Interview w/ Dave Brown
Dropping the Gloves
The Nation Network
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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I got to sit down with the legendary Dave Brown and talk about winning the up with the oilers, fighting every tough guy in his era, rooming with a rookie named Eric Lindros and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | all right |
| 0:02.6 | all right |
| 0:04.7 | all right |
| 0:20.7 | all right we got Dave Brown joining the show today, and this is a treat for me because, Dave, I've had, |
| 0:28.6 | my show is called Drop in the Gloves. I fought. You were a better player than I was. I'll just admit that, |
| 0:34.6 | begrudgingly. But I've had, recently, I had Joey Kosheron. I had Randy McKay. I had |
| 0:41.3 | Craig Cox. I had Marty McSorley. I've had, you know, kind of the who's who of Stu Grimpsons |
| 0:47.3 | been on the show. And I've been trying to track you down. And I finally got your info. And the common |
| 0:53.6 | thing was, I always asked the guys, who was the |
| 0:57.0 | toughest guy you ever fought or who was one of the tougher guys in your generation? |
| 1:01.6 | Everybody said you. You were always on the list. It's a short list. And I know you grimace. |
| 1:05.9 | You don't like hearing it because you're probably a super humble guy. Just like everybody else, |
| 1:10.7 | you had to get your wife to sign you on for this interview because you're just a super humble guy. Just like everybody else, you had to get your wife to sign you on for this interview |
| 1:13.2 | because you're just a dumb meathead like me who doesn't know how to work technology. |
| 1:17.3 | But it's a badge of honor because I fought, you know, just like you, I obviously went after you. |
| 1:23.8 | And I think the league was a little bit softer in my age before, you know, |
| 1:28.3 | when, when you were playing. But is it cool? You know, is it like a neat thing to hear when |
| 1:34.3 | you hear all these legendary guys when I asked them, who's the toughest guy? Who were you |
| 1:39.4 | worried about? And Dave, resoundingly, your name is on that list. Well, I mean, I never looked at it like that. And I don't think there was just one guy that was a tough guy there. And I didn't look at it. Like, maybe somebody else's perspective, but that's not mine. I mean, I was just like everybody else. I was on a team. you know, even back then you might even have a |
| 2:01.4 | couple heavyweights. So yeah, I was just one of those guys and just trying to do my job every |
| 2:06.4 | night. I didn't consider to be the toughest guy in the league. I was just trying to go out there |
| 2:11.7 | and do my job and do the best I could for my team. And, you know, it's, it's, um there was there was tough guys on every team that you |
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