Lance Nethery
 Lance Nethery 
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| Date of birth | June 28, 1957 |
| place of birth | Toronto , Ontario , Canada |
| size | 185 cm |
| Weight | 84 kg |
| position | striker |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Draft | |
| NHL Amateur Draft |
1977 , 8th lap, 131st position New York Rangers |
| Career stations | |
| 1975-1979 | Cornell University |
| 1979-1980 | New Haven Nighthawks |
| 1980-1981 | New York Rangers |
| 1981-1982 | Wichita wind |
| 1982-1983 | Duisburger SC |
| 1983-1986 | HC Davos |
| 1986 | Hershey Bears |
| 1986-1988 | HC Davos |
| 1988-1990 | SC Herisau |
| 1990-1991 | HC Davos |
Lance Nethery (born June 28, 1957 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach as well as today's official , who has been under contract with Füchsen Duisburg in the Oberliga Nord since May 2018 . Before his time as an ice hockey official, he was a coach at the DEL Club Adler Mannheim from 1994 to 1999 , with whom he became German champions three times in a row from 1997 to 1999 .
Player career
In the course of his active career, Nethery, who was selected in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft in 131st position by the New York Rangers , played 55 times in the best league in the world for the Rangers and the Edmonton Oilers . In his career , the striker also played for the AHL teams New Haven Nighthawks , Springfield Indians and Hershey Bears , Duisburger SC and the Swiss National League A club HC Davos . The greatest successes were two championships with Davos in 1984 and 1985, the runner-up in 1986, reaching the conference finals with the New York Rangers in 1981 and participation in the final of the Calder Cup in 1986 with the Hershey Bears.
Trainer and functionary career
Time in Switzerland
After his active time, Nethery worked successfully both as a trainer and as a manager of clubs, mainly in Germany. In 1990 Nethery took on his first coaching position as head coach and worked for two years at HC Davos, with whom he was promoted to the Swiss National League B for the 1990/91 season . After these two years he worked for one season at SC Bern as the head coach of the NLA before returning to Germany.
Beginnings in Germany and title hat trick with Mannheim
In 1993 Nethery became an assistant coach at EV Landshut in the 1st Bundesliga. After that year, the Adler Mannheim signed him , which he looked after from 1994 to 1999 in the position of head coach. In the seasons 1996/97 , 1997/98 and 1998/99 he won three championships in a row with this team . The Adler benefited like no other team from the so-called Bosman judgment . The extensive scouting trip of manager Marcus Kuhl and Nethery through Europe paid off, because players like the Italian goalkeeper Mike Rosati , the Belgian defender Mike Pellegrims or the French Philippe Bozon and Christian Pouget had a strong season. With a multi-cultural team consisting of players from eight nations, the Adler finally dominated the league and remained in the 1997 playoffs as the first and so far only team without defeat.
Cologne Sharks
He then moved to the Kölner Haien , which he looked after from the gang in 1999/2000 and with whom, in addition to the Spengler Cup success in Davos - the first and to date the last win by a German team in 35 years - he also won the main round of DEL finished in first place and eventually became runner-up. Due to Andy Murray's change in the summer of 1999, Nethery also took on the role of manager in the same year, although the team had already been put together for the season. He then gave up the coaching post, but coached the team again this season after the dismissal of his successor Bob Leslie . In spring 2002 he resigned from all posts and was succeeded by his assistant Rich Chernomaz , who won the championship with the sharks.
Frankfurt Lions
For the 2002/03 season the Frankfurt Lions signed Nethery as head coach. The Lions were penultimate in the main round and were after the defeat in the play-down series against the Schwenninger Wild Wings as a sporting relegation of the DEL. Due to the initiated insolvency proceedings, the Wild Wings could not get a DEL license for the following season, which made it possible for the Lions to stay. The club held on to Nethery, but this moved to the orphaned manager position. The Canadian changed the team fundamentally, signed 18 new players around the then superstar Patrick Lebeau and also guided his friend Jesse Bélanger to the Lions. At the end of the 2003/04 season , the Lions were German ice hockey champions; they did not lose a home game in the play-offs and defeated the Eisbären Berlin in the DEL final .
During the NHL lockout , Nethery also resorted to North American players, although he was initially reluctant to take on NHL loans and signed defender Stéphane Robidas and center forward Doug Weight , among others .
DEG Metro Stars
After his successful managerial time with Frankfurt, he went to Düsseldorf to join the DEG Metro Stars , which had deteriorated continuously since the 2002/03 season (main round rank three) and were able to finish the 2004/05 season in tenth place. Nethery did not change the team fundamentally, but selectively and dissolved for this current player contracts; As the new head coach, he steered the two-time Stanley Cup winner Don Jackson to DEG. Nethery's contract, which originally ran until 2008, was extended to 2012 at the end of the 2006/07 season. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season Nethery dismissed his coach Slavomír Lener on November 4, 2007 and took over the coaching position himself again. With a strong final spurt by DEG, Nethery still managed the targeted minimum goal of pre-playoff qualification, which was successfully achieved against the Hannover Scorpions. In the semifinals, his team was eliminated from the eventual German champions Eisbären Berlin in five games of the best-of-five series.
For the 2008/09 season he installed Harold Kreis as the new head coach. Nethery already worked with Kreis in Mannheim and Cologne. The team was fundamentally redesigned, as long-standing top performers such as Tore Vikingstad and Klaus Kathan in attack or Robert Dietrich and Darren Van Impe in defense had to be replaced. The change came in the same year and DEG was able to advance to the final of the German Ice Hockey League after third place in the main round, which, however, as in 2006, they lost to the polar bears. It was Nethery's third DEL runner-up. The strong performances in the following season ended with the Olympic break and a negative series of eight defeats in eleven games caused Nethery to dismiss, this time two game days before the end of the main round. Kreis and his assistant, the former DEG defender Mike Schmidt , were removed from their offices with immediate effect, Nethery returned to the gang and also installed Bob Leslie as the new assistant coach with no success: In the last two main round games and in the three playoffs -DEG lost the quarter-finals against Wolfsburg. It was the first time that a DEG team under Nethery did not at least reach the semi-finals.
At the beginning of the 2010/11 season, Nethery succeeded in signing head coach Jeff Tomlinson and assistant coach Tray Tuomie . The budget was cut and more young players such as Martin Hinterstocker, Diego Hofland and Marko Nowak were used. In January 2012, Düsseldorf separated from Nethery.
Cologne Sharks
On February 15, 2013, Nethery returned to his former club, where he succeeded Thomas Eichin as managing director, who moved to the Bundesliga club Werder Bremen . On October 10, 2014, the entire sporting leadership of the Kölner Haie, including Lance Nethery, was dismissed.
Foxes Duisburg
In January 2015 Nethery was introduced as the new team boss of the upper division EV Duisburg . The former national player Uli Egen initially worked as an equal coach at his side . After missing promotion to the DEL2, Egen was replaced by Tomáš Martinec in mid-2015 . From this in turn, the club separated in December of the same year. Then team boss Nethery worked with the Canadian coach Brian McCutcheon . McCutcheon returned to North America after the 2015/16 season, and Nethery took over as head coach in addition to his duties as team manager for the 2016/17 season. He was released on February 12, 2017 in Duisburg. "The reason for the separation is that, due to current events, the management of Füchse Duisburg was no longer convinced that they would achieve the goals they had set for sport," said the association's report.
On May 1, 2018, Nethery returned to Füchsen Duisburg as sporting director.
Achievements and Awards
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Web links
- Lance Nethery at hockeydb.com (English)
- Lance Nethery at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Lance Nethery at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The official book of the German Ice Hockey League: 20 Years of DEL, page 178
- ↑ focus.de on January 25, 2012, ice hockey - DEL: Sale at DEG - Nethery is immediate
- ↑ Kölner Haie dismiss complete sports leadership , on ksta.de. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ↑ NRZ.de: Lance Nethery is the new EVD team boss (January 27, 2015)
- ↑ NRZ.de: Nethery's support is called Uli Egen (January 28, 2015)
- ↑ Martinec does it at EVD (May 12, 2015)
- ↑ NRZ.de: From Another Ice Hockey World (December 17, 2015)
- ↑ Lance Nethery becomes head coach of Füchse Duisburg - first extensions in the Fuchsbau. In: Foxes Duisburg. Retrieved April 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Füchse Duisburg release Lance Nethery with immediate effect. In: Foxes Duisburg. February 12, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017 .
- ↑ https://fuechse-duisburg.de/2018/03/18/ueber-300-fans-beim-fuechse-fanschluss-in-der-kenston-arena-lance-nethery-kehrt-als-sportlicher-leiter-zurueck /
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| SURNAME | Nethery, Lance |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |