Don Taylor
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Appearances Over Time
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They want to improve themselves.
They improve their fitness, improve their skating, improve the way they approach the game.
And it worked for them.
Same thing.
Ryan Johnson, unheralded.
He turned into a shot blocking forward and stayed in the National Hockey League for a long, long time because of his courage.
Again, an underdog.
And if Manny Malhotra ends up indeed being the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks,
Same sort of thing with him.
High draft choice with the New York Rangers.
Had a locker room stall next to Wayne Gretzky.
It was supposed to be, you know, Manny Maholter, maybe a top 10 scorer in the National Hockey League.
That didn't work out.
Did he mope and complain?
No, he adjusted himself.
He took on a different role, became a 200-foot hockey player.
Great face-off, a great center-arrangement face-off guy.
You know, he adjusted his game.
He understood that he had to do different things in order to stick around in the National Hockey League.
These are first-class people we're talking about.