Swamp Rabbits Name Ex Viper Lord New Head Coach:

The ECHL Greenville Swamp Rabbits have named former Vernon Vipers forward Andrew Lord new head coach.

Lord spent the past seven years with the British Elite Ice Hockey League Cardiff Devils as player, head coach & director of hockey operations. The Devils are a Welsh ice hockey team that play in the BEIHL. 

Former Vernon Lakers defenceman Todd Kelman has spent the past six seasons with the Devils as player, franchise owner & general manager.

After a scholarship to RPI (Rensselaer Poly Inst) Lord spent four years with four different teams in the ECHL & American Hockey League.  (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 Devils the following season.

Lord played two years in Vernon (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 Profile:

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=21398

This was posted on the ECHL website:

SWAMP RABBITS NAME ANDREW LORD AS HEAD COACH

19 Jun 2020

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Greenville Swamp Rabbits announced that Andrew Lord has been named head coach of the team, effective immediately. Lord, 35, joins the organization from the Cardiff Devils of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) in the United Kingdom, where he has spent the last six seasons as head coach of the organization.

Lord joins the Swamp Rabbits with an immense championship pedigree. He led the Devils to nine separate titles, including three Conference championships, two Challenge Cup championships, two League titles, and two Playoff championships. As the winningest coach in Devils history, he led the team to a 221-75-22 record across his six seasons as head coach.

Born in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Lord enjoyed a lengthy professional hockey career out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He spent 10 seasons in the pro ranks, totaling 462 games. He played three of his ten overall seasons in the ECHL as a member of the Wheeling Nailers, culminating in the 2010–11 season where he served as captain.

Lord climbed the hockey development ladder as far as the American Hockey League, where he suited up in 39 contests with the Rochester Americans, Milwaukee Admirals and Oklahoma City Barons. His best work as a pro was done in the EIHL, where he scored 173 points in 216 games, all with Cardiff.

Lord played junior hockey in the British Columbia HockeyLeague with the Vernon Vipers, where he won a BCHL championship in 2002, and was the team's MVP and most improved player the year after. He prided himself on his academics, as an honor roll regular in high school, Dean's List honoree at RPI, a three-time ECAC All-Academic, a two-time RPI scholar-athlete award winner, and in his senior season, was named a finalist for the ECAC Student-Athlete of the Year award. He also earned his MBA from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2016.