Playing career

Green started out with the Spokane Chiefs in the Western Hockey League (WHL), playing with them from 1986-1989. In the middle of the 89-90 year, he was traded to the Medicine Hat Tigers where he completed his junior career. While with the Chiefs, he scored 137 goals and made 165 assists, for a total of 302 points. He added 15 goals, 24 assists, and 39 points to this while with the Tigers to fill out his junior career.

Green was drafted 23rd overall by the New York Islanders in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft. As of the last completed NHL season, Green played 857 career games, scoring 182 goals and 249 assists for 431 points. His best season statistically was the 1995-96 season, when he scored 25 goals and 45 assists for 70 points in only 69 games. On June 30, 2006 the final year of his contract with the Boston Bruins was bought out. On August 10, 2006 he was signed by the Anaheim Ducks, the team he had previously played for from 1998 to 1999. However he played only seven games in his return to the Ducks, before being claimed on waivers by another former team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, in January 2007.

Green was a member of Team Canada at the 2007 Spengler Cup.

Coaching career

After finishing his playing career Green was hired by the Portland Winterhawks as an assistant coach and assistant general manager in 2008. Midway through the 2012-13 season head coach and general manager Mike Johnston was suspended by the WHL for player-benefit violations. Green took over as interim head coach, finishing with a 37-8-0-2 record in the final 47 games. In the playoffs Portland advanced to the final where they defeated the Edmonton Oil Kings in six games to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup as WHL champions and secure a berth in the Memorial Cup tournament. In the tournament Portland lost in the final to the Halifax Mooseheads.

In the off-season Green was hired by the American Hockey League's (AHL) Utica Comets to be their head coach.

Personal

Green also has won over $345,000 in poker tournaments, including events at the World Series of Poker. He is married to Sheree Green and has a daughter, Jordyn, and two sons, Blake and Brody.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1986-87	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		64	8	17	25	27		3	0	0	0	0
1987-88	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		72	33	53	86	42		15	10	10	20	13
1988-89	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		72	51	51	102	79		—	—	—	—	—
1989-90	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		50	45	44	89	90		—	—	—	—	—
1989-90	Medicine Hat Tigers	WHL		25	15	24	39	19		3	0	0	0	2
1990-91	Capital District Islanders	AHL		73	21	34	55	26		—	—	—	—	—
1991-92	Capital District Islanders	AHL		71	23	27	50	10		7	0	4	4	21
1992-93	Capital District Islanders	AHL		20	12	11	23	39		—	—	—	—	—
1992-93	New York Islanders	NHL		61	7	18	25	43		12	3	1	4	6
1993-94	New York Islanders	NHL		83	18	22	40	44		4	0	0	0	2
1994-95	New York Islanders	NHL		42	5	7	12	25		—	—	—	—	—
1995-96	New York Islanders	NHL		69	25	45	70	42		—	—	—	—	—
1996-97	New York Islanders	NHL		79	23	41	64	38		—	—	—	—	—
1997-98	New York Islanders	NHL		54	14	12	26	66		—	—	—	—	—
1997-98	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		22	5	11	16	16		—	—	—	—	—
1998-99	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		79	13	17	30	81		4	0	1	1	4
1999-00	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		78	25	21	46	45		5	1	2	3	2
2000-01	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		69	13	15	28	63		—	—	—	—	—
2001-02	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		82	11	23	34	61		20	3	6	9	34
2002-03	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		75	12	12	24	67		4	2	1	3	4
2003-04	Boston Bruins	NHL		64	11	5	16	67		7	0	1	1	8
2005-06	Boston Bruins	NHL		82	10	12	22	79		—	—	—	—	—
2006-07	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		7	1	1	2	6		—	—	—	—	—
2006-07	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		24	0	0	0	21		—	—	—	—	—
2007-08	EV Zug	NLA		29	9	11	20	126		6	0	3	3	12
NHL totals				970	193	262	455	764		56	10	11	21	60

[ Source: Wikipedia ]