Blaine Down

Blaine Down


Born	(1982-07-16) July 16, 1982 Oshawa, ON, CAN
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	183 lb (83 kg; 13 st 1 lb)
Position	Centre
Shoots	Left
DEL team Former teams	Straubing Tigers Bridgeport Sound Tigers Ritten-Renon Herning IK SC Langenthal ZSC Lions
NHL Draft	Undrafted
Playing career	2002–present

Blaine Down (born July 16, 1982) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Straubing Tigers in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).

Down played major junior hockey with the Barrie Colts in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) where he was active from 1999 to 2002, winning in 2000 the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions. He then played three years for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League (AHL), before joining Ritten Sport in Italy's Serie A in 2005. Then he played for two years in the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen with the Herning Blue Fox before moving to the ZSC Lions organization of the Swiss National League A starting with the 2008-09 season, also playing at Zurich's farm team, the GCK Lions of the National League B.

On June 10, 2012, the Straubing Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga announced the signing of Down to a one-year contract.^[1]

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