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
Playing the spoiler for other teams is not fun because you'd rather be playing to get yourself into the playoffs. But I guess it's making the best of a bad situation.
When we play as a team with five men, we're solid. It's when we get trying to do individual stuff that we really struggle.
We can't stress enough the specialty teams and how important they are. If you want to win in the league now you have to have a good power play and then that's going to make it a lot easier.
Those are huge moments that I'll always remember. And I'll never forget the last game we played there before moving to Phoenix. It was the loudest building I've ever been in for a sporting event ever. I couldn't hear what my teammates were saying.
Obviously you want to be on the team but there's at least 100 Canadian players that could easily be on that team. The group making the selections will have a tough decision on a lot of guys.
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.
We played the whole game in our zone and we can't afford to do that. This is a challenge to each one of us in this room to be better.
That was huge. Johnny's one of those guys that you really cheer for because he does so much for us every night.
When you get a chance to play with him you know it's going to be creative, it's going to be fun. Nothing is better than that when you play hockey.
We don't have any room to lose. Every loss for us is huge.
He has so much on his plate, we don't worry about his schedule.
We just haven't played with enough urgency when we've played them.
He's a big man. You never want to be caught in his tracks.
He's a fiery guy. The way he played is the way he coached, and you love that as a player to know that your coach is on your side and is into the game as much as you are.