Jeff Brown

[Jason316]

I was just randomly browsing YouTube and saw this



Man in the 90s ESPN, Fox and CBC had great promos. When I visited family in Bellingham Washington or in Detroit Michigan I always put the CBC feed. We down here never got the feed unfortunately.

Anyways the 94 run from Vancouver was impressive reminds me of the 93 run with my Kings.

My question is what happened to Jeff Brown? He just disappeared from the face of the earth. Maybe Canadians know what he is up too now.

Also why was he traded after a great playoff run by him? Makes ZERO sense. He was the 3rd best player behind McLean and Linden.

I remember Blues forward Craig Jeanty(spelling probably wrong) was traded to Vancouver but he refused to play in Canada for some odd reason. So than they did a second trade a week later involving a package of players including Brown.

 

[JackSlater]

Brown was not the third best player on that Vancouver team. Really talented offensively, but not the guy to lead your defence. Personality wise or in terms of playing style. I don't really know why Vancouver got rid of him, though the rumour that he slept with McLean's wife was untrue. Maybe there was disappointment that he was not turning into the number one defenceman they may have wanted.

Brown probably came around a bit too late as he was not suited to clutch and grab late 90s hockey but would have thrived if given some more years in the 1980s.

 

[Hockeyholic]

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[McGarnagle]

Not trying to say it definitely happened because I don't know, but the fact that Carolina traded Jeff Brown out the day before they acquired McLean doesn't help in dispelling those rumors. Everyone involved denies it, but of course they're all denying it, nobody wants to air dirty laundry like that in public. I wouldn't rule it out.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

I remember Blues forward Craig Jeanty(spelling probably wrong) was traded to Vancouver but he refused to play in Canada for some odd reason. So than they did a second trade a week later involving a package of players including Brown.

kind of amazing, that single decision by janney destroyed two marriages

 

[sr edler]

I remember Blues forward Craig Jeanty(spelling probably wrong) was traded to Vancouver but he refused to play in Canada for some odd reason.

He did play 19 games for Winnipeg though.

 

[sr edler]

I've also always heard Janney didn't want to report to Vancouver, but now Janney's Wikipedia page says this

An arbitrator awarded the Canucks a second round draft pick along with Craig Janney. Both teams were not satisfied with the decision and the Canucks traded Janney back for Jeff Brown, Bret Hedican and Nathan LaFayette.

This isn't sourced though. But you wonder about him reporting to Winnipeg later? Because it's not like the Jets in 95–96 were really a better team than the 93–94 Canucks. Canucks also had Bure, which seems like a pretty enticing player for Janney to play with.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

I've also always heard Janney didn't want to report to Vancouver, but now Janney's Wikipedia page says this



This isn't sourced though. But you wonder about him reporting to Winnipeg later? Because it's not like the Jets in 95–96 were really a better team than the 93–94 Canucks. Canucks also had Bure, which seems like a pretty enticing player for Janney to play with.

he refused to report

here’s a direct quote from a primary source — Janney won't report to Vancouver

more context here from janney’s hometown paper—

According to reports, he was teary-eyed at his press conference.

“I think it would be a different situation if it would be a pure trade,” said Bob Murray, Janney’s agent. “It’s the circumstances behind which he’s been placed that are uncomfortable for him. The fact that it is in Canada as far as taxes, marketing and opportunities. His wife Cathy is getting a master’s in social work and is planning to attend law school.”

There’s no telling what Janney will do. Murray has suggested legal action is one possibility.

“We could pursue a lawsuit against the league,” he said. “I question whether this proceeding was a valid proceeding.”

The arbitration process was agreed to in collective bargaining with the players, although the CBA expired in September. Even if Janney won and was given back to the Blues, it would be hard to play there.

“That’s not the desired result,” Janney said. “I don’t think from my side or their side, either one of us wants me in a Blues uniform.”

Said Murray: “Another option is to report and play or our other option is to sit and wait.”

Wait for what? Murray said Janney has not asked the Canucks for a trade, although Quinn is shopping him before the Monday trade deadline. Murray also said he has not approached Vancouver about more money, although Janney stands to lose a greater portion of his salary because of the high Canadian taxes.

“Right now, it’s more of an emotional thing,” said Janney, who figured the knee injury would buy him some time to make a decision.

The knee is coming around. But only Janney knows how long it will take the emotional wounds to heal.

FOR JANNEY, IT’S NO CONSOLATION

If Brendan Shanahan was the reward the Vancouver Canucks sought in their arbitration case with St. Louis, Enfield native Craig Janney was the consolation gift. That’s the way Janney sees it. …

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[sr edler]

Thanks for that piece, and yeah, that's the narrative I had always presumed. Now I also feel a little bad for laughing at those last two sentences, about the knee healing but the emotional scars of being traded to Vancouver running way deeper.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Thanks for that piece, and yeah, that's the narrative I had always presumed. Now I also feel a little bad for laughing at those last two sentences, about the knee healing but the emotional scars of being traded to Vancouver running way deeper.

don’t you just kind of want to say to him, sorry cj but it only gets worse from here?

 

[McGarnagle]

Thanks for that piece, and yeah, that's the narrative I had always presumed. Now I also feel a little bad for laughing at those last two sentences, about the knee healing but the emotional scars of being traded to Vancouver running way deeper.

don’t you just kind of want to say to him, sorry cj but it only gets worse from here?

Especially when in the article it gives as a rationale for wanting to stay there that his wife was in school there.

Oof. Poor bastard.

 

[archangel2]

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Several sports guys in van conversion confirmed the rumours in how they talked about it a few years later. It was an open secret

 

[Hockeyholic]

So if a guy refuses to report to a team traded to these days (No NMC), can he hold out/refuse?

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Players can certainly refuse to report. There are consequences, however.

 

[sonic92]

I feel like Janney went to Winnipeg because he knew they'd be moving after that season.

 

[MS]

There's the Brown/McLean question marks but also Brown had major issues with Canuck coach Rick Ley during the 1995-96 season. Was a healthy scratch at one point and then gave a bizarre media scrum where he referred to himself repeatedly in the 3rd person 'Jeff Brown doesn't sit in the pressbox!' and sort-of requested a trade, and the trade happened shortly afterward. Whether his issues with Ley also involved him being a bad teammate who bonked his goalie's wife, who knows?

Canucks traded him with Frank Kucera as the centerpiece coming back who had a good reputation with Chicago/Hartford but was absolutely awful as a Canuck and quickly played himself out of the league.

Brown had a nice finish to the 95-96 season and seemed to have many more years of hockey in him aged only 30 but a series of injuries (including flesh-eating bacteria in a skate cut) ended his career 61 games later before his 32nd birthday.

 

[ShelbyZ]

Brown had a nice finish to the 95-96 season and seemed to have many more years of hockey in him aged only 30 but a series of injuries (including flesh-eating bacteria in a skate cut) ended his career 61 games later before his 32nd birthday.

IIRC, it was concussions that ultimately ended it for him. Had missed all of rounds 1-3 of the '98 playoffs with post concussion symptoms. Then dressed for the Finals, where he took a hit in game 2 that brought all the symptoms back.