Things You Didn't Know About Dan Lambert

• Lambert still holds the Swift Current Broncos club record for points by a defenceman in a season. Lambert had 102 points in 1988-89.
• Lambert's brother-in-law is former Western Hockey League forward Landis Chaulk. Chaulk played three seasons in the WHL with the Calgary Wrangers and Lethbridge Hurricanes in the early 80's. Chaulk was a 3rd round pick of the Vancouver Canucks in 1984.
• Lambert was picked in the 6th round of the 1989 NHL draft by the Quebec Nordiques. That year the Nordiques made Mats Sundin the first pick overall.
• Lambert was picked in the 6th round, 7 players before the Vancouver Canucks selected Pavel Bure.
• Lambert had 66 points as a 16 year-old defenceman with the Swift Current Broncos in 1986-87.
• Lambert was not on the bus that crashed, claiming the lives of four Swift Current Broncos teammate in the winter of 1986. Lambert was at an all-star game with Broncos trainer Gord Hahn in Winnipeg at the time of the crash.
• Lambert played just 29 NHL games with the Quebec Nordiques before he was traded to the Winnipeg Jets for tough guy Shaun Cronin.
• Lambert played for Canada at 1989 World Junior Hockey Championships in Alaska. Canada finished in 4th place.
• Lambert played high school hockey in Warroad Minnesota before joining the Broncos as a 16 year-old.
• Lambert spends the off-season in Scottsdale Arizona with his wife Melanie (a Swift Current girl) and three daughters. Lambert speaks french fluently after growing up in St. Malo Manitoba.
• Lambert is a former teammate of Jeff Finley. The two were defense partners in Finley's last year in Europe.