Dave Cameron

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CanadaCanada  Dave Cameron Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 29, 1958
place of birth Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , Canada
size 184 cm
Weight 84 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1978 , 8th round, 135th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
1976-1979 University of Prince Edward Island
1979 Fort Wayne Comet
1979-1981 Indianapolis Checkers
1981-1982 Colorado Rockies
Fort Worth Texans
1982-1984 New Jersey Devils
Wichita Wind
1984 Maine Mariners
1984-1985 Moncton Golden Flames
1985-1987 Charlottetown Islanders
1987-1989 Summerside Western Capitals
1989-1990 Fredericton Alpines
1990-1991 Charlottetown Islanders
1994-1995 Saint John Flames

David William "Dave" Cameron (born July 29, 1958 in Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island ) is a Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . In the years 1981 to 1984 the center came to 168 appearances for the New Jersey Devils and the Colorado Rockies in the National Hockey League , but spent most of its active career in minor leagues .

Cameron's career as a coach is particularly linked to the Ontario Hockey League , in which he accompanied three teams for over 10 years. In addition, he was behind the gang at several Junior World Championships for Canadian national teams. From 2011 to 2016, the Canadian was part of the coaching staff of the Ottawa Senators from the NHL, which he was also head coach from December 2014 to April 2016. He then served as assistant coach for the Calgary Flames from 2016 to 2018 .

In May 2018 he signed as head coach with the Vienna Capitals in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

Career

As a player

As a professional

Dave Cameron was born in Charlottetown, but grew up in Kinkora, about 50 kilometers away . He attended the University of Prince Edward Island and played there from 1976 to 1979 for the Panthers in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union . As early as 1978, the New York Islanders had selected him in the NHL Amateur Draft in 135th position. As a result, he moved with the beginning of the 1979/80 season in the organization of the Islanders and spent most of the season with their farm team , the Indianapolis Checkers , which had only recently been accepted into the Central Hockey League (CHL). There were also six appearances for the Fort Wayne Komets in the International Hockey League (IHL).

After he had completely spent the 1980/81 season in Indianapolis and was elected to the CHL Second All-Star Team , the Islanders gave him on October 1, 1981, together with Bob Lorimer, to the Colorado Rockies and received in return a first-round right to vote for the 1983 NHL Entry Draft ( Pat LaFontaine ). In the Rockies, the attacker established himself right away, making his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) and scoring 23 points in 66 missions . After this 1981/82 season, the franchise moved to New Jersey and henceforth traded as New Jersey Devils . Cameron spent the 1982/83 season in roughly equal parts with the Devils and their new farm team, the Wichita Wind , in the CHL, before he returned to the regular squad the following year and completed 67 games. This should already represent the last NHL season, so that he only spent three years in the highest ice hockey league in North America.

The 1984/85 season in the American Hockey League (AHL), which he had spent with the Maine Mariners and the Moncton Golden Flames , was to be his last on a professional level - apart from one single AHL assignment, which he spent ten years later which Saint John Flames graduated from.

Studies, work and amateur sport

In the meantime, Dave Cameron spent his private professional training and ice hockey at amateur level in his home country. So he returned to the University of Prince Edward Island , where he completed a business degree, which it took him ten years to complete. According to his own statement, this is the time he holds the university record. He then worked for a short time as a trainee at the Bank of Nova Scotia before giving up this position and subsequently working at a facility for juvenile offenders. He later worked at a high school as a guidance counselor , a kind of counseling teacher.

In addition to his professional activity, Cameron played in the New Brunswick Senior Hockey League (NBSHL) for the Summerside Western Capitals and the Fredericton Alpines until 1991 . After he had not been active from 1991 to 1994, his brief comeback in the AHL followed in the 1994/95 season, as a result of which he ended his active career.

As a trainer

CanadaCanada  Dave Cameron
Coaching stations
1995-1997 Detroit Falcons
Port Huron Border Cats
1997-1999 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1999-2000 St. John's Maple Leafs
(Assistant Coach)
2000-2004 Toronto St. Michael's Majors
2004-2007 Binghamton Senators
2007-2011 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors
2011-2014 Ottawa Senators
(Assistant Coach)
2014-2016 Ottawa Senators
2016-2018 Calgary Flames
(Assistant Coach)
since 2018 Vienna Capitals

Between OHL and AHL

Immediately afterwards he started his first position as head coach in 1995, with the Detroit Falcons from the Colonial Hockey League . He continued to look after the team when it was relocated to Port Huron after the season and henceforth traded as Port Huron Border Cats . In both years he led the team into the play-offs, but never got beyond the second round. With the beginning of the 1997/98 season he was the new head coach of Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds from the Ontario Hockey League , one of Canada's top three junior leagues , were featured. In Sault Ste. Marie had little sporting success for Cameron's engagement, so he left the team after two years and joined the St. John's Maple Leafs from the AHL as an assistant coach in the 1999/2000 season, which was the first time he worked at a professional level.

After this season, however, he returned to the OHL and from then on coached the Toronto St. Michael's Majors , where his son Connor was also active at the time. The Canadian was significantly more successful with the St. Michael's Majors, reaching the conference finals in all four years of his tenure and was elected to the OHL Second All-Star Team in 2001 and 2002 . After his engagement in Toronto, Cameron gained international experience for the first time when he won the Nations Cup (today Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament) with the Canadian U18 national team in summer 2004 . Immediately afterwards he signed as head coach for the Binghamton Senators in the AHL. With the Senators he won the FG "Teddy" Oke Trophy as the best team in the Northeast Division in his debut season , but in the following two years he missed the play-offs, in 2006/07 even as the worst team in the league, and was in the Dismissed episode.

As a result, he returned again to the OHL and was henceforth again for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors behind the gang, which represented the successor to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors. The team achieved the greatest success in the 2010/11 season, when the majors were not only the team with the highest points in the regular season ( Hamilton Spectator Trophy ), but also reached the play-off final ( Bobby Orr Trophy ), but the Owen there Sound attack documents . However, the host took part in the 2011 Memorial Cup and was only defeated by the Saint John Sea Dogs in the final . Furthermore, the Canadian was elected to the OHL Second All-Star Team in 2011 and 2010 .

During his time in Mississauga, the Canadian was also increasingly responsible for Canada's junior national teams, for example, as assistant coach, he won the gold medal in 2009 and the silver medal in 2010 at the U20 world championships. At the U20 World Cup in 2011 , he stood behind the gang for the first time as head coach and won the silver medal, although the team led 3-0 in the final against Russia before they were defeated by five goals in the last period with 3-5.

Ottawa and Calgary

With these successes, Cameron also became interesting for NHL franchises, so the Ottawa Senators hired him at the beginning of the 2011/12 season as an assistant coach under the new head coach Paul MacLean ; however, Cameron was also considered for the position of head coach. Although MacLean received the Jack Adams Award for Best Coach in 2013, General Manager Bryan Murray fired him in December 2014 and installed Cameron as his successor.

Under Cameron, the Senators won 32 of the 55 remaining games, with the team catching up a 14-point deficit on the playoff spots, something no team in modern NHL history had achieved. Thus, after a year of abstinence , Cameron led the Sens back into the playoffs , in which, however, they failed in the first round at the Canadiens de Montréal . After the 2014/15 season he signed a new two-year contract. However, after the team missed the playoffs in the 2015/16 season, Cameron and his coaching staff were sacked in April 2016. A few weeks later he was Bill Peters' assistant coach with the Canadian senior team at the 2016 World Cup , where he won the gold medal with the team

In July 2016, he was introduced as Glen Gulutzan's assistant coach at the Calgary Flames . Together they looked after the team for two seasons, but were relieved of their duties in April 2018 after missing the playoffs.

Vienna Capitals

In May 2018, Cameron was introduced as the new head coach of Vienna Capitals from the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League . In his first year as head coach he reached the final, but failed at the EC KAC . The extension of the contract was announced at the end of the season.

Achievements and Awards

as a player
  • 1981 CHL Second All-Star Team
as an assistant coach
as head coach

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts +/- PIM GP G A. Pts +/- PIM
1976/77 University of Prince Edward Island CIAU 20th 7th 10 17th 12 - - - - - -
1977/78 University of Prince Edward Island CIAU 16 13 30th 43 26th - - - - - -
1978/79 University of Prince Edward Island CIAU 13 7th 22nd 29 39 - - - - - -
1979/80 Fort Wayne Comet IHL 6th 3 6th 9 9 - - - - - -
1979/80 Indianapolis Checkers CHL 70 15th 21st 36 101 7th 0 0 0 16
1980/81 Indianapolis Checkers CHL 78 40 30th 70 156 5 2 3 5 4th
1981/82 Fort Worth Texans CHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - - -
1981/82 Colorado Rockies NHL 66 11 12 23 -14 103 - - - - - -
1982/83 Wichita wind CHL 25th 6th 9 15th 40 - - - - - -
1982/83 New Jersey Devils NHL 35 5 4th 9 -8th 50 - - - - - -
1983/84 New Jersey Devils NHL 67 9 12 21st –11 85 - - - - - -
1984/85 Maine Mariners AHL 12 0 1 1 32 - - - - - -
Moncton Golden Flames AHL 37 8th 16 24 82 - - - - - -
1985/86 Charlotte Islanders NBSHL 15th 9 16 25th 54 - - - - - -
1986/87 Charlotte Islanders NBSHL 11 5 17th 22nd 69 - - - - - -
1987-1989 Summerside Western Capitals MJrHL no statistics available
1989/90 Fredericton Alpines NBSHL 14th 0 8th 8th 30th 6th 1 6th 7th
1990/91 Charlottetown Islanders NBSHL 25th 23 21st 44 69 - - - - - -
1991-1994 - - not active
1994/95 Saint John Flames AHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
NBSHL overall 65 37 62 99 222 6th 1 6th 7th
CIAU total 49 27 62 89 77 - - - - - -
CHL total 175 61 60 121 297 12 2 3 5 20th
AHL total 50 8th 17th 25th 114 - - - - - -
NHL overall 168 25th 28 53 -33 238 - - - - - -

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

NHL coaching statistics

team season regular season Play-offs
Games S. N OTL Pts space S. N result
Ottawa Senators 2014/15 55 32 15th 8th 72 4. ( Atlantic ) 2 4th Conference quarterfinals
Ottawa Senators 2015/16 82 38 35 9 85 5. (Atlantic) not qualified
total 137 70 50 17th 157 0 division title 2 4th 0 Stanley Cups

S = victories; N = defeats; OTL = defeat in overtime or shootout ; Pts = points

Personal

Cameron is married and has two sons. One of his sons, Connor Cameron (* 1985), played for several years in the OHL, including with his father as the head coach of the Toronto St. Michael's Majors , before he ended his active career early and since 2013 as assistant coach of the Charlottetown Islanders in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec operates.

His brother, Charlie Cameron, also played in his youth (1981-1984) for the Summerside Western Capitals ice hockey.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Charlottetown Islanders played in the New Brunswick Senior Hockey League (NBSHL) and are not to be confused with today's Charlottetown Islanders from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec .
  2. ^ Dave Cameron, by the numbers. The Journal Pioneer, December 8, 2014, accessed March 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ New York Islanders Media Guide 2014–2015 . New York Islanders Hockey Club, 2014, p. 268.
  4. ^ A b Don Brennan: The Dave Cameron file. Ottawa Sun, December 9, 2014, accessed March 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Ken Warren: Senators' new coach Cameron ready for big time. vancouversun.com, December 9, 2014, accessed February 22, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Chris Stevenson: Senators fire MacLean, name Cameron coach. nhl.com, December 8, 2014, accessed March 17, 2015 .
  7. ↑ By the Numbers: Matchup with Habs offers Senators some hope. Ottawa Citizen , April 15, 2015, accessed April 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Chris Stevenson: Senators coach Cameron agrees to a two-year contract. nhl.com, June 4, 2015, accessed June 5, 2015 .
  9. ^ Senators fire Cameron, assistant coaches. nhl.com, April 12, 2016, accessed April 12, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Dave Cameron new Head Coach of the Vienna Capitals. vienna-capitals.at, May 7, 2018, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Caps lose final series against EC KAC. vienna-capitals.at, April 25, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ 700 fans made the pilgrimage to the season end party. vienna-capitals.at, April 27, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Ottawa Senators Media Guide 2014–2015 . Ottawa Senators Hockey Club, 2014, p. 11.
  14. ↑ Summerside Western Capitals Alumni Vault 1981–1989. (No longer available online.) Summerside Western Capitals, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gocapsgo.ca
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Vienna Capitals squad in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Cameron, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cameron, David William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , Canada