Dave Lowry

Dave Lowry
Date of birth	February 14, 1965
place of birth	Sudbury , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1983 , 6th lap, 110th position Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1982-1985	London Knights
1985-1988	Vancouver Canucks
1988-1993	St. Louis Blues
1993-1997	Florida panthers
1997-2000	San Jose Sharks
2000-2004	Calgary Flames

David John "Dave" Lowry (born February 14, 1965 in Sudbury , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach , who played 1195 games for the Vancouver Canucks , St. Louis Blues in the course of his playing career between 1982 and 2004 , Florida Panthers , San Jose Sharks and Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger . Lowry has been the head coach of the Brandon Wheat Kings from the Western Hockey League since the 2019/20 season . His son Adam is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Lowry first played three years from 1982 to 1985 in the Ontario Hockey League with the London Knights . In the three years he has always improved his points and reached its peak in his last season with 120 points in 61 games and his appointment to the First All-Star Team of the OHL. After the left winger had already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1983 in the sixth round in 110th position by the Vancouver Canucks , he joined the franchise for the 1985/86 season .

The Canadian made it straight to the Canucks NHL squad and played 73 of the 80 season games in his rookie season. He was also part of the regular squad in the following season, before he was initially deported to the farm team in the 1987/88 season and so came to only 22 NHL missions that season. Shortly before the start of the 1988/89 season , Lowry was transferred to the St. Louis Blues , where he spent his first season, as in the previous year, between the NHL and the minor leagues . It was not until the 1989/90 season that the striker established himself in the Blues squad and played his best NHL year with 40 points in 79 games in the 1990/91 season before he had to leave St. Louis in the summer of 1993 as he was unprotected in the NHL Expansion Draft in 1993 where the newly formed Florida Panthers selected him. As an experienced player, Lowry was part of the Panthers' squad for the following four seasons, with whom he surprisingly reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 1995/96 season . There they were subject to the Colorado Avalanche . The fourth NHL station of the Canadian were the San Jose Sharks , who received him in a transfer deal in November 1997 and employed him until the end of the 1999/00 season . After Lowry was long out of his last season with the Sharks due to a shoulder injury, he moved to the Calgary Flames as a free agent in the summer of 2000 . At the Flames, after Steve Smith's resignation in December 2000 , he took over the position of team captain , which he only lost during the 2002/03 season when he returned to the farm team for the first time after 14 years under coach Greg Gilbert due to his poor performance on the ice was deported. He finally ended his active career after the 2003/04 season , in which he had only sparse playing times and had been out for a long time due to an abdominal injury.

After his active career, he worked in the 2005/06 season as an assistant coach for the Calgary Hitmen from the Western Hockey League and later as their head coach. On July 19, 2012, he was appointed head coach of the Victoria Royals from the WHL. He held this position for five years and during this time he was also twice in charge of the Canadian U20 national team as an assistant at world championships, before he was introduced as the new assistant coach of the Los Angeles Kings in May 2017 . There he was active for two years before returning to the WHL as head coach of the Brandon Wheat Kings .

Achievements and Awards

• 1985 OHL First All-Star Team
• 2014 Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy (as head coach)
• 2016 Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy (as head coach)

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1982/83	London Knights	OHL		42	11	16	27	48		3	0	0	0	14th
1983/84	London Knights	OHL		66	29	47	76	125		8th	6th	6th	12	41
1984/85	London Knights	OHL		61	60	60	120	94		8th	6th	5	11	10
1985/86	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		73	10	8th	18th	143		3	0	0	0	0
1986/87	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		70	8th	10	18th	176		-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	Fredericton Express	AHL		46	18th	27	45	59		14th	7th	3	10	72
1987/88	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		22nd	1	3	4th	38		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Peoria Rivermen	IHL		58	31	35	66	45		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	St. Louis Blues	NHL		21st	3	3	6th	11		10	0	5	5	4th
1989/90	St. Louis Blues	NHL		78	19th	6th	25th	75		12	2	1	3	39
1990/91	St. Louis Blues	NHL		79	19th	21st	40	168		13	1	4th	5	35
1991/92	St. Louis Blues	NHL		75	7th	13	20th	77		6th	0	1	1	20th
1992/93	St. Louis Blues	NHL		58	5	8th	13	101		11	2	0	2	14th
1993/94	Florida panthers	NHL		80	15th	22nd	37	64		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Florida panthers	NHL		45	10	10	20th	25th		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Florida panthers	NHL		63	10	14th	24	36		22nd	10	7th	17th	39
1996/97	Florida panthers	NHL		77	15th	14th	29	51		5	0	0	0	0
1997/98	Florida panthers	NHL		7th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	San Jose Sharks	NHL		50	4th	4th	8th	51		6th	0	0	0	18th
1998/99	San Jose Sharks	NHL		61	6th	9	15th	24		1	0	0	0	0
1999/00	San Jose Sharks	NHL		32	1	4th	5	18th		12	1	2	3	6th
2000/01	Calgary Flames	NHL		79	18th	17th	35	47		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Calgary Flames	NHL		62	7th	6th	13	51		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Saint John Flames	AHL		22nd	3	6th	9	16		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Calgary Flames	NHL		34	5	14th	19th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Calgary Flames	NHL		18th	1	1	2	11		10	0	0	0	6th
OHL total				169	100	123	223	267		19th	12	11	23	65
AHL total				68	21st	33	54	75		14th	7th	3	10	72
NHL overall				1084	164	187	351	1191		111	16	20th	36	181

( 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 )

Web links

• Dave Lowry at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Dave Lowry at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Dave Lowry at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Royals name Dave Lowry Head Coach. (No longer available online.) Western Hockey League , July 19, 2012, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; accessed on July 22, 2012 (English). 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.