Lambert leaves Tech for Texas
Eight months after taking a job with The Tech 1921 Ltd. — first-year owners of the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League — Denny Lambert has resigned his position as director of hockey operations.
Lambert told HockeyNewsNorth.com that he has accepted a post as associate coach with the Texas-based Allen Americans of the East Coast Hockey League.
“I am excited about the opportunity to work at the pro level with the highly-successful Allen Americans organization,” Lambert told HockeyNewsNorth.com. “The team is coached by Steve Martinson, who has had a lot of success in his coaching career and I’m looking forward to learning and working with him.”
Lambert did not get into specifics about his sudden departure from The Tech 1921 Ltd., which hired him to start a hockey academy as part of a private school that is slated to open in the fall of this year.
Having spent the majority of his life in the sport including 11 years as a player, assistant coach and head coach with the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League mixed between an improbable career in the National Hockey League as a relentless winger who stuck it out to skate in more than 500 games, the 46-year old Lambert had left his job as a health and safety responder at Essar Steel to go to work for The Tech 1921 Ltd.
Good luck Denny all the best
i guess there must be some truth to the rumours about the tech group. I am sure that denny being the class act that he is did not want to throw dirt at his former employer as he was departing. From what i have personally heard from many individuals the financial situation with this tech group is much , much worse than reported. How long before jordan smith decides to jump ship. Look for the next open assistant coaching job in the ohl and i am sure that you will see smith’s resume. I guess this tech group bit off more than they can chew. Let’s hope for the sake of junior hockey in this city someone comes in to save the day for the tbirds. This storied franchise deserves a better ending. Good luck to you denny in all future endeavours.
this has all the makings of a “Al Donnon” Pipe dream and getting rich on Junior Hockey… The Tech should go back to what they are good at…IN MY OPINION
don’t get me started.