The Edmonton Journal describes how the last Phoenix Coyotes' player off the ice at Rexall Place on Tuesday was the 36-year-old captain Shane Doan.
"You're just like Smytty (Ryan Smyth) … can't get him off either, and he's 37," somebody said.
Doan, who will be digging in for the Coyotes against the Oilers on Wednesday night with ninth-place Phoenix one point up on the home team and the clock ticking on a playoff spot for both desperate clubs, offered up an aw-shucks shrug.
"Yeah, this is like coming home. Edmonton's my home," said Doan, who grew up on a ranch a couple of hours away in Halkirk, down by Stettler.
Doan was at Rexall Place a few times while growing up. He never got down to the dressing room area for an autograph. He didn't know anybody to pull any strings.
"I'd get down by the glass though to watch the warm-ups," he said. "I was at the Oilers game where Steve Yzerman flipped the puck over Kevin Lowe's head for an empty-net goal. I was at the game where Neal Broten had a hat trick and I thought to myself, 'Wouldn't it be great if some day I got one of those in the NHL?"
Doan has only one hat trick, playing 1,160 games before scoring three goals against the New York Islanders in January 2012.
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