Posts About "Dave Brown"
Erie Otters Enjoy Successful OHL Draft
April 8th, 2018 For the first time since the 2012-13, the Erie Otters missed out on the OHL playoffs. As a result, they got to pick fourth in the Priority Selection. Sudbury, Flint and Peterborough owned the top-three spots. To the surprise of no one, the Sudbury Wolves took Quinton Byfield with the first overall pick. Although Flint hosted him and...
Erie Otters Turn Page on Tough Season
March 24th, 2018 We knew the Erie Otters were in tough in the 2017-18 Ontario Hockey League season. I'm not sure how many saw being shut out of the playoffs though. Thanks to a season filled with too many goals against, the Otters couldn't keep up with the league and found themselves on the outside looking in for the first time since Connor McDavid's...
OHL Sunday Seven: The Greyhounds 23-Game Winning Streak
December 31st, 2017 New in the 2017-18 season, we will have an OHL column called the Sunday Seven. Once a week or thereabouts, we will go around the league and highlight seven stories of note and share analysis. This week, we celebrate the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and their 23-game winning streak by devoting more than half this column to them. Close...
Eerie Feeling Around Erie Otters
August 13th, 2017 When the Erie Otters open training camp later this month, it will signal the dawn of a new era. Gone are most of the heroes of their OHL Championship team that came within one win from winning the Mastercard Memorial Cup. For the first time in over five seasons, the Otters will need to rebuild their team. They are no longer the...
Oilers History: The Dave Brown Effect
May 30th, 2017 When the Edmonton Oilers decided to trade away an aging Dave Semenko during the 1986-87 season they parted ways with one of the most popular players in club history and best enforcers to ever play the game. For those who didn’t get the chance to watch him play, No. 27 could strike the fear of god into opponents without the use his...
Book Review - Hockey Strong
December 7th, 2016 When I sat down to meet Todd Smith, author of Hockey Strong (which you can purchase here), I had plenty of questions about his definition of "hockey strong." His book focuses on the mental and physical toughness of hockey players as they fight through pain, injury, grief, sorrow and fear to play the game they love. He spends time...
