Vancouver Canucks name former NHLer Travis Green as the club’s new head coach
VANCOUVER — A chat towards the end of his playing career planted a seed in Travis Green’s mind.
The veteran centre had already thought about staying in hockey after retirement when a conversation with Paul Maurice, then his head coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs, really got him thinking.
“We were just talking one day and he gave me the advice: ‘You should be a coach,’” said Green. “It stuck with me.”
Some 10 years later, Green was introduced as the 19th head coach in Vancouver Canucks’ history on Wednesday, tasked with injecting youth and increasing scoring for a franchise that has fallen on hard times.