Today, the debate continues to be between Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel for the No. 1 spot at the 2015 NHL Draft.
Before long, the attention and conversation will turn to Brown and others looking at the 2016 NHL Draft in Buffalo.
Today, the debate continues to be between Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel for the No. 1 spot at the 2015 NHL Draft.
Before long, the attention and conversation will turn to Brown and others looking at the 2016 NHL Draft in Buffalo.
When the NCAA Frozen Four begins in Boston next week, four St. Louis products will be spread among the programs playing for college hockey supremacy. They include Brian O’Rourke (Nebraska-Omaha), Dominic Zombo (Nebraska-Omaha), Nick Saracino (Providence) and Michael Parks (North Dakota).
Brown, who will turn 17 Thursday when the Spitfires host the first-place Soo Greyhounds at the WFCU Centre (7 p.m., cable 11, live blog at windsorstar.com), was named the OHL’s rookie of the month Wednesday.
The Windsor Spitfires sacrificed a lot to acquire Logan Brown. So far, the rookie centre has been worth the investment.
The Spitfires gave up six draft picks before the start of the season to pry Brown from the Niagara IceDogs, who drafted the 16-year-old from Chesterfield, Mo., sixth overall in the 2014 Ontario Hockey League priority selection draft.
One suspects it is rarer still to get such a candid take on what that is really like than what Ottawa 67’s coach Jeff Brown offered after coaching against his son, 16-year-old Windsor Spitfires centre Logan Brown.
While players filed onto the bus after Wednesday’s overtime win in Belleville, Windsor Spitfires rookie Logan Brown met up with his family and headed to Ottawa with them.
While most of the Ontario kids have crossed paths growing up, Brown, who is from Chestefield, Missouri, is actually more familiar with the National Development Team Program’s under-17 team, which will represent the United States.
The Windsor Spitfires acquired top prospect Logan Brown from the Niagara IceDogs for six draft picks Tuesday.
Brown, the sixth overall pick in this year’s OHL draft, is a six-foot-five, 215-pound centre who had 19 goals in 19 games with the Indiana Ice Midget U16s last year.
The Niagara IceDogs hope to have a resolution to the Logan Brown situation by the first week of August.
The IceDogs have yet to sign Brown, their top draft choice in the 2014 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection, but have keep in constant contact with the talented centre and his father, former National Hockey League defenceman Jeff Brown.
Word of the former NHL defenceman becoming coach of the Ottawa 67’s lent itself to speculation online that his highly touted son, Niagara IceDogs first-round choice Logan Brown, might follow his father to Canada’s capital by way of a trade before the season.