Eric Peter Brewer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League. Brewer has represented Canada at eight International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned events, winning three Ice Hockey World Championships gold medals and one World Cup of Hockey gold medal. He won his Olympic gold medal during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Brewer was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Eric Peter Brewer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League. Brewer has represented Canada at eight International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned events, winning three Ice Hockey World Championships gold medals and one World Cup of Hockey gold medal. He won his Olympic gold medal during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Brewer was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame with his British Columbian teammates in 2003. In mid-2004, Brewer married Rebecca Flann, whom he met while playing junior hockey with the Prince George Cougars; they live in Vancouver, British Columbia. Brewer’s sister, Kristi, played for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds women’s ice hockey team. Brewer is involved in numerous charitable organizations, including the Ryan Smyth and Friends All-Star Charity Tour, the Brad May and Friends Hockey Challenge, as well as the Our Game to Give charity hockey game held at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario. He was ranked sixth overall among North American skaters heading into the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Just over a year after being drafted by the New York Islanders, Brewer was named the highest defenceman on the WHL West Second All-star team for the 1998 WHL World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He has also played in the American Hockey League for the Lowell Lock Monsters and the St. Louis Blues, and captained the Blues for two years. He is a member of the Canadian Hockey League’s all-time team, and was named to the all-star roster for the 1999-2000 WHL season.
He also has a daughter, Rebecca, with whom he has two daughters, and lives in Vancouver with his wife, Rebecca and their two daughters. The couple have a son, Alex, who plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. Brewer also has two step-daughters, Kaitlin and Katelyn, who play for the Vancouver Canucks of the American League. He played for Prince George in the W Hockey League from 1994 to 1996. Brewer won the World Junior Championship in 1998 with the Kamloops Bantam AAA Jardine Blazers of the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association. In his junior season, Brewer recorded 38 points in only forty games. Brewer finished his WHL career with the Cougars, playing 63 games in the 1995–96 season. In 1999, he was selected for the PrinceGeorge Cougars’ all- time team in a Canadian hockey League promotion. Brewer played for the Edmonton Oilers, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Anaheim Ducks and the Maple Leafs during the 2004–05 NHL lockout. He spent parts of his sixteen-year NHL career with the Islanders, the Edmonton Edmonton Oilers and the Tampa Bay Lightning. Brewer was named the Western Hockey League West Second all-Star Team and the Western Conference roster for the 1998 WHL All-Star Game. In the final season with Prince George, Brewer finished statistically, in the final game of the season, with six points in the Cougar’s fifteen games.
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