Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell
Retired hockey defenceman who played 11 years in NHL with teams like the Los Angeles Kings. He later became the NHL's Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations.
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth28 January 1953
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We do not have to wait until September to elect a new vice-president.
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We're going to be hearing it from players and coaches,
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The wonderful thing is that you can pretty well say that while no two Bermudians are alike, they're quite house-proud and garden-proud. People really like to keep the old spit-and-polish going.
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As this poster makes abundantly clear, we've already consumed about half of the world's total endowment of regular conventional oil. This has provided most supply to-date and will dominate all supply far into the future. We are now entering the second half of the Oil Age, and face the relentless decline of production, imposed by nature.
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While all of the constituent groups will never reach complete agreement on what the changes should be, we felt it was our obligation to recommend a slate of changes that will succeed in doing one thing - entertaining our fans - both those in the arena and those watching on television.
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If a big call is made in the last 30 seconds or five minutes of a game, if there's a call made that keeps a team out of the playoffs or knocks them out of the first round, and it starts costing teams money, that'll be the litmus test,
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But this time, because of the lockout, we had the whole year to sink our teeth into it. We discussed it with players, coaches, refs and managers, and this was (the edict) to come down.
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But this is going to stay for a while. We can't get lax this time.
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Obviously there is leeway within the rules and it's up to the officials' judgment, but the key areas are in front of the net and in the corners.
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One of the impediments to the enforcement of hooking and holding and interference was the diving, ... Or the embellishment of those calls to draw a penalty.
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Least of all Bruce Golding himself, who is the most indecisiveness leader any party can have. Is not me say so, is the former leader of the JLP (Edward Seaga).
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Mr. Avery's comments showed a complete lack of respect for all those associated with our game, most importantly, his fellow players, ... Mr. Avery has besmirched the reputation of all NHL players, coaches, general managers and owners who, collectively, have been successful in providing a more entertaining game for our fans.
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No deal was made with anybody. Not by me. We took a week because there were no more games for Detroit and we had the opportunity to assess the injury inflicted upon the Calgary player, who did not play the rest of the playoffs.
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I find it quite disturbing and also surprising that in the legal world of all places redress is denied.