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
It was difficult but I always said a lot of the difficult times are what shape you. You grow from it and work through it.
It's important for both sides to take a little time to reassess. Obviously the process at this point hasn't worked and we'll step back and have a look back at how we can move this thing forward. To get right back at it and start firing proposals, I'm not sure is the right way to do it. To reflect, to decide which way to go, I think is important. At the appropriate time, you know, there'll be discussion and we'll get back to it.
It's important for both sides to take a little time to reassess,
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,
For whatever reason early in the year we felt we could get away with not playing a complete game and there were nights we got out competed and we made a lot of mistakes.
It was his decision. We want to make sure everyone is comfortable with what happened. We want to make sure we don't have anybody that is unhappy or questioning the process.
I don't know if the reaction played a large role in the outcome. We knew it was going to be like this. It was no secret.
I definitely let up and gave him the heads up I was coming,
If you take away Oates you take away everyone on the ice, ... But it's hard because he's so aware.
In February, we grinded for days, days on end,
Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.
I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.
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.