Kyle McLaren
| Kyle McLaren | |||
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| Born |
June 18, 1977 Humboldt, SK, CAN |
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| Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||
| Weight | 230 lb (100 kg; 16 st 6 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for |
Boston Bruins San Jose Sharks |
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| National team |
 Canada
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| NHL Draft | 9th overall, 1995 Boston Bruins |
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| Playing career | 1995–2009 | ||
Kyle Edgar McLaren (born June 18, 1977) is a retiredCanadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks.
McLaren was drafted by the Boston Bruins in the first round, ninth-overall, during the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. He played his first NHL season when he was just eighteen in the 1995–96 season, and was the youngest player on an NHL roster that year.
In Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfianals on April 25 in the 2002 playoffs, McLaren injured Richard Zednik of the Montreal Canadiens with an elbow to the face. McLaren received a three-game suspension from the league. Despite Boston winning the game 5-2, they would lose the series to the Canadiens in six games. Thanks to McLaren's flagrant and careless elbow to Zednik's face, the Canadiens would be without Zednik for the rest of the Playoffs and would promptly lose to the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round in six games.
By July 2002 McLaren was dissatisfied with his perceived role in the Bruins organization. That summer, McLaren had been offered a two-way contract by Bruins general manager Mike O'Connell, meaning that McLaren could be made to report to the minor league affiliate of the Bruins, the Providence Bruins of the AHL, where he would earn but a small fraction of his NHL salary. An established NHL player at that point, McLaren was insulted and demanded a trade.
In a three-way deal, San Jose traded their 1999 first-round pick Jeff Jillson and goaltender Jeff Hackett, previously acquired from Montreal for Niklas Sundstrom and a third-round pick, to Boston for McLaren and a fourth-round selection in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
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