Dustin Brown
Dustin Brown ( * November 4, 1984 in Ithaca, New York ) is an American professional ice hockey player. Since 2003 he plays for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League for the position of right winger.
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Career
The 1.83 m wide winger first played from 1998 to 2000 in the State of New York for the high school team in the Ithaca High Little Red, in the high school league system of the United States. During the 1999/2000 season the right shooter was also active for the Syracuse Stars. Subsequently, Brown spent three seasons in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he went for the Guelph Storm on the ice. Directly after this time the attacker at the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 in the first round was selected at position 13 of the Los Angeles Kings.
Of the Kings of the right shooter was first used in the 2003/04 season, his first NHL goal came attackers on 9 October 2003 against the Detroit Red Wings. However, his debut season in the jersey of the Kings limited to a total of 31 NHL bets since made him an ankle injury early in the season out of action. The lockout in the 2004 /05 Brown spent at the Manchester Monarchs in the American Hockey League and then returned to the squad of the Kings. In 2007, he signed a six-year contract there, which should earn him about 19 million U.S. dollars.
For the season 2008/ 09, the attacker was appointed captain of the Los Angeles Kings, so he replaced the migrated to the San Jose Sharks Rob Blake in this function. At the same time Brown was the first American in the history of the Kings, which ran the captaincy and this time with an age of 23 years, the youngest in the team 's history. Nevertheless, the Kings as in previous years, missed the playoffs for the Stanley Cup. In the 2009/10 season, the Los Angeles Kings occupied the sixth place in the Western Conference, and thus qualified for the first time since 2002 for the play- offs. There, the team was defeated in the first round of the Vancouver Canucks in the best- of-seven series with 2:4 games. In the following season eliminated the Kings in the first play-off round after six games out, this time the team defeated the San Jose Sharks.
In the season 2011/12 Brown reached again with the eighth place in the regular season almost in the playoffs and met in Conference quarter-finals of the winners of the Presidents' Trophy, the Vancouver Canucks. The Kings advanced to the big playoff surprise by beating them 4-1 in the series and further penetrated to the Stanley Cup final. The team captain was thus able to win his first Clarence S. Campbell Bowl with his team. But the prestigious Stanley Cup was not denied him after the sixth finals he drove his team to the first track of the club 's history.
The NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season spent the Americans at Swiss club ZSC Lions.
Internationally
Brown represented his country at both junior as well as senior citizens level. As a junior player in the right shooter graduated from the U20 World Junior Championships in 2002 and 2003, in which the offensive athlete to win a medal just missed each. For the U20 World Youth Championship in 2004, the striker was also nominated in the squad, but was not usable in practice due to injury. For the seniors choice of the U.S. National Team Brown stood for the 2004 World Series for the first time in the squad at the World Championships, and finally secured a victory against the Slovak selection in the match for third place bronze medal.
Two years later the striker finished the 2006 World Cup with five goals and two assists in seven games as the best points scorer of Americans, was defeated with the team but in the quarterfinals to the eventual champions Sweden. For the World Cup 2009, the now 24 -year-old right-handed shooter led his home country at the World Championships as team captain. At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 Brown ran as one of four assistant captains of Americans on the ice and won with the team the silver medal. However, in the course of the tournament, he remained no points in all six games and ended the competition with a balanced plus / minus balance.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 Bobby Smith Trophy
- 2001 OHL First All - Rookie Team
- 2002 Bobby Smith Trophy
- 2003 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2003 Bobby Smith Trophy
- 2003 OHL Third All-Star Team
- 2003 CHL Scholastic Player of the Year
- 2005 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2009 NHL All-Star Game
- 2011 NHL Foundation Player Award
- 2012 Stanley Cup win with the Los Angeles Kings
Internationally
- 2004 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2010 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- U20 Junior World Cup 2002
- U20 Junior World Championship 2003
- World Cup 2004
- World Cup 2006
- World Championship 2008
- World Cup 2009
- 2010 Winter Olympics
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )