The former captain and first King to lift the Stanley Cup will be immortalized with a statue outside Crypto.com Arena and jersey retirement ceremony Saturday
Though the grind of more games than any player in Kings franchise lore and the most official hits of anyone in NHL history was long and arduous for Dustin Brown, it was aptly summarized in an instant this week.
“I’m not sure anybody’s going to be able to compete with Brownie in that aspect, because he was the captain of multiple Stanley Cup teams,” General Manager Rob Blake made it a point to say before discussing the team’s season, success and shortcomings after Brown’s final campaign. “If you look at the playoff games and playoff history, Brownie is one of the best players ever,” Sutter said. “In fact, one of those playoff runs, I believe Brownie was tied with Kopi for the scoring race in the playoffs. In regular seasons, guys have ebbs and flows in their games, but Brownie, in playoff time, every shift, every game he was right there.
For the rugged side the 6-foot, 220-pounder showed opponents and the somewhat stoic nature of his meticulous daily routines, Brown was also a source of confidence, guidance and even levity, albeit sometimes unintentional, for his teammates. Kopitar was hardly the only King to forge a strong bond with Brown, whose career spanned generations and encompassed the ups and downs of two rebuilds to go along with a pair of championships.
“When you play, there’s days when your body hurts just getting out of bed. I haven’t had any of those days in a long time now, which is really nice for me,” Brown said. “It gave me a little preview of what it was going to be like and it’s been pretty much how I expected,” Brown said. “A lot of pickups, a lot of dropoffs. I’m like an Uber driver with my kids for school and sports.”
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