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| Position | Defence |
| Shoots | Left |
| Height Weight |
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 191 lb (87 kg/13 st 9 lb) |
| NHL Team F. teams |
Chicago Blackhawks San Jose Sharks Buffalo Sabres |
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Born | May 23, 1979 , Strathroy ON |
| NHL Draft | 156th overall, 1997 Buffalo Sabres |
| Pro career | 1999 – present |
Brian Wesley Campbell (born on May 23, 1979, Strathroy, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.
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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 for 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 led 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. He played his first game for the Sabres in the 1999–2000 season, and stayed with the team, wearing number 51, until February 26th, 2008 when he was traded to San Jose. 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 defenceman, Brian achieved notoriety during the first round of the 2006 NHL playoffs when he applied a bone crushing open-ice bodycheck to Philadelphia Flyers' R.J. Umberger, leaving Umberger sprawled upon the ice with a concussion.
On January 9, 2007 he was the leading vote getter amongst Eastern Conference defenceman for the 2007 NHL All-Star Game, earning him his first All-Star appearance. As a result of the Sabres rotating captaincy, Brian was named an alternate captain for the month of November 2007 and Captain for the month of December under the Sabres 2007–08 rotating captain and alternate captains system. Brian was selected again in 2008 NHL All-Star team.
At the trade deadline on February 26, 2008, Campbell and a 7th round draft pick were traded from the Buffalo Sabres to the San Jose Sharks for Steve Bernier and a 1st round pick in the 2008 draft.
Brian also led the league during the 2007-08 NHL season in games played as one of only two players to appear in 83 games, or one more than a team's full schedule, as based on his trade to San Jose (the other being Jeff Halpern.) Campbell was named a member of the NHL Competition Committee on April 21, 2008.
On July 1, 2008, Campbell signed an 8 year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks for roughly 7.1 million dollars a year. Fox Chicago reported that Campbell choose to sign with the Blackhawks despite allegedly receiving better contract offers from other organizations.[1]
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1994–95 | Petrolia Jets | OHA-B | 49 | 11 | 27 | 38 | 43 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2006–07 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 82 | 6 | 42 | 48 | 35 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | ||
| 2007–08 | Buffalo Sabres | NHL | 63 | 5 | 38 | 43 | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2007–08 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 20 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | ||
| NHL totals | 411 | 35 | 160 | 195 | 121 | 47 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 30 | ||||
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
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Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (July 2008) |
- Nicknamed "Soupy" by his teammates, due to his last name being the same as the "Campbell" in Campbell's Soup
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| Preceded by Sergei Varlamov |
CHL Player of the Year 1999 |
Succeeded by Brad Richards |
| Preceded by Toni Lydman |
Buffalo Sabres captains December 2007 |
Succeeded by Jaroslav Spacek |
