BY: Mark Malinowski


Status: Tampa Bay Lightning left winger.

Ht: 6-foot-4 Wt: 219 pounds

DOB: Dec. 1, 1979 In: Pittsburgh

First Hockey Memory: "I remember my dad (Greg) played so we always had hockey sticks around the house and around the locker room, I think all the hockey I remember (laughs). I guess one particular moment would be getting hockey equipment for Christmas as a young kid."

Nicknames: "I've had a couple in junior: ‘Big Bird’ because I was tall and scrawny and I had a yellow shirt on all the time. In college I had ‘Pony’ and now I have ‘Bugsy’ after - my dad had the name - and then after Bugsy Malone. I think he was an old-time gangster back in the day."

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