Monday, January 20, 2025

Vipers Alumni Lord Looks Back At His Own NCAA-Major Junior Angst & Effect On Career Path:

Former Vernon Vipers forward Andrew Lord looks back at his

own NCAA-major junior angst and effect on career path.

Here is the story from the Chronicle Herald,


Lord is in his first season as Head Coach of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League Halifax Mooseheads. The Mooseheads are last in the Eastern Conference with a 13-23-6-0 record.

Lord spent the past four seasons as Head Coach/GM/Dir. of Hockey Operations with the ECHL Greenville Swamp Rabbits before being named Head Coach of the Halifax Mooseheads June 14th 2024. Lord was named the 2023-24 ECHL Coach of the Year. Lord and the Swamp Rabbits finished 1st in the South Division with a record of 44-23-4-1 Greenville made the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season and captured the division title for the first time since 2010-11. Lord is 155-94-39 in the regular season and 14-18 in the postseason. Lord and the Swamp Rabbits lost to Orlando in six games in the South Division Semifinals.

Prior to joining the Swamp Rabbits, Lord spent seven years with the British Elite Ice Hockey League Cardiff Devils from 2013-2020 as player, Head Coach & director of Hockey Operations. The Devils are a Welsh ice hockey team that play in the BEIHL. 

After a scholarship to RPI (Rensselaer Poly Inst) from 2004-2008, Lord spent four years with four different teams in the ECHL & American Hockey League from 2008-2012.  (Wheeling Nailers, Milwaukee Admirals, Okloahoma City Barons & Rochester Americans) Lord missed the entire 2011-12 season due to injury returned the following year playing one season in Germany with SC Riessersee before signing with the British Elite Ice Hockey League Cardiff Devils in 2013.

Lord played two years in Vernon from 2002-2004.  The Burnaby Bulldogs traded Lord to Vernon for defenceman Steve Jordan in August 2002. In 116 regular season games with the Vipers Lord collected (22-goals-50-assists-78-points).

Andrew Lord's Player/Coaching Profile:

Andrew Lord - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

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