Green started with the Spokane Chiefs in the Western Hockey League (WHL), playing with them from 1986 to 1989.

In the middle of the 1989–90 season, he was traded to the Medicine Hat Tigers, where he completed his junior career.

However, he played only seven games in his return to the Ducks, before being claimed on waivers by another former team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, in January 2007.

[1][2] Midway through the 2012–13 season, head coach and general manager Mike Johnston was suspended by the WHL for player-benefit violations.

[6] On December 5, 2021, Green was fired as the head coach of the Canucks along with general manager Jim Benning after leading the team to an 8–15–2 record.