25 Facts About Lou Lamoriello

Lou Lamoriello is the former general manager of both the New Jersey Devils and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

In 2009, Lou Lamoriello was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders category, while in 2012, Lou Lamoriello was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

Lou Lamoriello received varsity letters in baseball and hockey and served each team as captain during his senior year.

Lou Lamoriello played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Harwich Mariners, Orleans Cardinals, and in 1964 as the player-manager of the Bourne Canalmen.

Lou Lamoriello was a math teacher at Johnston Senior High School in Johnston, Rhode Island, for several years ending in the early 1970s.

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Lou Lamoriello became head coach of the Providence College Friars men's ice hockey team in 1968 and became athletic director in July 1982.

In July 1983, Lou Lamoriello joined his fellow athletic directors at Boston College, Boston University, the University of New Hampshire and Northeastern University in forming the Hockey East Association.

Lou Lamoriello helped produce an interlocking schedule agreement with the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and negotiate the first television package in college ice hockey.

Lou Lamoriello had never played, coached or managed in the NHL, and was virtually unknown outside the American college hockey community.

Lou Lamoriello dropped the chairmanship of the Devils and resigned his posts on the Nets after Jeffrey Vanderbeek bought the Devils from YankeeNets in 2004.

In 1992, Lou Lamoriello was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the United States.

Lou Lamoriello served as general manager for Team USA in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Lou Lamoriello is well known in NHL circles for his hard-nosed approach to contract negotiations.

Lou Lamoriello nearly traded Ken Daneyko, the Devils' all-time leader in games played, in 1989.

Lou Lamoriello, backed by Scouting Director David Conte, is known as a master drafter, showing consistent shrewdness in identifying and signing top talent that other teams were passing over.

Lou Lamoriello said he studied the game for a long time before starting to manage at the NHL level.

Lou Lamoriello has been lauded by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman for his key role in bringing Soviet hockey stars, such as Viacheslav Fetisov and Sergei Starikov, to the NHL in the late 1980s.

Lou Lamoriello has fostered a "unique corporate culture" that has encouraged player loyalty.

When Lou Lamoriello is asked the key to his success, he says it has been his systematic approach to player development.

Lou Lamoriello worked under Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan, who was the first player Lou Lamoriello drafted as an NHL general manager in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft.

Shanahan stated that Lou Lamoriello's contract called for him to serve as general manager for three years before making a transition to an advisory role.

However, Lou Lamoriello did not believe Julien had the team ready for the playoffs.

In 1980, Lou Lamoriello was inducted into the Providence College Athletic Hall of Fame.

Additionally, as a minority owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees, Lou Lamoriello has a World Series ring from the Yankees' 2009 World Series championship.

Lou Lamoriello has three adult children: Christopher, Heidi and Tim.

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