We continue with Rob Cowie in the segment two of four here on "Inside the Game", brought to you by flexxCOACH.

Rob discusses graduating from school and signing with the Winnipeg Jets and his first training camp. "Cowboy" says that you learn fast that it is a business. That this is how guys make a living and it is tough. He looked around the room and you see guys like Phil Housley in the room. You have to learn how to be a professional hockey player. 

Rob got sent to Moncton in the AHL and played two years and then wound up in Springfield and had a breakout season. Was named to the AHL All-Star team and yet did not get called up to the parent club the Hartford Whalers. Joel Quennville was his coach in Springfield and he learned a lot from on defense. 

1994-95 he winds up in Phoenix playing for the Los Angeles Kings minor league team. The lockout happened that fall of 1994 and the coaches and management from the Kings came to Phoenix. He met Barry Melrose and he was impressed with Rob's play as a defenseman.

Rob's story about getting called up to the Kings with Sean O"Donnell getting injured. Was a very special moment in his hockey career. 

He tells about playing with Wayne Gretzky and how Gretzky set him up for his first goal in the NHL. 

Enjoy this segment great story about his NHL career.