Former WHL Player and Coach Reunites with Clouston in Ottawa

Brad Lauer was named Assistant Coach of the Ottawa Senators yesterday and is reunited with head coach Cory Clouston.  Lauer, who played 30 games with the Senators in the 1993-94 season and, after his playing days were done, got his start into coaching as Clouston’s assistant with the Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League. During five seasons together there (2002-03 to 2006-07), they produced a .638 winning percentage, including two 100-plus point seasons and a trio of 40-win campaigns.

For the past two seasons, Lauer has been assistant coach under Lane Lambert with the American Hockey League’s Milwaukee Admirals.

The New York Islanders’ second-round pick in the 1985 draft, Lauer played three seasons in the Western Hockey League with the Regina Pats beginning in 1983-84. He completed his 16-year pro playing career at the end of the 2001-02 season and posted 111 points on 44 goals and 67 assists in 323 career NHL games with the New York Islanders, Senators, Chicago Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins.