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Coaches Profile
Malcolm Cameron
Long Beach Ice Dogs

September 25, 2004
This is the ninth in a series of biographies on the 28 men behind the benches of the ECHL in 2004-05.

Sunday: Perry Florio of Pee Dee

The ECHL recently asked each of its 28 coaches a series of six questions.

Here are the answers given by Long Beach’s Malcolm Cameron.

Best player you have coached?

Nick Bootland

Best player who you played with during your career?

Norm Batherson

What is the toughest ECHL rink for a visiting team?

Toledo Sports Arena

If you weren’t a hockey coach, what profession would you like to try?

Sports agent

Who is the person you admire most?

Wayne Gretzky

Your ideal golf foursome would have?

Wayne Gretzky, Mike Weir and Ron MacLean

Malcolm Cameron is in his first season as head coach and director of hockey operations for Long Beach. Cameron returns to the ECHL after spending 2003-04 in the United Hockey League and Central Hockey League. The 34-year-old Cameron began 2003-04 as head coach of Columbus of the United Hockey League. Prior to suspending operations in January, Columbus was in first place and Cameron was selected as a coach for the UHL All-Star Game. Cameron spent the final two months of the regular season as head coach of Corpus Christi in the Central Hockey League. In his first head coaching job in 2002-03, Cameron helped Cincinnati finish 36-29-7 and advance to the Northern Conference Finals where it lost by a goal in Game 7 to Kelly Cup Champion Atlantic City. Finishing third in the Northwest Division with 79 points, Cincinnati upset Peoria (103 points) and Toledo (104 points) to reach the Northern Conference Finals. Cameron spent the 2001-02 season as an assistant coach with the Columbia Inferno. He has also worked as an assistant coach with the Western Professional Hockey League's Lubbock Cotton Kings and the Acadia University Axemen in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. In his playing days, Cameron's career spanned five seasons, two of which were spent in the ECHL with the former Huntington Blizzard (1993-94) and the Johnstown Chiefs (1995-96). He also skated in the former Colonial Hockey League with the Saginaw Wheels (1994-95), the Central Hockey League with the San Antonio Iguanas (1994-95), the Fort Worth Fire (1995-97), and the Nashville Nighthawks (1996-97), and in the WPHL with the Amarillo Rattlers (1997-98) and El Paso Buzzards (1997-98). The 33-year old native of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, along with his wife, Heather, and toddler son, Brett, live in Cincinnati.

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