Connie Brown
Cornelius " Connie " Brown ( born January 11, 1917 in Vankleek Hill, Ontario; † 3 June 1996 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 87 games for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League 1938-1943. In the 1942/43 season he won with the Red Wings to the Stanley Cup.
Career
During his junior time the Center played in the Ottawa City Junior Hockey League ( OCJHL ) for the Ottawa St. Malachy's and the Ottawa Rideau, with which he participated in 1935 in the final round at the Memorial Cup. Then the Canadians signed a contract with the Premier League rivals Cornwall Flyers, with whom he reached the 1938 final round at the Allan Cup.
After this season, Connie Brown transferred to the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League, of which he, however, was initially used mainly in the farm team Pittsburgh Hornets in the International - American Hockey League, later the American Hockey League. The season 1939/40, spent the Canadians finally, for the most part with the Red Wings, where he formed a forward line with Cecil Dillon and Butch McDonald and was able to achieve eight goals. Already in the following year, however, he was again mainly used in the IAHL. In the 1942/43 season, the attacker belonged to the squad of the Red Wings, who could win the Stanley Cup, but even completed a single game in the play- offs. After five years in Detroit Brown left the franchise in the same year towards Petawawa Grenades from the Ottawa Valley Hockey League, of which he in 1944 returned to the OCHL, where he Ottawa Engineers joined.
Then Brown stood for four more seasons with the Senators and the Valleyfield Braves in the Quebec Senior Hockey League on the ice. For the Braves, the striker 1948/49, played with 88 scorer points in 63 games his statistically best season before he joined the Senior Hockey League season 1949/50, to the Glace Bay Miners in Cape Breton. With the Army and the Ottawa Hull ruffles followed by two more years in Eastern Canada Senior Hockey League, according to which the Canadians ended his active career.