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33-487: Yvon Lambert was named the team's head coach for the 1984–85 QMJHL season . He resigned on March 8, 1985, with five games remaining, because he said "it was too difficult for him to motivate amateur-level players". Jean Bégin was named head coach for the final five games of the season and the playoffs. The team that season included future NHL players Claude Lemieux , Jimmy Carson , Gerry Fleming , Shane MacEachern , and Everett Sanipass . Bégin led Verdun to three wins in

66-606: A 22–3–1 season, and the young program was well on its way to becoming a Division II powerhouse. The 1977–78 season started off well for the Skating Dutchmen, as Harkness guided the team to a 4–1–1 record in their first 6 games. However, in late December, Harkness abruptly quit the team, and news began to leak that he had been having disputes with Union administration for quite some time. It was alleged that Harkness had violated NESCAC recruiting rules (and then lied to Union College President Thomas Bonner about it), but there

99-547: A Canadian ice hockey winger born in the 1950s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ned Harkness Nevin Donald Harkness (September 19, 1919 – September 19, 2008) was an NCAA head coach of ice hockey and lacrosse at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University and of ice hockey at Union College . Harkness was also head coach of the Detroit Red Wings and later

132-548: A naturalized American citizen in 1949 ). He graduated from the Worcester Academy in 1939. In 1941, Harkness became a volunteer coach for a group of students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy who were interested in forming a lacrosse club. Through that year and the next, the team practiced and scrimmaged with Harkness leading the way, eventually playing games against four varsity programs. World War II led to

165-484: A new program from the ground up. Achilles Center was built, and Harkness was made rink manager and the team's coach. The school began play in NCAA Division III and with Harkness behind the bench, the team was instantly successful. The Skating Dutchmen finished with a 20–4–1 record in the 1975–76 season, their first since the 1940s, with a roster full of freshmen. Harkness followed up this initial success with

198-665: Is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward . Lambert was born in Drummondville , Quebec . Although drafted in 1970 by the Detroit Red Wings , Lambert started his National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1973. He spent nine years in Montreal before being traded to the Buffalo Sabres . Lambert is best known for scoring the winning goal in overtime of game seven of

231-454: The 1954 NCAA Championship . Harkness was the head coach of the men's ice hockey team at Rensselaer beginning with the 1949–1950 season through the 1962–1963 season. He led the team to a record of 176–96–7 and NCAA tournament appearances in 1953 , 1954 , and 1961 , winning the NCAA title in 1954. His 1951–52 team averaged 8.28 goals per game, an NCAA record which stands today. He would leave

264-830: The 1985 Memorial Cup were played in Drummondville , Quebec. Verdun lost 6-3 to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in game one, lost 5-3 to the Prince Albert Raiders in game two, and lost 5-1 to the Shawinigan Cataractes in game three. Two seasons later the Junior Canadiens began three consecutive seasons placing last in the QMJHL. The team was sold after the 1988–89 season, becoming the Saint-Hyacinthe Laser . Claude Lemieux

297-600: The Bell Centre in Montreal to encourage them. Lambert also encourages and helps "Hockey Garage Leagues" to organize games internationally. He has helped with this hockey international company over 28,000 players to play internationally. He has also helped teams by coaching them. He can still be found volunteering his time and efforts as a coach for the Ancien Canadiens. (Montreal Canadiens Old Timers hockey team). This biographical article relating to

330-685: The Houston Field House was completed in late 1949, the team began play under Harkness in January 1950. After leading the team to a 4–6–0 record in its first year, Harkness helped form the Tri-State League, which would become the first attempt at league organization of college hockey in the east. Later that year, Harkness devised the RPI Holiday Tournament, which has taken place every year since 1951, making it

363-558: The Port Huron Flags since every young player at time knew they would probably have a chance to replace these players. After a great season with Port Huron, Ned Harkness , the Red Wings coach, told Lambert that if he stayed in form he would have a good chance to be given another chance with the Red Wings the following season. In August 1972, Lambert was surprised by reading in the newspaper that his services were being kept by

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396-689: The 1968–69 campaign, the only regular season loss coming from Rensselaer. Cornell defeated Michigan Tech in the NCAA Tournament before dropping the championship game to the Denver Pioneers. Harkness and his Cornell team achieved a perfect record, undefeated and untied, in 1970. Cornell capped the 29–0–0 season with victories over Wisconsin and Clarkson University in the NCAA Tournament , bringing Harkness his third and final NCAA championship, and Cornell's second title in four years. While coaching ice hockey at Cornell, his overall record

429-663: The 1979 Stanley Cup Semi-Finals against the Boston Bruins , the culmination of an exciting game most memorable for a career-damaging coaching error by Don Cherry with two minutes left in regulation. Lambert won four consecutive Stanley Cups with the Canadiens from 1976 to 1979. Lambert played his final two seasons with the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL), winning

462-705: The 1982-83 Calder Cup . He retired after the Americans lost to the Maine Mariners in Game 5 of the 1983-84 Calder Cup Finals. After being traded to Montreal, a year after being drafted by the Red Wings, Lambert thought he would never make it to the NHL since the Canadiens had a young and talented squad. It was his desire to get back to Detroit, which had an aging squad at the time, including Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio , that made him push himself to perform well with

495-588: The Canadiens. He stated in French, "During the first day at the camp, at the forum of Montreal , there was 80 players and I find myself next to Henri Richard , Yvan Cournoyer , Serge Savard , Jacques Lemaire , and Larry Robinson . Whew! I felt so small". Before a playoff game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins, on May 6, 2014, Lambert met with thousands of fans in front of

528-588: The NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history, with Harkness' second NCAA championship as the Big Red defeated North Dakota and Boston University for the title. The team's success continued for the remainder of Harkness' time at Cornell. The next season, Cornell again went to the NCAA Tournament, again with 27 victories, but lost to North Dakota in the semifinals before defeating Boston College for third place . Harkness again won 27 times in

561-492: The National Hockey League. Ned Harkness was hired by the Detroit Red Wings to become head coach on May 22, 1970. He replaced Sid Abel , an interim replacement for Bill Gadsby . Harkness was 12–22–4 with the Red Wings before Doug Barkley was hired to complete the season. Harkness was promoted to general manager of the Red Wings in January 1971, where he remained for three seasons. Despite his success in

594-774: The United States, would tie the British All-Star team before 60,000 at Wembley Stadium while amassing an 8–0–1 record in nine games played in England. In 1952, while continuing to establish a serious hockey program, he coached the lacrosse team to an undefeated record and the national lacrosse championship, winning the Wingate Memorial Trophy , which predated the NCAA lacrosse title . Harkness' combined lacrosse coaching record, both at RPI and Cornell,

627-487: The chance to play for the legendary Harkness and his plan to jump the team to Division I. Upon hearing of their coach's decision to leave, the entire varsity roster of the Skating Dutchmen refused to play the remainder of the season in a show of solidarity with their coach. With a team made up of Junior Varsity and intramural players coached by an inexperienced coach, the Skating Dutchmen would lose their next game 19–1 and go on to lose every game remaining on their schedule. In

660-526: The college ranks, Harkness was not a successful coach or general manager in the National Hockey League . A veteran and aging Detroit roster had resisted adapting to Harkness's more progressive methods. Things that are commonplace and obvious today, such as no cigar smoking in the locker room between periods and shorter ice shifts caused a mutiny by the veteran players. Detroit fans still remember this era as "Darkness with Harkness", one of

693-534: The disbanding of the team, but when the school formally established a varsity lacrosse program in 1945, Harkness was asked to become its first coach. Within a year of its establishment, Ned Harkness had Rensselaer ranked among the best lacrosse teams in the country. In 1948, coming off an undefeated season of collegiate play, he took the team to the Olympic Games in London, England, where the team, representing

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726-462: The ice under Harkness' guidance. In 1953, the team won its first official Tri-State championship and was invited to the NCAA Tournament for the first time, winning third place . The next season, Harkness guided RPI to an 18–5 overall record, a second straight Tri-State title, and a second straight trip to Colorado Springs for the NCAA Tournament. Though heavy underdogs, Harkness and his team upset traditional powerhouses Michigan and Minnesota to win

759-416: The lacrosse team in 1958 to focus on RPI hockey after leading the team to a record of 112–26–2 in 14 years, and left RPI hockey in 1963 after three NCAA appearances, two Tri-State titles, one NCAA championship, and a record of 176–96–7 over 14 years. In 1963, Harkness moved to Cornell University , where he replaced Paul Patten as the head coach of the hockey team. In his first year at Cornell, Harkness helped

792-419: The oldest in-season tournament in the nation. Harkness coached both hockey and lacrosse at Rensselaer throughout most of the 1950s and continued coaching hockey into the 1960s. That same year, Harkness led the hockey team to its first Tri-State title with a 15–3 overall record, though the title was later revoked when the team was found to be using an ineligible player. The team continued to improve rapidly on

825-776: The remainder of the regular season, and a first-place finish in the Lebel Division. In the playoffs, Verdun defeated the Hull Olympiques four games to one in the first round, then defeated the Shawinigan Cataractes four games to one in the second round, and defeated the Chicoutimi Saguenéens in four consecutive games to win the President's Cup . Claude Lemieux led the league in playoffs scoring 23 goals, and 40 points. Verdun's games in

858-707: The spring of 1978, Harkness was a finalist for the North Dakota head coach position that was ultimately given to John "Gino" Gasparini . Harkness later served as director of the Glens Falls Civic Center and president of the New York Olympic Regional Development Authority , which ran the facilities in Lake Placid, New York , which hosted the 1980 Olympic Winter Games . He was responsible for

891-404: The team to a 12–10–1 record in the fledgling ECAC league. His second season saw the team record improve to 19 wins. His stature rose to legendary status with the recruitment of Ken Dryden . In 1966, Harkness bested the previous year's total by winning 22 games while losing 5 times. The following season, Ken Dryden came to Ithaca to play in net. The 1967 record was 27–1–1. Cornell participated in

924-561: The worst periods in franchise history. After his departure from the NHL, Harkness set his sights on college hockey once again. He returned to New York's Capital District , where he had lived in Glens Falls and coached the RPI Engineers. Union College had fielded a hockey team in the early 20th century but had been unable to bounce back from the loss of the program during World War II. Harkness went to Union and helped create

957-546: Was 147 wins, 27 losses and 2 ties, in 16 seasons for a .841 winning percentages, one of the best performances by any college lacrosse coach. Harkness was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2001. Following World War II, RPI President Livingston Houston began looking for a way to re-establish hockey at the Institute, and Harkness was willing to lend his assistance. After the construction of

990-460: Was 163–27–2 over seven seasons, and his teams won 2 NCAA titles , one in 1967 and one in 1970. Amidst his success at Lynah Rink , Harkness returned to coaching lacrosse, coaching the Cornell lacrosse team to the 1966 and 1968 Ivy League titles, and reaching an astounding 35–1 record during his three years at the helm. Following the 1970 regular season, Harkness left Cornell on top to coach in

1023-754: Was awarded the Guy Lafleur Trophy as the most valuable player in the 1985 playoffs. Jimmy Carson won two awards during the 1984–85 season. He won the Michel Bergeron Trophy as the offensive rookie-of-the-year, and the Michael Bossy Trophy as the best professional prospect. Carson won the Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy as most sportsmanlike player during the 1985–86 season. Regular season and playoffs results: Yvon Lambert Yvon Pierre Lambert (born May 20, 1950)

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1056-825: Was the team's general manager. He was inducted into the Lake Placid Hall of Fame in 1993, the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2001 and into the RPI Hockey Ring of Honor in 2007. He is also a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota , having been inducted in 1994. Harkness grew up in Ontario, but before coming of age, his family moved to the Glens Falls, New York , region north of Albany (Harkness became

1089-616: Was widespread suspicion on campus that admission standards for hockey players had been compromised. Many of the Union players had come in as freshmen well into their twenties, having played in Canadian Senior A teams (much like Harkness's Cornell protégé Dick Bertrand , a Toronto cop who joined Harkness's squad in his late twenties, was a captain of the undefeated team, and then succeeded Harkness as Cornell coach, continuing in that capacity for 11 seasons); others were NHL draftees drawn by

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