Ottawa Senators coach Travis Green inducted into B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame
The Senators' head coach was recognized Saturday for his 970-game NHL career and success coaching the Portland Winterhawks to a 2013 championship.
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Ottawa Senators coach Travis Green was inducted into the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 12, alongside former NHLers Andrew Ladd and Josh Gorges, NHL official Malcolm Ashford, and broadcaster Daryl Reaugh.
Green, 55, grew up in Castlegar, a town of just over 8,000 residents in British Columbia's West Kootenay region, 25 kilometres from the Canada-U.S. border. He had two points per game in his final season of minor hockey before jumping to the Western Hockey League at age 18, posting 102 points for the Spokane Chiefs — enough to be selected 23rd overall in the 1989 NHL Draft by the New York Islanders.
Across 14 seasons, Green played 970 NHL games for five teams — the Islanders, Toronto Maple Leafs, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Phoenix Coyotes, and Boston Bruins — totalling 455 points (193 goals, 262 assists). After his playing career ended in 2008, he returned to the WHL to coach, eventually becoming general manager and head coach of the Portland Winterhawks. The team made the WHL Championship twice in three seasons under Green, winning the Ed Chynoweth Cup in 2013.
Green spent five seasons as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks starting in 2017, posting a 133-147-34 record and one playoff appearance before being fired 25 games into the 2021-22 season. After a brief stint as an assistant with the New Jersey Devils, he signed a four-year contract with the Senators in May 2024. Under Green, Ottawa made the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, though the team exited in the first round both times after falling behind 3-0.
"I don't know if I could put it into words," Green told the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame. "The magnitude of being honoured like this… I don't even know if it's still sunk in."
