Brian Campbell

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Brian Wesley Campbell (born on May 23 1979, Strathroy, Ontario) is an ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Buffalo Sabres.

Contents

1 Personal
2 Playing career
3 International Career
4 Trivia
5 References

Personal

Brian grew up in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, where he attended elementary school at Colborne Street Public School and high school at Strathroy District Collegiate Institute. His parents are Ed and Lorna. He has two brothers, Craig and Darryl. Darryl also played pro hockey. He played four seasons in the ECHL, last for the Mississippi Sea Wolves.

Brian received national attention in Canada in 2003, not for playing hockey, but because of SARS. Brian's sister-in-law Vagia, who works at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital visited him on March 24, 2003. Shortly after, she started showing SARS symptoms and was subsequently hospitalized. This lead to the quarantine of both Brian and then teammate Rhett Warrener. Campbell missed three games before being cleared to play again. Neither player had any SARS symptoms.

Playing career

Brian was taken by the Ottawa 67's in the OHL as a third round draft pick in the 1995 OHL Priority Selection. In 1998-99 he won the Red Tilson Trophy as the OHL's Most Outstanding Player. He also won the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL's Defenceman of the Year and the William Hanley Trophy as the OHL's Most Gentlemanly Player, and to top it off Brian was also awarded the CHL Player of the Year.

He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres as their 6th round pick in the 1997 NHL entry draft, #156 overall. He played his first game for the Sabres in the 1999-2000 season, and remains with the team. During the NHL lockout in 2004-05, he played for Jokerit in Helsinki, Finland and won the silver medal in the SM-liiga Finnish championships.

Brian is well-known for being the player who ran into the Philadelphia Flyers' R.J. Umberger during the first round of the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs, leaving Umberger with a concussion.

International Career

Brian was a member of Team Canada at the 1999 World Junior Championships, and was named a first team all star for the tournament.

Trivia

Nicknamed "Soupy" by his teammates, due to the similarities of his last name with Campbell Soup

References

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