Shane Doan
Shane Doan
Shane Albert Doanis a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who serves as captain of the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League. He has played his entire career with the Coyotes franchise, joining the team in 1995 when they were the original Winnipeg Jets. He is the last remaining player currently active in the NHL from the original Winnipeg Jets. Shane Doan led the then Phoenix Coyotes in scoring from 2003 to 2011 consecutively. In December 2015 he became the...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth10 October 1976
CityHalkirk, Canada
He's an emotional guy. You can get under his skin and think maybe you can throw off his game. I think it works the opposite. I think it fires him up more, and he's got that fire that's pretty intense.
I don't think Wayne is classified with anyone else. There's historical, and then there's him.
He plays so physical, ... It's unbelievable how well he times his hits. You always want to get him and it's so hard to get him.
It's pretty nice. It's kind of the old style. Hockey has a lot of tradition so I think it's good to have kind of the old-school look.
It's a big thing we've been preaching pucks and people to the net and we finally got one to go in,
It's a big thing we've been preaching -- pucks and people to the net -- and we finally got one to go in,
It was huge, obviously. There's a lot of emotion in a home opener, and you want to come out controlled, work hard and stay disciplined enough, and we stayed with it.
It's encouraging that we're going in the right direction, but the goal is to make the playoffs. We're getting close.
The first ten minutes of the game we were down 3-0. That makes it hard for us and we got it back and we didn't get a win again.
It's disappointing. You have a chance at home to make a stand and we haven't done that.
It was nice to contribute in that game and being to play in that whole World Cup is something I'll never, ever forget. But they're going to pick the best team they think has the best chance to win and they've had a pretty good success of doing that at this point.
It's something that you deal with. We have good leadership in this room, so we'll be more than OK in that area. Something like this makes you realize that hockey isn't important in the grand scheme of things, and our thoughts and prayers are with the whole Gretzky family.
Everyone's excited about that, but then you add the fact that every day Wayne Gretzky is going to be our coach -that's pretty special.
Everyone's disappointed that they just don't get to be around him every day. His credentials and his character are very unique. He was fun to be around.