Dave Chambers is a Canadian ice hockey coach. After playing junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey Association,university hockey and with the early development of the Canadian National team, Chambers coached at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Guelph before landing a coaching job at Ohio State University for two seasons from 1970-72. He left Ohio State to coach at York University in his native Toronto. He is the winningest coach in Ohio State history by winning percentage and won the CCHA championship in 1972. At York University his teams won 3 division championships, 3 Ontario Championships and 1 Canadian championship.His university coaching record over 14 years was 334 wins 110 loses for a winning percentage of .750 and included 3 coach of the year awards. He later took a position behind the bench of the junior league Toronto Marlboros and won the Coach of the Year award for the OHL,1980. He was coach of the gold-medal winning Canadian team at the 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Moscow. Chambers served as an assistant coach with the Minnesota North Stars. He then was head coach of the Quebec Nordiques from 1990 to 1992. [More at Wikipedia]

May 7th, 1940 in Leaside (Age 83)