McLean played major junior hockey with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and was drafted in the sixth round, 107th overall by the Devils in 1984. He played with the Devils\' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Maine Mariners, before being traded to the Canucks in 1987. He is best known for his 10 and a half seasons with the Canucks, during which time he was a finalist for two Vezina Trophies in 1989 and 1992, named to two NHL All-Star Games and received Second All-Star Team honours. In 1994, he backstopped the Canucks to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Rangers. In 1998, he was traded away and spent the final three seasons of his career with the Hurricanes, Panthers and Rangers, before retiring in 2001.\n', '

Since retiring, McLean has been a goaltending coach for the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League (WHL), worked in broadcasting with the Canucks\' pay-per-view telecasts and became a part-owner of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL)\'s Burnaby Express (now Coquitlam Express). He was involved in the restaurant business in Vancouver.\n', 'He now works for the Vancouver Canucks as the Ambassador and is a boardmember of the Canuck Alumni Foundation.\n', '

McLean was born in Willowdale, Ontario, on June 26, 1966 and is of Scottish and smaller Irish descent, in which his mask had his family\'s Scottish tartan on it. He grew up dreaming of playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs and looked up to NHL star Bernie Parent as a role model. Playing minor ice hockey in the Metro Toronto Hockey League (MTHL) with the Don Mills Flyers, he recorded a 2.01 goals against average (GAA) over 26 games in the 1982–83 season. He played in the 1979 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with Don Mills.\n', '

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