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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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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We're just trying to make the game better. Our thought process is that we want to reward the offensive part of the game.
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We did not 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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He went way beyond the limits. He was going for the player's eye. He did damage to the guy's eye. That wasn't a punch, he was trying to grab the player's eye with his thumb - after he speared him first. And he's a repeat offender.
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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.