Connie Brown (ice hockey player)

Connie Brown
Date of birth	January 11, 1917
place of birth	Vankleek Hill , Ontario , Canada
date of death	June 3, 1996
size	170 cm
Weight	76 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1933-1934	Ottawa St. Malachy's
1934-1936	Ottawa Rideaus
1936-1938	Cornwall Flyers
1938-1939	Pittsburgh Hornets
1939-1943	Detroit Red Wings Indianapolis Capitals
1945-1947	Ottawa Senators
1947-1949	Valleyfield Braves
1949-1950	Glace Bay Miners
1950-1951	Ottawa Army
1951-1952	Hull flounces

Cornelius "Connie" Brown (born January 11, 1917 in Vankleek Hill , Ontario ; † June 3, 1996 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who completed a total of 87 games for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League between 1938 and 1943 . In the 1942/43 season he won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings .

Career

During his junior years , the center played in the Ottawa City Junior Hockey League (OCJHL) for the Ottawa St. Malachy’s and the Ottawa Rideaus , with which he took part in the 1935 Memorial Cup finals. Then the Canadian signed a contract with league rivals Cornwall Flyers, with whom he reached the final round of the Allan Cup in 1938 .

After this season Connie Brown moved to the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League , of which he was initially used mainly in the Pittsburgh Hornets farm team in the International-American Hockey League , later the American Hockey League . The Canadian finally spent most of the 1939/40 season with the Red Wings, where he formed a storm line with Cecil Dillon and Butch McDonald and scored eight goals. In the following year , however, he was mainly used again in the IAHL. In the 1942/43 season , the attacker was part of the Red Wings squad, which won the Stanley Cup , but did not complete a single game in the play-offs . After five years in Detroit, Brown left the franchise in the same year in the direction of Petawawa Grenades from the Ottawa Valley Hockey League , via which he returned to the OCHL in 1944, where he joined the Ottawa Engineers .

Brown then stood for four more seasons with the Senators and the Valleyfield Braves in the Quebec Senior Hockey League on the ice. With the Braves, the striker played his statistically best season in 1948/49 with 88 points in 63 games before he moved to the Glace Bay Miners in the Cape Breton Senior Hockey League in the 1949/50 season. With the Ottawa Army and the Hull Volants , two more years followed in the Eastern Canada Senior Hockey League , after which the Canadian ended his active career.

Achievements and Awards

• 1943 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	5	73	15th	24	39	12
Playoffs	2	14th	2	3	5	0

Web links

• Connie Brown at hockeydb.com (English)
• Connie Brown at legendsofhockey.net (English)