Mark Lamb
Mark W. Lamb ( born March 3, 1964 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who from 1985 to 1996 for the Calgary Flames, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens has played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Mark Lamb began his career as a hockey player in the Western Hockey League in which he stood from 1980 to 1985 for the Billings Bighorns, Nanaimo Islanders and Medicine Hat Tigers on the ice. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 in the fourth round as a total of 72 players from the Calgary Flames. In the 1985/86 season Lamb made his debut in the National Hockey League when he ran aground in a game for Calgary. After the season he was taken by the Detroit Red Wings under contract. Again, after only one year, the Edmonton Oilers committed the attacker in the NHL Waiver Draft, with whom in 1990 he won the prestigious Stanley Cup.
After five successful years in Edmonton Lamb was selected in the NHL Expansion Draft in 1992 by the Ottawa Senators, for whom he had the following two seasons running. During the 1993/94 season the Canadians was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers, who submitted him after only one year at the Montreal Canadiens. In Montréal Lamb could not prevail, so that the Canadiens first loaned him at the beginning of the 1995/96 season to the Houston Aeros of the International Hockey League, who took him to the season as a free agent contract. In the 1997/98 season Lamb was the first and only time in Europe under contract when he played for the EV Landshut in the DEL. After the season, Lamb returned to the Houston Aeros, with whom he won the 1999 Turner Cup and a year later ended his career as a professional hockey player.
Following his playing career Lamb worked in the 2001/ 02 season as an assistant coach at his former club Edmonton Oilers before he was employed from 2002 to 2008 in the same position with the Dallas Stars.
In July 2009 he took over the Swift Current Broncos, a team of Western Hockey League, the office of the head coach and general manager.