Dave Chambers

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

Dave Chambers (born May 7, 1940 in Leaside, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey coach.

After playing junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey Association,university hockey and 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 1970-72. 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 3 division championships, 3 Ontario Championships and 1 Canadian championship.His university coaching record over 14 years was 334 wins 110 loses for a winning percentage of .750 and included 3 coach of the year awards. He later took a position behind the bench of the junior league Toronto Marlboros and won the Coach of the Year award for the OHL,1980. [1][2] 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 head coach of the Quebec Nordiques from 1990 to 1992 in the N.H.L. 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 6 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.[3]

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

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 second round

NCAA

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Ohio State University (Independent) (1970-71–1970-71)
1970-71	Ohio State	20-9-0
Ohio State University (CCHA) (1971-72–1971-72)
1971-72	Ohio State	24-5-0	8-4-0	1st
Total:		44-14-0
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

• Dave Chambers's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

Preceded by Michel Bergeron

Head coach of the Quebec Nordiques 1990–91

Succeeded by Pierre Pagé