{"id":438434,"date":"2023-06-23T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438434"},"modified":"2023-06-23T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:31:02","slug":"calgary-flames-hires-lambert-savard-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/calgary-flames-hires-lambert-savard-to-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames hires Lambert, Savard to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames added the necessary pieces to their coaching staff under manager Ryan Huska, as the franchise shared that they inked assistants Dan Lambert and Marc Savard today.<\/p>\n<p>Dan (53) started as a coach in 2009 as an assistant with the WHL&#8217;s Kelowna Rockets, where the head coach was Huska. Three seasons later, Lambert became the team&#8217;s head coach, and his biggest achievement was leading Kelowna to the 2015 WHL Championship but losing the final to Oshawa Generals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to spend some time with Ryan and coach with him again. Really excited about the opportunity to work in a Canadian market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newly named assistant coach Dan Lambert checks in to discuss joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Flames<\/a> and reuniting with Ryan Huska. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1PNNNjYhox\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1PNNNjYhox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Calgary Flames (@NHLFlames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlames\/status\/1672333706009387008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then he was hired as an assistant coach in Buffalo Sabres and again became head coach, this time of AHL&#8217;s Rochester Americans but was dismissed in 2017. After that, he worked in WHL&#8217;s Spokane Chiefs and returned to the National Hockey League in 2019 again as an assistant in the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dan worked as Ryan Huska&#8217;s assistant in Kelowna during 2009-14. We think that it will be very positive to get up to speed quicker and accomplish great things,&#8221; shared Calgary GM Craig Conroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames added the necessary pieces to their coaching staff under manager Ryan Huska, as the franchise shared that they inked assistants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438435,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16990,17844],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18445,20080,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Canadian NHL franchise filled out their coaching team.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438434"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438434"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}