1993/94 season Lidster was issued in exchange for John Vanbiesbrouck to the New York Rangers, with whom he won the prestigious Stanley Cup straight away. Following this success, he was transferred together with Esa Tikkanen in exchange for Petr Nedved to the St. Louis Blues. There he remained only a year before he returned to the Rangers, where he was active for another three seasons. After he was out of contract before signing the experienced Canadian end of February 1999 a contract as a free agent with the Dallas Stars, who won the Stanley Cup in the 1998/99 season. He himself graduated enough games to be engraved on the trophy. He then finished his career at the age of 38 years.
In the season 2002/ 03 Lidster was as an assistant coach for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League junior active. For the season 2004 /05 he became head coach at the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League, but has been replaced by American Bob Mancini in the course of the season. Currently Lidster is an assistant coach of the Canadian national women's team.
Internationally
For Canada took Lidster at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in part. In addition, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1985, 1990 and 1991.