Career
Nachbaur is currently the head coach of the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League. Nachbaur played in the National Hockey League with the Hartford Whalers, Edmonton Oilers, and Philadelphia Flyers, Nachbaur played professional hockey for 14 years, including parts of eight seasons in the National Hockey League with the Hartford Whalers, Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers. In 223 career National Hockey League games, he scored 23 goals, added 46 assists and recorded 465 penalty minutes.
He was Hartford’s third-round selection (60th overall) in the 1979 National Hockey League Entry Draft.
Nachbaur played 469 games in the American Hockey League where he scored 174 goals, added 187 assists for a total of 361 points. He accumulated 1,452 penalty minutes.
Nachbaur played for European Commission Graz in Austria from 1990 to 1994 where in 182 games he scored 106 goals and added 103 assists for 209 points. Nachbaur played his junior career with the Billings Bighorns of the WHL. In two seasons, where he played 162 games (Regular Season and Playoffs), he scored 87 goals, added 89 assists for 176 points and accumulated 350 minutes in penalties.
Nachbaur still shares the WHL record for most goals in a playoff game where he scored 5 goals on April 20, 1978, at Vancouver, against New Westminster Bruins.
Nachbaur is currently the head coach of the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League. Nachbaur left his post as coach of the Binghamton Senators over the summer of 2010, citing personal reasons. He was given an unprecedented 5-year contract offer to come to Spokane, which he accepted.
Nachbaur had been head coach of the Western Hockey League’s Tri-City Americans for the last six seasons, earning a.592 winning percentage with 235 wins, 155 losses, 25 overtime losses and 17 shootout defeats over the span of 432 regular-season games.
His teams made the playoffs in each of his seasons behind the bench, advancing as far as the conference final in 2007-2008. Nachbaur has twice been named WHL coach of the year, first in 1994-1995 when he led the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 42-28-2 record and again with Tri-City in 2007-2008, when the club recorded a franchise record 108 regular-season points with a 52-16-2-2 record.
Before his move to bench boss for the Americans, Nachbaur served as an assistant coach from 2000-2001 to 2001-2002 with the American Hockey League’s Philadelphia Phantoms. The 54-year-old Nachbaur began his coaching career in 1994-1995, when he was named head coach of the Seattle Thunderbirds.
