Dwayne Norris

Carl Dwayne Norris ( born January 8, 1970 in St. John's, Newfoundland ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and was to insolvency in 2010 working as a manager of the Frankfurt Lions in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. His brother Warren was also a professional hockey player.

Career

Dwayne Norris began in 1988 with the professional hockey at the University of Michigan and played for four years with their team in the NCAA. After the winger during the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 was pulled in the seventh round in a total of 127 out of the Quebec Nordiques and had won in the same year with the Canadian selection at the Junior World Championship title, he tried in 1992 in the American Hockey League to gain a foothold at the Halifax Citadel. There he played but only for a year before he first traveled around in the season 1993/94 with Team Canada and the season finally ended with the Quebec Nordiques and at their farm team.

At the Olympics 1994 he was part of the contingent of Team Canada and won the silver medal. After he received only a few missions for the NHL team in Quebec in the following year, in 1995 he joined the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. But even here he remained due to poor perspective only for one season.

In the summer of 1996, Norris decided a move to Europe and took an offer from the Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For the KEC he played a total of seven years. He won with the sharks the 1999 Spengler Cup in Davos and 2002, the German Cup; in the DEL 2002 final against Adler Mannheim he scored all the winning goal for the Sharks. He was also in 2000 and 2003 with the Cologne runner-up. For the season 2003/ 04 he joined the league rivals Frankfurt Lions, with whom he won the title in the first year. In the season 2004/ 05 he was with the player with the best 33 plus / minus value. Norris ' contract with the Lions ran until the end of the season 2006/07. After the end of his active career in the summer of 2007, he took over the Frankfurt Lions, the Office of the Manager and remained there until the bankruptcy of 2010.

Dwayne Norris is married and has three sons who play at the Young Lions Hockey.

Awards and achievements

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