Former Vancouver Canucks defenceman Doug Lidster returned to the team as a member of the coaching staff on Monday. Lidster, 52, joins the Canucks from the Texas Stars where he, alongside Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins, helped lead the team to the 2014 Calder Cup Championship. He served as an assistant coach with Texas since 2012. Prior to joining the Stars, he served as the assistant coach for the Canadian Womens National Hockey team from 2008-2010, where he helped guide Team Canada to the 2010 Olympic Gold Medal in Vancouver, as well as the 2009 4 Nations Cup Championship in Finland, the 2010 MLP Cup Championship in Germany and a silver medal at the 2009 IIHF World Womens Championship in Finland. Lidster was also an assistant coach for the Womens Team in 2003-04, helping them win gold at the 2004 IIHF World Womens Championship and silver at the 2003 4 Nations Cup. Lidster was the head coach of the Ontario Hockey Leagues Saginaw Spirit during 2004-05 and was the coaching director for the Victory Honda AAA hockey program in Plymouth, Michigan from 2005 to 2009. In 2002-03, Lidster was an assistant coach with Medicine Hat of the Western Hockey League. Prior to his coaching career, the native of Kamloops, British Columbia, was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the seventh round (133rd overall) of the 1980 NHL Entry Draft. Lidster made his National Hockey League debut with Vancouver during the 1983-84 season and went on to play sixteen seasons for the Canucks, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars. In 897 career games, he recorded 343 points and 679 penalty minutes. He played in a total of 80 Stanley Cup playoff games and he won two Stanley Cups, with the Rangers in 1994 and the Stars in 1999. Ray Bourque Jersey .com) - The Toronto Raptors are paying Rudy Gay a visit on Wednesday night when they head into the Sleep Train Arena to take on the Sacramento Kings. Cam Neely Jersey . - Regan Smith had the checkered flag in sight at Daytona a year ago and a freight train of cars in his rearview mirror. http://www.thebostonbruinshockey.com/phi...-hockey-jersey/. It was just time for him to make a big play. Nicolas Batum had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Wesley Matthews scored 18 points, and the Trail Blazers overcame poor-shooting nights by two of their best players in a 94-90 victory over the New York Knicks on Wednesday. Adam Oates Jersey . Chelsea took until the second half to trouble the leagues bottom team, but Schuerrle then ripped through the defence with ease at Craven Cottage to keep Jose Mourinhos side on track for the title. Bobby Orr Jersey .Do you have to be that close? Federer snapped at a TV cameraman hovering nearby as he received medical advice after losing a set on Wednesday.For Nadal and Sharapova, the nuisance was coming from the lowly-ranked qualifiers across the net.Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) - Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Sidney Rice suffered a season-ending torn ACL in Mondays 14-9 win over the St. Louis Rams, the team announced Tuesday. Rice is tied for the team lead in touchdown receptions (3) and ranks third among Seattle players in catches (15) and receiving yards (231). The South Carolina product has only played two full seasons in his seven-year NFL career due to an assortment of injuries. The 27-year-old missed the fiinal seven games of the 2011 season, his first with Seattle, with multiple concussions.dddddddddddd Hip surgery limited Rice to just six games the previous year, while then a member of the Minnesota Vikings. Seattle is expected to get back wide receiver Percy Harvin in the coming weeks, though it is unsure if he will play when Seattle hosts the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 9. Harvin has yet to play this season as he continues his recovery from hip surgery. ' ' '