Dave Chambers

For other people named David Chambers, see David Chambers (disambiguation).

Dave Chambers (born May 7, 1940) is a Canadian former ice hockey coach. Chambers coached the Quebec Nordiques of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1990 until 1991.

Dave Chambers

Biographical details
Born	(1940-05-07) May 7, 1940 Leaside, Ontario, Canada
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1969–1970	Saskatchewan
1970–1972	Ohio State
1972–1977	York
1977–1978	HC Gherdëina
1978–1979	Toronto Marlboros (Assistant)
1979–1980	Toronto Marlboros
1980–1982	SC Bern
1981–1983	Team Italy
1984–1987	York
1987	Team Italy
1988	Canada U20
1989–1990	Minnesota North Stars (Assistant)
1990–1991	Quebec Nordiques
2000–2003	ZSC Lions (Assistant)
2003–2005	SC Langnau (Assistant)
2006–2008	ZSC Lions (Assistant)
2008–2009	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers (Assistant)
2008–2009	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
2010–2011	SC Langenthal (Sr. Advisor)
2012–2013	HC Lugano (Assistant)
2013–2015	Schwenninger Wild Wings (Assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall	44-14-0 (.759) [College]

Born in Leaside, Ontario, Chambers played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey Association with the Guelph Biltmores and Toronto St. Michael's Majors, university hockey with the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia, and senior hockey before moving on to coaching.

With the early development of the Canadian National team, Chambers coached at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Guelph before landing a coaching job at Ohio State University for two seasons from 1970 to 1972. He left Ohio State to coach at York University in his native Toronto. He is the winningest coach in Ohio State history by winning percentage and won the CCHA championship in 1972. At York University, his teams won three division championships, three Ontario Championships, and one Canadian championship. His university coaching record over 14 years was 334 wins, 110 losses for a winning percentage of .750 and it included three coach of the year awards. He later took a position behind the bench of the junior league Toronto Marlboros and won the OHL Matt Leyden Trophy coach of the year award in 1980. He was coach of the gold medal-winning Canadian team at the 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Moscow. Chambers served as an assistant coach with the Minnesota North Stars and then was the head coach of the Quebec Nordiques from 1990 to 1991 in the NHL.

Chambers was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame at York University in 2006 and the University of British Columbia in 2012. He has also authored six books and numerous articles on ice hockey, training methods, and coaching. Two of these books, The Hockey Drill Book published by Human Kinetics Pub. and Coaching: the Art and Science published by Firefly Books, have been translated and published by the Russian Sport Federation.

Head coaching record

NHL

Team	Year	Regular season							Post season
		G	W	L	T	OTL	Pts	Finish	Result
Quebec Nordiques	1990–91	80	16	50	14	-	46	5th in Adams	Missed playoffs
Quebec Nordiques	1991–92	18	3	14	1	-	(52)	5th in Adams	(fired)
Total		98	19	64	15	-	53	0 division titles	(0-0, 0.000) - 0 Stanley Cups

OHL

Team	Year	Regular season							Post season
		G	W	L	T	OTL	Pts	Finish	Result
Toronto Marlboros	1979–80	68	33	32	3	-	69	2nd in Emms	Lost in division semi-finals (0-4 vs. BFD)

College

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Ohio State Buckeyes Independent (1970–1971)
1970–71	Ohio State	20-9-0
Ohio State Buckeyes (CCHA) (1971–1972)
1971–72	Ohio State	24-5-0	8-4-0	1st	CCHA Champion
Total:		44-14-0	8-4-0
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from The Internet Hockey Database