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presents BEHIND

THE BENCH

An Interview with Joel Trottier

By Molly Kett
for the Cornwall Nationals (part did but I didn’t love what I did, so
of the FHL or the Federal Hockey I kind of came back home and got
orty-year-old Joel Trottier from
FAlexandria Ontario has been League). The team’s coach, though, involved with minor hockey and
was offered a job that he couldn’t coaching kids and then basically
involved with hockey for most of
his life. It’s clearly his passion and refuse halfway through the season. they asked me if I wanted to coach
This is where Trottier stepped in, last year and I said no, I want to
recently in the past year he’s moved
from player to coach. taking over the head coaching play. They thought I was crazy.”
position.
Trottier has played professional He got involved with coaching,
hockey for about thirteen years. “I enjoyed it so much that I because he felt it was time to pay
applied for it again this year and it forward.
“I got drafted by the NHL to the they gave it to me,” says Trottier.
Boston Bruins in 1997, I played “The knowledge that I have right
my junior hockey in Ottawa for What’s kept Trottier involved all now and all the stuff and where
of these years? I’ve been and what I’ve been
the Ottawa 67’s then I signed the
3 year deal with Boston so I ended “It’s my passion – it’s what I love through and not been through,
up in Providence Road Island in to do. I’ve done the 9 to 5 and all it’s just kind of a nice thing that I
can give back,” says Trottier. “I’m
the American Hockey League,” that stuff but I’m always getting
says Trottier. “Then I ended up in pulled back towards my passion. Photo Credit: Creative Images passionate and I want guys to
succeed and I want them to move
Greenville South Carolina where It doesn’t even feel like a job even
I stayed for the last 17 years and though I’m working 13 to 15 hours places, but he kept coming back to up, it just makes sense to me.”
I just moved back. That’s kind of a day,” says Trottier. “It just feels the sport he knows and loves. In terms of his coaching
why I wanted to get back involved right to me, it’s what I know and “I started working as a Budweiser philosophy, it’s more than just
in the whole thing.” it’s what I love.” sales rep and from there I went to a about what happens on the ice.

Last year, Trottier played half the When Trottier retired at 31, he couple of other companies as a sales
season as a player at 39-years-old started working at a few various rep,” says Trottier. “I liked what I Continued on page 11

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