Career
He started his hockey career with the Saint John"s Capitals (Caps) of the Avalon Junior Hockey League. He left home at the young age of 14 to play with the Notre Dame Hounds. He then went on to play college hockey with Michigan State.
From there he joined the AHL"s Cornwall Aces after being drafted by the Quebec Nordiques (127th overall) in the 1990 National Hockey League Entry Draft.
The Aces then moved their team to Halifax in 1994 under the name Halifax Citadels. Norris appeared in 20 National Hockey League regular season games for the Nordiques and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, scoring 2 goals and 4 assists for 6 points and collecting 8 penalty minutes.
In 1996 he moved to Germany and joined the Kölner Haie (Cologne Sharks) of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. After three more seasons Norris retired from active play and, in a surprise move by his last club, became the Lions" General Manager in 2007, a position he held until the team filed for bankruptcy in May 2010.
Norris is still now involved in hockey, he is the hockey director of an elite youth hockey program in Michigan, the Oakland Junior Grizzlies.
Norris has three sons, all involved in the Oakland Junior Grizzlies American Automobile Association program He currently coaches the Bantam Major and PeeWee Major Grizzly American Automobile Association hockey teams. Don Cherry once referred to Norris as "one of the best damn skaters to come out of this country".
Cherry also stated numerous times that he should have been given more ice time in Quebec and Anaheim.