Travis Green
Travis Vernon Green ( born December 20, 1970 in Castlegar, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active from 1992 to 2007 included for the New York Islanders, Phoenix Coyotes, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim has played in the National Hockey League.
Career
As a player
Travis Green began his career as a hockey player with the Spokane Chiefs, where he was active from 1986 to 1990 in the Canadian Western Hockey League. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1989, he was selected in the second round by 23 position of the New York Islanders. After the attacker one year at the Medicine Hat Tigers and two years with the Capital District Islanders - the former farm team of the New York Islanders - had played, he was inducted into the Islanders 1992/93 season in the first team of New York. He played 61 games in the National Hockey League, where he scored 25 points scorer. In the following season Green was more ice age, completed 83 NHL games and reached 40 points. In the following years he belonged to the permanent staff of the Islanders and improved significantly. In the seasons 1995/96 and 1996/ 97, he reached 70, respectively 64 points in the regular season.
However, in the following year, he began to build up and was made with Doug Houda and Tony Tuzzolino for Joe Sacco, Jean -Jacques Daigneault and Mark Janssens to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. There, he scored in 105 games a total of 47 points. He joined in 1999 as an exchange for Oleg Twerdowski to the Phoenix Coyotes. In Phoenix he was unable to repeat the form of earlier years and after two years the management transferred him together with Robert Reichel and Craig Mills for Daniil Markov to the Toronto Maple Leafs continue. While he was engaged primarily in providing good performance in the 2001/ 02 season and the team reached the play-offs, get him in the following season only 24 points. For the 2003/ 04 season, Green ran for the Boston Bruins on the ice. He could not find his form he had shown in New York. After the season 2005/ 06, which he had finished with Boston, not extended those responsible his contract and he was a so-called free agent.
Travis Green signed again after a contract with the Ducks, whom he had already consulted 1998-1999. After only seven NHL games and two points, the Ducks scorer Travis Green sat on the waiver list. He was engaged by the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he completed 24 games and still not a single point scorer collected. At season's end, the Leafs offered him a new contract and he remained without a club until he found a new employer in November 2007, when it took the Swiss ice hockey club EV train under contract. In 29 games he scored twenty points with a good season in the National League A. Following the 2007/ 08 season, he finished his career.
At international level, Green represented his native Canada at the World Championships in 1996, 1997 and 1998. After winning with maple leaves 1996, the silver medal, the gold medal was won in the following year. Overall, the striker played 25 World Cup matches in which he scored eight goals and twelve assists.
As a coach
For the 2010/11 season Green was engaged as assistant coach of the Portland Winter Hawks. In the course of the season 2012/13 he served at times due to the suspension of Mike Johnston as head coach of the Winter Hawks. For the 2013/14 season, the Canadian was appointed head coach of the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League.