Dwayne Norris

Dwayne Norris
Date of birth	January 8, 1970
place of birth	St. John's , Newfoundland , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1990 , 7th lap, 127th position Quebec Nordiques
Career stations
1988-1992	University of Michigan
1992-1993	Halifax Citadels
1993-1995	Cornwall Aces
1995-1996	Baltimore Bandits
1996-2003	Cologne Sharks
2003-2007	Frankfurt Lions

Carl Dwayne Norris (born January 8, 1970 in St. John's , Newfoundland ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and was the manager of the Frankfurt Lions in the German Ice Hockey League until bankruptcy in 2010 . His brother Warren was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Dwayne Norris began professional ice hockey at the University of Michigan in 1988 and played with their team in the NCAA for four years . After the winger was drawn during the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 in the seventh round in a total of 127th place by the Quebec Nordiques and had won the title with the Canadian selection at the Junior World Championship in the same year , he tried in the American Hockey League in 1992 to gain a foothold in the Halifax Citadels . There he only played for a year before he traveled around with Team Canada in the 1993/94 season and finally ended the season with the Quebec Nordiques and their farm team .

At the 1994 Olympics , he was part of Team Canada and won the silver medal. After he received only a few missions for the NHL team in Quebec in the following year, he moved to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 1995 . But even here he only stayed for one season due to the poor perspective.

In the summer of 1996, Norris decided to move to Europe and accepted an offer from the Kölner Haie from the German Ice Hockey League. He played for the KEC for a total of seven years. He won the Spengler Cup in Davos with the Haien in 1999 and the German championship in 2002 ; In the 2002 DEL final against Adler Mannheim , he scored all of the winning goals for the Haie. He was also runner-up with the Cologne team in 2000 and 2003 . For the 2003/04 season he joined the league competitor Frankfurt Lions , with whom he won the title in the first year. In the 2004/05 season he was the player with the best plus / minus value with +33 . Norris' contract with the Lions ran until the end of the 2006/07 season . After the end of his active career in the summer of 2007, he took over the position of manager at the Frankfurt Lions and remained there until bankruptcy in 2010.

Dwayne Norris is married and has three sons who play ice hockey for the Young Lions.

Achievements and Awards

1988 Credential Cup win with the Notre Dame Hounds 1988 Centennial Cup win with the Notre Dame Hounds 1992 CCHA First All-Star Team 1992 CCHA Player of the Year 1992 NCAA West First All-American Team 1995 AHL All-Star Classic 1995 AHL First All-Star Team

1996 AHL All-Star Classic 1996 AHL Second All-Star Team 2002 German champion with the Kölner Haie 2004 German champion with the Frankfurt Lions 2005 DEL All-Star Game 2005 Best plus / minus balance of the 2004/05 DEL season 2007 DEL All-Star Game

International

• 1990 gold medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1994 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	3	20th	2	4th	6th	8th
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	4th	181	88	135	223	139
AHL playoffs	3	37	20th	21st	41	33
DEL main round	11	533	179	275	454	687
DEL playoffs	10	76	27	24	51	133

Web links

• Dwayne Norris at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dwayne Norris at eurohockey.com
• Dwayne Norris at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Dwayne Norris in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )