Canucks: Well-travelled Jeff Ulmer brings a global view to Abbotsford coaching staff
Article content But from 2003 until he retired in 2018, outside of one season, Ulmer played the rest of his career in Europe, playing in well-established hockey cultures like Sweden, Finland, German, Switzerland and Russia, but also in outposts like Denmark, Scotland, Wales, Slovenia, Belarus and Austria “Like a mercenary,” he chuckled over the phone recently, as he packed up his house in Arizona in preparation for the move north to B.C. “For my first five, six, seven years in Europe, whatever i...