Lance Nethery
Lance Nethery ( born June 28, 1957 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach and manager of the Cologne Sharks.
Playing career
During his active career played Nethery, who was selected in 1977 131 position of the New York Rangers during NHL Amateur Draft on, 55 times in the best league in the world for the Rangers and the Edmonton Oilers. In addition, the forward played in his career for the AHL Teams New Haven Nighthawks, Springfield Indians and Hershey Bears, the Duisburg SC and the Swiss National League A- HC Davos. Greatest successes were two championships with Davos in 1984 and 1985, the runner-up in 1986, reaching the Conference Finals with the New York Rangers in 1981 and participation in the final of the Calder Cup in 1986 with the Hershey Bears.
Coach and official career
Time in Switzerland
After his playing time Nethery operated successfully both as a coach and as a manager of clubs, mainly in Germany. In 1990, Nethery his first coaching job as head coach and worked for two years at HC Davos, with whom he managed for the season 1990/91 the resurgence in the Swiss National League B. After these two years, he worked one season at SC Bern as head coach of the NLA, before he returned to Germany.
Beginnings in Germany
1993 Nethery became an assistant coach with the EV Landshut in the 1st Bundesliga. After this year, it committed the Adler Mannheim, which he oversaw in the position of the head coach from 1994 to 1999. In the seasons 1996/97, 1997/98 and 1998/99 he won with this team three championships in a row.
Kölner Haie
He then moved to the Cologne Sharks, which he by the gang of supervised and with whom he next to the Spengler Cup success in Davos 1999/2000 - which is also the main round - the first and so far last winning a German team for 35 years DEL finished in first place and then was runner-up. Due to the change in Andy Murray in the summer of 1999 Nethery took over in the same year also the function of the manager, even though the team had already been put together for the season. Then he released the coaching job, but trained by the dismissal of his successor, Bob Leslie in the current season the team again. In the spring of 2002 he resigned from all posts and was succeeded by his assistant Rich Chernomaz, who won the championship with the sharks.
Frankfurt Lions
For the season 2002 /03, the Frankfurt Lions Nethery committed as head coach. The Lions were second from bottom of the main draws and stood after the defeat in the play -down series against the Schwenningen Wild Wings as a sporting relegated the DEL fixed. Due to the initiated insolvency proceedings, however, the Wild Wings could not obtain DEL license for the following season, which made a whereabouts of the Lions first place. The club held on to Nethery, however, changed this to the orphaned Manager position. The Canadian team changed the fundamental undertook 18 new players to the then superstar Patrick Lebeau and also piloted his friend Jesse Bélanger to the Lions. End of the season 2003/ 04 the German Lions Hockey champions were; they lost in the play-offs a home game and defeated in the DEL finals, the polar bear Berlin.
During the NHL lockout Nethery again relied on North American players, even though he initially balked at NHL loaned and pledged, among other defender Stephane Robidas and center forward Doug Weight.
DEG Metro Stars
After his successful time manager at the frankfurters he went to Dusseldorf at the DEG Metro Stars, who had steadily deteriorated since the season 2002/ 03 (main round rank three) and were able to complete the season 2004 /05 as tenth. Nethery changes to the side not fundamental, but at points and sparked this on current player contracts; as new head coach, he piloted the two-time Stanley Cup winner Don Jackson on the DEG. Netherys originally to 2008 ongoing contract was extended to the end of the season 2006/07 until 2012. At the beginning of the 2007/ 08 dismissed Nethery November 4, 2007 his coach Slavomír Lener and took himself back as coach. Nethery managed by a strong final sprint DEG nor the targeted minimum goal of the pre- playoff qualifiers, which was successfully accomplished against the Hannover Scorpions. In the semifinals, his team resigned to eventual champion German polar bear Berlin in five games of the best-of -five series from.
For the 2008/ 09 season he installed as the new head coach Harold Kreis. With Circle Nethery has already worked in Mannheim and Cologne. The team has been fundamentally redesigned, since, among other long-term performers such as goals Vikingstad and Klaus Kathan had to be replaced in the attack or Robert Dietrich and Darren Van Impe in defense. The upheaval succeeded in the same year and DEG was able to advance to the finals of the German Ice Hockey League after third place in the main round, however, as in 2006, which they lost to the polar bears. It was Netherys third DEL - runner. The strong performances in the following season ended with the Olympic break and a run of eight defeats in eleven games led Nethery to a coach dismissal, this time with two games before the end of the main round. Circle and his assistant, the former DEG defender Mike Schmidt, were dismissed with immediate effect from their positions, Nethery returned to the band back and also installed Bob Leslie as the new assistant coach with missing success: In the last two main round matches as well as in the three playoff quarter-final games against Wolfsburg went DEG as a loser by the ice. It was the first time that a team DEG under Nethery not reached at least the semifinals.
At the beginning of the 2010/11 season Nethery succeeded the obligation of head coach Jeff Tomlinson and assistant coach Tray Tuomie. The budget was reduced and increasingly concentrated on young players like Martin Behind Stocker, Diego Hofland and Marko Nowak. In January 2012, Dusseldorf separated by Nethery.
Kölner Haie
For February 15, 2013 Nethery returned to his former club and joined the succession of Thomas gauge as Managing Director at who moved to Bundesliga football club Werder Bremen.