"Tyson Scott Nash" is a former ice hockey Winger (ice hockey)/left winger. He announced his retirement on September 11, 2008. He last played for the Nippon Paper Cranes in Japan during the 2007–08 season.

Nash spent his first five seasons in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues, primarily in the role of a pest (hockey)/pest, specializing in drawing penalties from members of opposing teams. He spent the next two seasons with the Phoenix Coyotes. He was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs from the Coyotes for Mikael Tellqvist and a 4th round draft pick on November 28, 2006.

On November 22, 2007, he signed with the Nippon Paper Cranes in Japan. The Cranes finished the season in second place, behind the Oji Eagles.

He played his junior career with the Kamloops Blazers where he was part of the team which won three Memorial Cups. He is one of only three players to have won three Memorial Cups with the same team (Ryan Huska and Darcy Tucker are the others).

Nash was hired as the Phoenix Coyotes' TV analyst alongside Matt McConnell following his retirement.

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I can't believe I've bounced back so quickly. . . . But we want to take it easy. We don't want to go crazy.

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Everybody wants to score goals and everybody should score a few goals a year so I'm definitely not happy with it, and, yeah, it's been a little frustrating. I'm definitely not here to score goals, but everybody's got to contribute something .

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Yeah, I feel sore, but it's a good sore.

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You look on just about every team nowadays, they seem to have one guy like that. It can really help if a team comes out flat or there's a line that's not playing well.

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When you don't play, you don't feel like you are part of the team. It was nice to be out there with the boys working hard and laughing and joking.

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Now it's almost like I'm snake-bitten, if there is such a thing for a non-goal scorer.

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