Todd Bertuzzi
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"Todd Bertuzzi" is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger (ice hockey)/winger who is currently an Unrestricted Free Agent#Unrestricted free agent/unrestricted free agent of the National Hockey League (NHL). Known as a power forward (ice hockey)/power forward, he has additionally played in the NHL for the New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames and Detroit Red Wings.

Selected 23rd overall by the New York Islanders in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, he played at the junior ice hockey/junior level with the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for four seasons. In 1995–96 NHL season/1995–96, he played his rookie season with the Islanders. After two-and-a-half seasons with the Islanders, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks. Bertuzzi enjoyed the most successful seasons of his career with the Canucks—his longest tenured team in the NHL—including NHL All-Star Team/NHL First Team All-Star honours in 2002–03 NHL season/2003.

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I got enough to worry about with my own team.

Obviously knowing that they've got a little bit of stuff going on ... we wanted to make sure we jumped on them quick and tried to put it away early.

[After three years in the league the brothers have averaged a combined 65 points per season, but many observers think this will be their breakout year.] I expect nothing but outstanding play from them, ... Daniel's a 30-goal scorer and Hank's a 60-point guy.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Canucks fans and the city of Vancouver for all of your kind wishes, ... Your support, coupled with that of my teammates, Canucks ownership, management and staff and my agent Pat Morris have been a great help in these very difficult times.

Obviously there is still something there from what happened way in the past but it's not something that I think about.

That was a lot of fun and that's something we need to start getting into this dressing room a little more. When you go through bad spells, which obviously is going to happen in a season, you have to be able to shake it off, laugh about it and move forward. When this team is relaxed and confident, that's when we play our best.

It wasn't the prettiest of games, but it was a game we had to be in in order to learn how to win.

We got lazy in the end and it almost bit us in the [behind]. We've got to smarten up in situations like that. In this day and age in this league, teams can come back.

It was dumb on our part, ... We fell asleep on the bench and they got a couple of chances and capitalized and that's something we've got to address.