![]() ![]() His last hurrah was with the Pens, with 14 goals and 14 assists in 72 games with an incredible 238 penalty minutes. This included the aforementioned Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Arizona Coyotes. While Downie was little to no effect on the Avs at the time, he did take the least amount of penalty minutes in this three-year stretch and continued delivering big hits.ĭownie flip-flopped around three teams for the rest of his career in three years. It was then revealed that Downie had gotten into an altercation with Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog at training camp to cause the trade. He was then shipped off back to the Flyers for the rest of the year for Max Talbot in return. He only played 11 games and recorded only one goal rounding out to three goals total in his Avalanche career. Finally, in 2013-14 under Patrick Roy, it didn’t work out for him. In 2012-13, he would only play two games before tearing his ACL and proceeding to be out for the season. ![]() Little did we know that was going to be the most amount of games he’d play in a season for the Avs. Downie played the final 20 games of the season with the bigfoot on his shoulder, still recording two goals and 11 assists in that time. The Lightning in turn received a 2012 first round pick which became Andrei Vasilevskiy. Kyle Quincey would be sent the other way out of the Avs organization in the move and then immediately moved to the Detroit Red Wings. Midway through the 2011-12 season, Downie would be shipped out of Tampa Bay to the Mile High City. His most successful season with the Bolts was 2009-10 with 22 goals and 24 assists in 79 games, the highest scoring mark and games played of his career. In 214 games for the organization, he recorded 47 goals, 65 assists, and a whopping 554 penalty minutes. He spent a chunk of his time with the Lightning, four years to be exact. He was subpar in the AHL with the Phantoms, with again only six goals and 19 assists in 25 games and an astonishing 137 penalty minutes.Īfter the 2008-09 season, Downie spent the majority of the rest of his career in the NHL. He only played 38 games as a Flyer recording six goals and six assists in those two years but recorded a high amount of penalty minutes, 84 in total. Photo by Claus Anderson/Getty Imagesīetween 20, Downie then experimented with professional hockey splitting time between the AHL and NHL levels under the Philadelphia Flyers and Tampa Bay Lightning banners. Ross Roberts Memorial Cup that season but would win it the following year with the Peterborough Petes. Downie also recorded an astronomical 179 penalty minutes in the regular season, and an additional 49 minutes in the postseason as well. In the playoffs, he played in 11 games with four goals and five assists. His most successful season in this developmental stretch was in 2004-05 with the Spitfires, with 21 goals and 52 assists in 73 games. He also played one game in the AHL for the Philadelphia Phantoms in the 2006-07 season. He played for the Windsor Spitfires, Peterborough Petes, and Kitchener Rangers. ![]() He was then promoted to the OHL for four years between 20. Downie played for the Avs between 20 but found little ice time in those three years.ĭownie started his professional career in 2002-03 in the OPJHL with 12 goals and 13 assists in 34 games. Sadly, that will continue and hopefully he'll be back on the ice sooner than later, though at this point it probably won't be soon enough to join Brandon Sutter and Steve Downie on what the Penguins wanted to run as their third line.In the midst of the Joe Sacco and beginning of the Patrick Roy era of Colorado Avalanche coaching came along a bottom-six member by the name of Steve Downie. No one on the team probably gives more of their time to children and charities than Bennett, who's a legit good dude that just can't seem to catch a break. Good time to break the Twitter hiatus, haven't had the best luck and no one is more mad/sad than me. After practice coach Mike Johnston said it might not have been a worst case scenario, but didn't offer updates as to if they know the exact condition. So in a cruel twist of fate, Bennett went down in practice today and had to be helped off the ice with no weight on his left leg. He scored the team's only goal against Detroit recently, and created several scoring chances just last night against Minnesota.Īt only 22 years old, Bennett has already spent more than his fair share of time on the shelf due to injuries, including multiple wrist surgeries in the past year that cost him 61 NHL games last season. Beau Bennett was one of the best forwards in training camp so far for the Pittsburgh Penguins. ![]()
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