Brian Bellows

Brian Bellows ( born September 1, 1964 in St. Catharines, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who from 1982 to 1999 for the Minnesota North Stars, the Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League as well as the Berlin Capitals in the German Ice Hockey League played.

Career

In his youth, he played for the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League and led his team to the Memorial Cup victory. The team was busy also excellent on the defensive with Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens. Here he distinguished himself by his leadership qualities. NHL Entry Draft 1982 drafteten the Minnesota North Stars him as the second player, behind Gord Kluzak, even before players like Scott Stevens or Dave Andreychuk.

Ready for the season 1982/83 brought to him in the NHL and the expectations of him were great. The bar for young players was unattainable high at this time by Wayne Gretzky and his start to the season was not very successful, but in the course of the season he got used to the new league and was able to convince some of his critics.

In his second season he took over representation for the injured Craig Hartsburg the Office of the team's captain and was one of the youngest captains, the NHL had ever seen. In his decade with the North Stars, he managed to achieve it seven times over 75 points scorer. Twice he was the best scorer of his team. Due to his activities outside the ice he was appreciated in Boston. Even in the playoffs of the season 1990/91 he was the best scorer of his team and came up with the North Stars in the finals for the Stanley Cup, but here they failed to Pittsburgh Penguins Mario Lemieux to.

For the 1992/93 season he left Minnesota in exchange for Russ Courtnall to the Montreal Canadiens. There, too, he was among the Topscorern. After a weaker 1994/95 season he was delivered to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Here he played as strong as expected in 1995/ 96 and was not further transferred shortly after the start of the next season of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

For the season 1997/98 he moved to Germany to Berlin Capitals but returned towards the end of season in March 1998, back in the NHL. His new team was the Washington Capitals. He also played the 1998/99 season, in which he as 54 players reached the 1,000 -point mark on January 2, 1999 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. After the end of the season he ended his active career.