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He finished second in the league for goals scored, with 62, in the 1985-1986 OHL season, leading the top scoring Centennials to second place in the regular season.
He finished second in the league for goals scored, with 62, in the 1985-1986 OHL season, leading the top scoring Centennials to second place in the regular season.
He played eight seasons in the National Hockey League (National Hockey League) for the Hartford Whalers, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs. He is currently a hockey analyst on the Sportsnet cable television network in Canada. Kypreos was an effective goal scorer in juniors with the North Bay Centennials of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).
Kypreos struggled to score at the National Hockey League level and immediately became known as an enforcer, a role he maintained throughout his pro career.
He was never drafted by an National Hockey League team, but was signed as a free agent by the Philadelphia Flyers on the eve of his second junior season. However, his National Hockey League career began with the Washington Capitals.
He made his final National Hockey League stop with his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs. As a Maple Leaf, his career ended as the result of a concussion sustained in a fight with the Rangers" Ryan VandenBussche in a pre-season game on September 15, 1997 when his face hit the ice after he was punched unconscious.
After the injury, Kypreos suffered post-concussion syndrome and was forced to retire.
He would finish his National Hockey League career with 46 goals, 44 assists, 90 points, and 1,210 penalty minutes in 442 regular season games. Since retiring as a player, Kypreos has gone on as a hockey analyst for the Sportsnet cable television network in Canada, as the co-host of Hockey Central, first with Darren Dreger, and later with Daren Millard. He also co-hosts Hockey Central at Noon on The Fan 590 in Toronto and simulcast on Sportsnet.
The show was co-hosted by Daren Millard and Bill Berg until the fall of 2008, when Berg left and was replaced by Mike Brophy.
Starting in the fall of 2009, former National Hockey League coach and executive Doug MacLean was also added to the program as an analyst. Kypreos has also appeared on Sportsnet"s main rival, TSN, for some extra analysis work, notably when Hockey Canada announced the Canadian national team for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Kypreos has also acted, appearing as a pro hockey player in a 1996 episode of the Home Box Office program Arli$$ entitled What About the Fans?.
His best National Hockey League season came in 1992-1993 while a member of the Hartford Whalers, when he scored a career-best 17 goals while earning 325 penalty minutes, which was the fourth-highest penalty minute total in the league that season.