Arnie Brown

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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

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Arnie Brown. greatesthockeylegends.com, August 7, 2015, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ Zack Crawford: Dual Citizenship: Arnie Brown. In: nhl.com. Detroit Red Wings , June 18, 2012, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 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
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