Career
He is the current assistant coach of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League. Herbers was drafted in the tenth round, 190th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1987 National Hockey League Entry He made it to the National Hockey League in the 1993-1994 season, appearing in 22 games with the Edmonton Oilers. Herbers would not find his way to the National Hockey League again until the 1999–2000 season with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Lightning then traded him to the New York Islanders on March 9, 2000, in exchange for a seventh-round pick in the 2000 National Hockey League Entry After finishing the season with the Islanders, Herbers was left unprotected in the 2000 National Hockey League Expansion and was picked by the Minnesota Wild.
After spending the 2000-2001 season with the Wild"s International Hockey League affiliate, the Cleveland Lumberjacks, Herbers went to Great Britain. He played for the Ayr Scottish Eagles of the British Ice Hockey Superleague for one season and the Guildford Flames of the British National League for another.
He briefly returned to North American hockey in the 2003-2004 season, playing in four games for the United Hockey League"s Flint Generals, before retiring. Herbers became an assistant coach with the AHL San Antonio Rampage in 2004 before the lockout.
From the AHL, Herbers then moved to the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 2005.
He spent two years there, before being named the head coach of the ECHL"s Johnstown Chiefs in 2007. On 5 August 2009, he became an Assistant Coach with the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League. On November 28, 2011, after the departure of Kirk Muller to the Carolina Hurricanes, Herbers was named head coach of the Milwaukee Admirals.
In late May 2012, Herbers left the Milwaukee Admirals to begin coaching the men"s hockey team at his alma mater, the University of Alberta.