Background
Lambert grew up in the community of Saint Malo, in southeastern Manitoba, and played his minor hockey in Saint Malo, Steinbach, and Ste.
Lambert grew up in the community of Saint Malo, in southeastern Manitoba, and played his minor hockey in Saint Malo, Steinbach, and Ste.
He is currently an assistant coach with the National Hockey League"s Buffalo Sabres. Anne. He played one season of high school hockey in Warroad, Minnesota, before joining the Swift Current Broncos of the Western Hockey League as a 16-year-old in 1986. Midway into his first season with the Broncos, the team bus was involved in a fatal crash that claimed the lives of four Broncos players.
Lambert recalls playing through the grief that season and making the playoffs as his proudest hockey memory.
Two seasons later, he scored an incredible 102 points in just 57 regular season games. His 244 career assists stands as a franchise record.
Lambert was drafted 106th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1989 National Hockey League Entry Draft. From 1990 to 1992, Lambert split his time between the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League, Halifax Citadels of the American Hockey League, and Nordiques.
He played a total of 29 games for the Nordiques, scoring 15 points.
In June 1992, Lambert was traded to the Winnipeg Jets and spent the entire 1992-1993 season with the Moncton Hawks, their AHL affiliate. Lambert did not play a game in the National Hockey League that season and decided to leave to play in Finland after the season ended. He played only 13 games there before returning to North American to play for the Komets in 1993-1994.
In 1994, Lambert joined the San Diego Gulls of the IHL. The team played one season in San Diego before moving to Los Angeles for one season, and finally settled in Long Beach, California to become the Long Beach Ice Dogs.
During his five seasons with franchise, Lambert was one of the IHL"s premier defenceman, scoring 308 points in 353 games. He was named an all-star four times and received the Governor"s Trophy as the league"s top defenceman in 1998.
He also led all defencemen in scoring twice. After one season in Cologne, he played three with the Krefeld Penguins, one with the Hamburg Freezers and five with the Hannover Scorpions.
Lambert helped lead Krefeld to a DEL championship in 2003.
Lambert retired from professional hockey in 2009. Lambert had the opportunity to play for Canada on a number of occasions in international competition, most notably at the 1989 World Junior Championships in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2005, Lambert was named as Team Canada"s captain for the Deutschland Cup.
After retiring as a player in 2009, Lambert joined the Kelowna Rockets organization, first as an assistant coach and then as the head coach.
He also served as one of Canada"s three head coaches for the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge. Lambert was hired as an assistant coach by the Buffalo Sabres in July 2015.
They make their off-season home in Arizona.