The Ontario Reign announced they have hired Andrew Lord as the team's new head coach.
Lord spent the 2024-25 season with the QMJHL's Halifax Mooseheads, after a 19-35-8-2 regular season record Lord led the team on a cinderella run to the QMJHL Finals where they lost in six games to the Quebec Remparts.
The 40-year-old spent 2020-24 as head coach, GM, and director of hockey operations with the Reign's ECHL affiliate Greenville Swamp Rabbits where he won the John Brophy Award as Coach of the Year in 2024.
In 288 games as head of the Swamp Rabbits Lord led the team to a 155-94-39 record.
Prior to his coaching career in North America Lord served as head coach of the EIHL's Cardiff Devils from 2014-20. Four of those seasons were as player/coach.
The West Vancouver, B.C., native was 2017 and 2018 EIHL Coach of the Year and led the Devils to two league titles and two playoff championships.
In his playing career Lord recorded seven points in 39 career AHL games with the Rochester Americans, Milwaukee Admirals, and Oklahoma City Barons. He also had 104 points in 165 career ECHL games.
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