Lampman’s Nigel Dube has been named the new head coach and general manager of the Lloydminster Bobcats of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.
Dube, 30, is the 25th head coach in the Bobcats’ history. Dube’s debut was scheduled for Wednesday at home against the Grande Prairie Storm.
“I am humbled and honoured to be joining the Bobcats’ organization,” Dube said in a release from the team. “I would like to thank the board for trusting in me to create the culture on and off the ice they are looking for. I am excited to be moving to Lloydminster and becoming part of a great hockey community.”
As a player, Dube was a 6’3”, 205 pound-defenceman who was very briefly an Estevan Bruin for two games in 2005-06 before heading west to play two seasons with the Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League. He then played two seasons with the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League, playing in the RBC Cup in 2008. He played four seasons with Minot State University in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, finishing his final season as the team’s captain.
After graduating from that program, Dube then spent four seasons as an assistant coach with the Minot Minotauros of the North American Hockey League. While in Minot, he established the One Foundation, a non-profit organization creating opportunities for youth in sport and he was recognized for his community involvement by Minot Public Schools and the Friends of Battle River School Division.
He came back to Canada last season to be a member of his old coach Boris Rybalka’s coaching staff with Camrose and was an associate coach this year when the Lloydminster job came up.
