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blaine down

Retired Canadian Ice-Hockey player, 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. From here, he played two years in the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen with the Herning Blue Fox, helping the team win the 2007 and 2008 Danish championship. He signed with 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. He won the Champions Hockey League with the ZSC Lions in 2009.  In four years, he saw the ice in 74 NLA and 87 NLB contests, capturing the Swiss national championship with the ZSC Lions in 2012 and competing with Team Canada in three Spengler Cups, Blaine finished his career in the DEL and finally the EBEL in Austria in the Spring of 2019.  Since retirement, Blaine has remained in the hockey world coaching youth minor  hockey in Whitby while working within the development and technology space with recent work experience as the North American Business Development Director for Sense Arena.