Dan Lambert

This article deals with the Canadian ice hockey player Dan Lambert, who has been active in Germany for a long time, for the Canadian ice hockey player who is exclusively active in North America, see Denny Lambert .

Dan Lambert
Date of birth	January 12, 1970
place of birth	Saint-Boniface , Manitoba , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	76 kg
position	defender
number	# 15
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1989 , 6th lap, 106th position Québec Nordiques
Career stations
1986-1990	Swift Current Broncos
1990-1991	Fort Wayne Comet
1991-1992	Halifax Citadels
1992-1993	Moncton Hawks
1993-1994	Fort Wayne Comet
1994	HIFK Helsinki
1994-1995	San Diego Gulls
1995-1999	Los Angeles Ice Dogs
1999-2000	Cologne Sharks
2000-2003	Krefeld penguins
2003-2004	Hamburg Freezers
2004-2009	Hanover Scorpions

Dan R. Lambert (born January 12, 1970 in Saint-Boniface , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . During his active career, the defender played 29 games for the Nordiques de Québec in the National Hockey League , but was mostly used in minor leagues . Then he spent ten years in the German Ice Hockey League active, he with the Krefeld Penguins in 2003, the German Championship celebrated and Hannover Scorpions than five years captain led. Lambert has been the assistant coach of the Nashville Predators from the National Hockey League since the 2019/20 season .

Career

Lambert began his professional career in the 1986/87 season with the Swift Current Broncos in the Canadian youth division WHL . The defender played there until 1990 and was previously selected by the Quebec Nordiques in the sixth round of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft in 106th place . This was followed by a change to the farm team Fort Wayne Komets from the International Hockey League , but in the same season Lambert played his first NHL game for the Nordiques. He was also active in the 1990/91 season for the other farm team Halifax Citadels from the American Hockey League . In the following season, the left-shooter played for Halifax and played his last 28 games in the NHL.

1992 followed a season with the Moncton Hawks in the AHL, after the Canadian had been transferred from the Nordiques for Shawn Cronin to the Winnipeg Jets in August 1992 . In 1993 he again joined the Fort Wayne Komets from the IHL, but Lambert's first move to Europe followed that season, where he played for the HIFK Helsinki in the Finnish SM-liiga . After his involvement in Europe, the defender decided to return overseas and finally laced up his skates for the IHL's San Diego Gulls in the 1994/95 season . The following year Lambert was again active in the IHL, but this time with the Los Angeles Ice Dogs . From 1996 to 1999, the Canadian played for league rivals Long Beach Ice Dogs , in whose service he won the Governor's Trophy as the best defender of the IHL at the end of the 1997/98 season .

For the 1999/00 season Dan Lambert was from the Cologne Sharks from the German Ice Hockey League , which he left after only one year in the direction of Krefeld Pinguine . The Canadian celebrated winning the German championship with the penguins in the 2002/03 season and then switched to the Hamburg Freezers . In 2004 the defender signed a contract with the Hannover Scorpions , for which he was last on the ice as team captain and ended his active career on July 9, 2009.

Coaching career

The day after retiring, he signed a contract as assistant coach of Kelowna Rockets in the Western Hockey League . In this role he was active for five years before he took over the head coach of the Rockets at the beginning of the 2014/15 season. In June 2015 he switched to the Buffalo Sabers in the NHL, where he worked as an assistant coach under Dan Bylsma , but after a year he took over the Sabers' farm team as head coach, the Rochester Americans . After another season he took over the Spokane Chiefs as head coach for the 2017/18 season and thus returned to the WHL. There he was active for two years before he was hired for the second time in the NHL as an assistant coach for the 2019/20 season with the Nashville Predators .

Achievements and Awards

1989 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Swift Current Broncos 1989 WHL East First All-Star Team 1989 Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy 1989 Memorial Cup win with the Swift Current Broncos 1989 Memorial Cup All-Star Team 1989 Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy 1990 WHL East First All-Star Team

1996 IHL Second All-Star Team 1998 IHL First All-Star Team 1998 Governor's Trophy 1999 IHL Second All-Star Team 2003 German champion with the Krefeld penguins

DEL statistics

	Playing times	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	10	488	80	219	299	667
Play-offs	8th	66	3	24	27	78

Web links

• Dan Lambert at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dan Lambert at eurohockey.com
• Dan Lambert at legendsofhockey.net (English)