Trevor Linden
Trevor Linden
Trevor John Linden, C.M., O.B.C.is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current president of hockey operations and alternate governor of the Vancouver Canucks. He spent 19 seasons in the National Hockey League, and played centre and right wing with four teams: the Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, and Washington Capitals. Before joining the NHL in 1988, Linden helped the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey Leaguewin consecutive Memorial Cup championships. In addition to appearing in...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth11 April 1970
CityMedicine Hat, Canada
Jason King has no gimmicks in his game. He's a real heady player and he's a good thinker. Jason is a mature guy, and he thinks the game well. He's got very good talent, really good hands and a knack to score. I was joking that I don't get called into the power-play meeting anymore, which is a good thing. I'm not complaining, I'm happy about us having depth like that. That's a good thing.
Regardless of whether you're a fan, a hockey player, a coach, a manager, a media writer, it feels good to be talking hockey again,
It's ridiculous. Players make mistakes on the ice. And by no means I'm saying it shouldn't be punished, there's no question. But everything that's being said is way over the top.
If you take away Oates you take away everyone on the ice, ... But it's hard because he's so aware.
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We'd rather have him on the ice for 22 minutes and not sitting in the box for 17.
If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.