Greg Brown

Greg Brown
Date of birth	March 7, 1968
place of birth	Southborough , Massachusetts , USA
size	184 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1986 , 2nd round, 26th position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1986-1987	Boston College
1987-1988	US National Team
1988-1990	Boston College
1990-1993	Buffalo Sabers Rochester Americans
1993-1994	Pittsburgh Penguins San Diego Gulls
1994-1995	Winnipeg Jets Cleveland Lumberjacks
1995-1996	Rögle BK
1996-1997	EHC Kloten VEU Feldkirch
1997-1998	EV Landshut
1998-2001	Cologne Sharks
2001-2003	Leksands IF

Gregory Curtis "Greg" Brown (born March 7, 1968 in Southborough , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach, who worked for the Buffalo Sabers , Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets from 1986 to 2003 in the National Hockey League , as well as the EV Landshut and the Kölner Haie in the German Ice Hockey League . His brother Doug was also a professional ice hockey player. He has been assistant coach for the New York Rangers since 2018 .

Career

Greg Brown began his career as a hockey player in the team at Boston College , for which he was active from 1986 to 1990 in the National Collegiate Athletic Association , where he paused his studies and playing the NCAA during the 1987/88 season, since he prepared with the national team for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in Calgary. During his time at Boston College he was one of the best players in the entire university league Hockey East , in whose first all-star team he was elected in 1989 and 1990. In both years he was named Hockey East Player of the Year. He led his team to the Hockey East Championship in 1987 and 1990.

Greg Brown, who had already been selected as a high school player in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft in the second round as a total of 26th player by the Buffalo Sabers , was under contract with them in the National Hockey League from 1990 to 1993 , but could not finally enforce, so that he was mostly on the ice for their farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League . On September 29, 1993, the defender finally signed as a free agent with Buffalo's league rivals Pittsburgh Penguins , with whom he only played for one season, however, as then at the Winnipeg Jets . In both years he was mainly in the International Hockey League for their farm teams San Diego Gulls and Cleveland Lumberjacks .

Since he could not find a new team in the NHL, the national player decided to move to Europe, where he initially played for Rögle BK in the Swedish Elitserien for a year. The 1996/97 season he started at EHC Kloten in the Swiss National League A and finished it at VEU Feldkirch in the Austrian Ice Hockey League . With Feldkirchen, he immediately won the national championship title . Following this success, the American received a contract with EV Landshut in the German Ice Hockey League . There he scored 28 scorer points in 54 games in the 1997/98 season , including five goals, with which he could recommend himself for a commitment with the Kölner Haien . He spent the following three seasons with the Rhinelanders before he put his skate back on in Sweden from 2000 to 2002. With the Leksands IF he rose during this period from the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan to the Elitserien, where he ended his career in 2002 at the age of 34.

From 2004 to 2012, Brown was assistant coach for the men's NCAA team at Boston College, before heading the team from 2012 to 2018. He then returned to the NHL as a coach by being hired as the new assistant to David Quinn for the New York Rangers .

International

For the USA Brown took part in the World Championships in 1989 , 1990 and 1998 , as well as in the Winter Olympics in 1988 in Calgary and 1992 in Albertville .

Achievements and Awards

• 1986 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1987 Hockey East All- Rookie Team
• 1987 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
• 1989 Hockey East First All-Star Team
• 1989 Hockey East Player of the Year
• 1990 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
• 1990 Hockey East First All-Star Team
• 1990 Hockey East Player of the Year
• 1990 NCAA New England Most Valuable Player
• 1997 Austrian champion with VEU Feldkirch
• 2002 Promotion to the Elitserien with the Leksands IF

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	4th	94	4th	14th	18th	86
NHL playoffs	1	6th	0	1	1	4th
DEL main round	4th	203	15th	69	84	130
DEL playoffs	2	16	2	8th	10	20th
Elitserien main round	2	52	6th	15th	21st	56
Elitserien Playoffs	1	5	1	0	1	10

Web links

• Greg Brown at hockeydb.com (English)
• Greg Brown at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Greg Brown at eliteprospects.com (English)