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'll be focusing on rules changes that have been brought forth over the last year and a half. We understand certain changes have to be made, but we don't want knee-jerk solutions. We don't think the game is as bad on the ice as some people make it out to be. That's a side effect of our problems off the ice. But we do understand some changes have to be made.
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In the 70s, high oil prices were a shock... People woke up, but then they relaxed.
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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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The party would not accept the nomination if the candidate did not sign the nomination form.
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This time, coaches, managers and players can't cut us up and beat us up in front of the fans we're trying to sell the game to.
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We didn't feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet ... he was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon.
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This years audit findings show there is still significant work to be done to ensure that the process of appointment is widely seen as open, fair and free from interference.
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We're going to be hearing it from players and coaches,
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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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Fans needed to be entertained and our game wasn't that entertaining because coaches were good. Coaches knew how to instill left-wing locks, traps, and combined with holding and hooking and pushing the envelope as far as you could . . . coaches knew what you could get away with.
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We do not have to wait until September to elect a new vice-president.
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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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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.