After last season took him to the lowest place in his career, Brown is set up for quite the redemption...
EDMONTON — Oh, to be a fly on the wall in Ristorante Sotto Sotto one night last summer in downtown Toronto as Connor McDavid made his sales pitch to in-demand free agent and his former junior teammate Connor Brown to join the Edmonton Oilers.
For Brown, it was fitting in some ways that his future was decided over a plate of pasta, since food was just about the only thing Brown had control over last season. Four games into his tenure with the Washington Capitals last October, Brown blew out his ACL when his leg twisted under him during an awkward spill into the boards after a mostly routine hit from Vancouver Canucks defenseman Noah Juulsen.
Unable to play and on the shelf for the remainder of the season, in a contract year no less, Brown needed to fill his days outside of rehab every morning at the Capitals’ suburban Virginia practice facility. His challenge: If I can’t improve on the ice, what is one small way to improve off it? His answer: Diet and nutrition.
Brown praised the Capitals’ coaching and training staff for trying to make him feel part of the team. He spent a lot of time with recently retired forward Carl Hagelin, John Carlson and Tom Wilson as they also rehabbed their injuries. But it was entirely new territory for Brown, a year in which you’re paid like an NHL player, but don’t really feel like one.
Through all of it, Brown wasn’t quite sure what the future would hold as a free agent. Would teams be lining up? Or would he have to wait and grind for a new deal in a flat-cap world? It was the former, with upwards of 12 to 16 teams expressing interest in his services to agent Jeff Jackson, who since became the Oilers’ CEO of hockey operations.
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