Brian Campbell
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| Position | Defense |
| Shoots | Left |
| Nickname | Soupy |
| Height Weight |
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 190 lb (86 kg) |
| NHL Team F. Teams |
Buffalo Sabres none |
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Born | May 23, 1979, Strathroy ON, CAN |
| NHL Draft | Round 6, 156th overall, 1997 Buffalo Sabres |
| Pro Career | 2000 – present |
Brian Wesley Campbell (born on May 23, 1979, Strathroy, Ontario) is an ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Buffalo Sabres.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
Not known as a physically imposing defenseman, Brian achieved notoriety during the first round of the 2006 NHL playoffs when he applied a brutal but clean open-ice bodycheck to Philadelphia Flyers' R.J. Umberger, leaving Umberger sprawled upon the ice with a concussion.
Campbell was named an alternate captain for one NHL preseason game (against the Toronto Maple Leafs). On January 9, 2007 he was the leading vote getter amongst Eastern Conference defenceman, earning him his first NHL All-Star appearance.
[edit] Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1995-96 | Ottawa 67's | OHL | 66 | 5 | 22 | 27 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1996-97 | Ottawa 67's | OHL | 66 | 7 | 36 | 43 | 12 | 24 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 8 | ||
| 1997-98 | Ottawa 67's | OHL | 66 | 14 | 39 | 53 | 31 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 0 | ||
| 1998-99 | Ottawa 67's | OHL | 62 | 12 | 75 | 87 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 6 | ||
| 1998-99 | Rochester Americans | AHL | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1999-00 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 67 | 2 | 24 | 26 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 1999-00 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 12 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2000-01 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 65 | 7 | 25 | 32 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2000-01 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2001-02 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 45 | 2 | 35 | 37 | 13 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2001-02 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 29 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2002-03 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 65 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 20 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2003-04 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 53 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2004-05 | Jokerit | FNL | 44 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 2005-06 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 79 | 12 | 32 | 44 | 16 | 18 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 12 | ||
| NHL totals | 285 | 26 | 85 | 111 | 88 | 18 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 12 | ||||
[edit] 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.
[edit] Trivia
- Nicknamed "Soupy" by his teammates, due to his last name being the same as the "Campbell" in Campbells' Soup
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| Preceded by Sergei Varlamov |
CHL Player of the Year 1999 |
Succeeded by Brad Richards |
