Arnie Brown
Date of birth | January 28, 1942 |
place of birth | Oshawa , Ontario , Canada |
date of death | 26th July 2019 |
Place of death | Apsley , Ontario , Canada |
size | 180 cm |
Weight | 84 kg |
position | defender |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
1959-1961 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors |
1961–1962 | Toronto Marlboros |
1962-1964 | Rochester Americans |
1964 | Baltimore Clippers |
1964-1971 | New York Rangers |
1971-1972 | Detroit Red Wings |
1972-1973 | New York Islanders |
1973-1974 | Atlanta Flames |
1974-1975 | Michigan Stags / Baltimore Blades |
1975 | Vancouver Blazers |
Stewart Arnold "Arnie" Brown (born January 28, 1942 in Oshawa , Ontario ; † July 26, 2019 in Apsley , Ontario) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 703 games during his active career between 1959 and 1975 the Toronto Maple Leafs , New York Rangers , Detroit Red Wings , New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 60 more for the Michigan Stags and Baltimore blades and Vancouver Blazers in the World Hockey Association (WHA) on contested the position of defender . Brown celebrated his greatest career success during his junior career by winning the prestigious Memorial Cup in 1961.
Career
Brown was in the Canadian Oshawa in the province of Ontario born, but grew up in nearby Apsley on. After he had already played with adults in a team in his junior years due to the lack of opportunities, he moved to Toronto at the age of 17 . There the defender initially plays two years for the Toronto St. Michael's Majors junior team in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) at the end of the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League (NHL ). At the end of the 1960/61 season he won with the team the double from the J. Ross Robertson Cup of the OHA and the Memorial Cup of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). After this success he moved within the city and league to the Toronto Marlboros after the St. Michael's Majors had renounced another employment of the player.
Finally, Brown switched to the professional field before the 1962/63 season, after he had already received a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs the previous year and had narrowly missed the leap into the organization after the pre-season training camp. Due to the fact that the then Leafs coach Punch Imlach preferred to work with seasoned players, Brown failed to establish himself in the NHL in the following two years. He completed only six games for Toronto during this time, which made him not one of the teams that won the Stanley Cup in those years , and was mainly in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Rochester Americans . In February 1964, the young player was part of a large transfer deal between Toronto and the New York Rangers . While he joined the Broadway Blueshirts with Dick Duff , Bob Nevin , Rod Seiling and Bill Collins , the Maple Leafs got Andy Bathgate and Don McKenney . After the defensive player had spent the rest of the 1963/64 season with the Baltimore Clippers in the AHL, he made the jump into the Rangers squad in the following game year.
In the service of the Rangers, the Canadian developed into an indispensable regular player in the following six and a half years, who had his best year in the league in the 1969/70 season with 36 scorer points . Harry Howell mostly acted at his side, followed by Brad Park after his move in the summer of 1969 . After Brown suffered a serious knee injury during the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 1970 , numerous operations were required that restricted his mobility. In February 1971, after seven years in New York, he was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings together with Mike Robitaille and Tom Miller . In return, the Rangers received Bruce MacGregor and Larry Brown as compensation.
At the Red Wings, the defender was not long at home, as he only belonged to the franchise until October 1972 and completed 104 games during that time. With Gerry Gray he was sent to the New York Islanders in exchange for Denis DeJordy and Don McLaughlin , who in turn gave him over to the Atlanta Flames in exchange for Ernie Hicke - and at the end of the season - Billy MacMillan during the 1972/73 season . With the Flames, Brown completed his last of a total of 703 NHL games in the 1973/74 season .
The defender played his last professional season in the 1974/75 season in the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was in competition with the NHL at the time . There the Chicago Cougars had secured his transfer rights for the WHA in February 1972 as part of the WHA General Player Draft , which they sold to the Michigan Stags in October 1974 . There Brown began the season and moved with the team to Baltimore during the season , where the team initially maintained game operations as Baltimore Blades . When the dissolution of the franchise could not be averted during the season, he moved as a free agent to league rivals Vancouver Blazers . There he ended his active career after ten missions at the age of 33.
He then worked briefly in the 1977/78 season as an assistant coach under head coach Orland Kurtenbach at the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL. He then worked for the chemical company Monsanto for 25 years and was elected to the North Kawartha local council after returning to his hometown of Apsley in 2004 . Brown died in his hometown in July 2019 at the age of 77.
Achievements and Awards
- 1961 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with Toronto St. Michael's Majors
- 1961 Memorial Cup win with the Toronto St. Michael's Majors
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1959/60 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors | OHA Jr. | 48 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 112 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 14th | ||
1960/61 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors | OHA Jr. | 47 | 7th | 11 | 18th | 110 | 20th | 6th | 9 | 15th | 60 | ||
1961 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors | Memorial Cup | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 0 | 4th | 4th | 26th | ||
1961/62 | Toronto Marlboros | OHA Jr. | 19th | 7th | 10 | 17th | 70 | 7th | 0 | 8th | 8th | 23 | ||
1961/62 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1961/62 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1962/63 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 71 | 4th | 24 | 28 | 143 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | ||
1963/64 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 47 | 4th | 23 | 27 | 119 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1963/64 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1963/64 | Baltimore Clippers | AHL | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1964/65 | New York Rangers | NHL | 58 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 145 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1965/66 | New York Rangers | NHL | 64 | 1 | 7th | 8th | 106 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1966/67 | New York Rangers | NHL | 69 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 61 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | ||
1967/68 | New York Rangers | NHL | 74 | 1 | 25th | 26th | 83 | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8th | ||
1968/69 | New York Rangers | NHL | 74 | 10 | 12 | 22nd | 48 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
1969/70 | New York Rangers | NHL | 73 | 15th | 21st | 36 | 78 | 4th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 9 | ||
1970/71 | New York Rangers | NHL | 48 | 3 | 12 | 15th | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1970/71 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 27 | 2 | 6th | 8th | 30th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1971/72 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 77 | 2 | 23 | 25th | 84 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1972/73 | New York Islanders | NHL | 48 | 4th | 8th | 12 | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1972/73 | Atlanta Flames | NHL | 15th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1973/74 | Atlanta Flames | NHL | 48 | 2 | 6th | 8th | 29 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1974/75 | Michigan Stags / Baltimore Blades | WHA | 50 | 3 | 4th | 7th | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1974/75 | Vancouver Blazers | WHA | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
OHA Jr. total | 114 | 16 | 26th | 42 | 292 | 37 | 6th | 19th | 25th | 97 | ||||
AHL total | 132 | 8th | 53 | 61 | 272 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | ||||
NHL overall | 681 | 44 | 141 | 185 | 738 | 22nd | 0 | 6th | 6th | 23 | ||||
WHA total | 60 | 4th | 5 | 9 | 40 | - | - | - | - | - |
( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1 play-downs / relegation )
Web links
- Arnie Brown at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Arnie Brown at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Arnie Brown. greatesthockeylegends.com, August 7, 2015, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ^ Zack Crawford: Dual Citizenship: Arnie Brown. In: nhl.com. Detroit Red Wings , June 18, 2012, accessed March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Brown, longtime NHL defenseman, dies at 77. Spent seven of 12 seasons with Rangers, played for four other teams. In: nhl.com. National Hockey League , July 28, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brown, Arnie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Stewart Arnold (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oshawa , Ontario , Canada |
DATE OF DEATH | 26th July 2019 |
Place of death | Apsley , Ontario, Canada |