The junior hockey star who by his own reckoning didn’t understand what it meant to be a good player. Travis Green the head coach would pull his hair out over Travis Green the 20-year-old. He remembered the suggestion by one of his coaches in Toronto, Paul Maurice, that he might make a good coach. But in this place where the Canucks now exist, Green seems to be the right man with the right touch. He might look back and be embarrassed by his early days as a player, but pride should be all he feels in his early days as an NHL coach.

Source: thestar November 10, 2017 21:56 UTC