The Islanders have their new head coach, announcing Monday that they have promoted Associate Head Coach Lane Lambert to Head Coach.
“I had the opportunity to work with Lane over the past four years, which includes spending time with him on a one-on-one basis when he served as the interim Head Coach this past season,” Islanders President and General Manager Lou Lamoriello said in a team statement. “In my opinion, he is the right person to coach this team.”
Lambert had served as the Associate Coach of the Islanders for the past four seasons, and replaces Barry Trotz, who was relieved of his duties earlier this month shortly after the Isles' 2021-22 season ended.
The 2022-23 season will be Lambert's 20th season on the bench. He began his coaching career as the head coach of the WHL's Prince George Cougars from 2003-05, then spent one year as an assistant with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers and one as an assistant with the AHL's Milwaukee Admirals before being promoted to Admirals head coach and serving in that role from 2007-11.
Lambert was named an assistant in Nashville in 2011, and spent three years there and four as an assistant in Washington before joining the Islanders.
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As a player, Lambert was a second-round pick of the Red Wings in 1983 as a center, and he scored 124 points in 283 games between 1983-89 with the Red Wings, Rangers, and Nordiques, winning the AHL's Calder Cup with the Adirondack Red Wings in 1986. Following his final NHL/AHL season in '88-'89, Lambert spent three years overseas and six in the IHL, winning the Turner Cup with Houston in 1998-99 and finishing his career in 2000-01 when the IHL ceased operations.
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