Keith Brown (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Keith Brown Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 6, 1960
place of birth Corner Brook , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 89 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1979 , 1st round, 7th position
Chicago Black Hawks
Career stations
1976-1977 Fort Saskatchewan Traders
1977-1979 Portland Winter Hawks
1979-1993 Chicago Blackhawks
1993-1995 Florida panthers

Keith Jeffrey Brown (* 6. May 1960 in Corner Brook , Newfoundland and Labrador ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1976 to 1995 among other 979 games for the Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League on contested the position of defender .

Career

Brown spent his first season in the junior division first in the 1976/77 season with the Fort Saskatchewan Traders in the Alberta Junior Hockey League . After the defender was named rookie of the year and best defender in the league, he was drawn to the Western Canada Hockey League . There he was active for the Portland Winter Hawks for the next two years and collected 196 scorer points and 177 missions as an offensive defensive player . After his first year, he and John Ogrodnick received the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy as the best newcomer to the league. In his second and last year in Portland, he reached the final of the President's Cup with the team , where it was defeated by the Brandon Wheat Kings . He was also awarded the Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy as the best defensive player in the league. Then Brown was selected in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft in seventh overall position by the Chicago Black Hawks from the National Hockey League .

Immediately after the draft, the Canadian switched to the professional field and joined the Black Hawks for the 1979/80 season . In Chicago Brown was an immediate regular player, but from then on focused his game more on the defensive. His playing style, which was characterized by great commitment, subsequently meant that he was only able to play a small part of the season's games in the 1981/82 , 1987/88 and 1992/93 seasons due to injuries. Brown spent a total of 14 seasons up to the summer of 1993 in the service of the Chicago Blackhawks. He reached the final series with the franchise as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1992 , which was lost to the defending champion Pittsburgh Penguins .

Shortly before the start of the 1993/94 season, the Blackhawks transferred the defender to the newly formed Florida Panthers in exchange for Darin Kimble . They had struck gold in the search for an experienced player in the person of Brown. After another two NHL seasons for the Panthers, Brown ended his active career in the summer of 1995 at the age of 35.

International

For his home country Brown was active in the 1979 World Junior Championships in Sweden . He was used in all five tournament games and contributed two assists to reach fifth place.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1976/77 Fort Saskatchewan Traders AJHL 59 14th 61 75 14th - - - - -
1976/77 Portland Winter Hawks WCHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1977/78 Portland Winter Hawks WCHL 72 11 53 64 51 8th 0 3 3 2
1978/79 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 70 11 85 96 75 25th 3 30th 33 21st
1979/80 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 76 2 18th 20th 27 6th 0 0 0 4th
1980/81 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 80 9 34 43 80 3 0 2 2 2
1981/82 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 33 4th 20th 24 26th 4th 0 2 2 5
1982/83 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 50 4th 27 31 20th 7th 0 0 0 11
1983/84 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 74 10 25th 35 94 5 0 1 1 10
1984/85 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 56 1 22nd 23 55 11 2 7th 9 31
1985/86 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 70 11 29 40 87 3 0 1 1 9
1986/87 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 73 4th 23 27 86 4th 0 1 1 6th
1987/88 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 24 3 6th 9 45 5 0 2 2 10
1988/89 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 74 2 16 18th 84 13 1 3 4th 25th
1989/90 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 67 5 20th 25th 87 18th 0 4th 4th 43
1990/91 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 45 1 10 11 55 6th 1 0 1 8th
1991/92 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 57 6th 10 16 69 14th 0 8th 8th 18th
1992/93 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 33 2 6th 8th 39 4th 0 1 1 2
1993/94 Florida panthers NHL 51 4th 8th 12 60 - - - - -
1994/95 Florida panthers NHL 13 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
W (C) HL total 144 22nd 138 160 126 33 3 33 36 23
NHL overall 876 68 274 342 916 103 4th 32 36 184

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1979 Canada Jun World Cup 5th place 5 0 2 2 0
Juniors overall 5 0 2 2 0

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Brown, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Keith Jeffrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Corner Brook , Newfoundland and Labrador