Steve Downie

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve Downie
Occupation	Hockey Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 3, 1987(1987-04-03)
Age	37
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Aries

Steve Downie Biography

Steve Downie is one of the most popular and richest Hockey Player who was born on April 3, 1987 in Canada. Canadian right-winger who is famous for his stints playing for NHL teams such as The Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Colorado Avalanche. He has been awarded gold medals for Canada during the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

He was on the team with Canadian player He was teammates with Canadian centre Ryan O’Reilly in Colorado. in Colorado.

Downie grew up in Holland Landing, Ontario, the younger son of Anne and the late John Downie. He has one sibling, brother Greg, and attended Sacred Heart High School in Newmarket. He played minor ice hockey for the York-Simcoe Express AAA organization of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA), and competed in the 2001 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with them. Downie led his Express Bantam team to the All-Ontario AAA Championship in April 2002. He later attended St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Windsor, Ontario, in 2004. He was drafted in the first round, 16th overall, by the Windsor Spitfires in the 2003 OHL Priority Selection.

Downie was selected in the first round, 29th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers. Not long after being drafted, Downie was suspended for five games early in the 2005–06 OHL season for an on-ice altercation with teammate Akim Aliu. During a practice on September 28, 2005, Downie cross-checked Aliu in the face without warning, knocking out three of his teeth, and then proceeded to fight his younger teammate. The incident stemmed from 16-year-old Aliu’s refusal to take part in a hazing incident, where he would have been forced to stand naked in a cramped bus bathroom with other rookies. The team suspended Downie for five games and Aliu for one, and Downie was told to undergo professional counseling. Spitfires Head Coach Moe Mantha Jr. was suspended by the OHL and later fired by the team, and the team was fined $35,000 by the OHL. Downie left the team, requesting a trade, and was eventually traded to the Peterborough Petes in exchange for Peter Aston. In 2020, Aliu would reflect on the incident in an opinion piece entitled “Hockey Is Not For Everyone”. Aliu stated he viewed the attack as being racially motivated, calling Downie a “racist sociopath” and further remarking “He looked at me and saw a black boy with a weird accent — and didn’t like me because of it. I was attacked because of the color of my skin.”

The sister Greg has also been a professional hockey player. His father John passed away in the year 1996.

Steve Downie Net Worth

Steve Downie is one of the richest Hockey Player from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Downie 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a player in Sacred Heart High School in Newmarket, Ontario and won an All-Ontario AAA title with York-Simcoe Express in 2002.

Otosclerosis is a hearing disorder that has rendered him deaf in the right ear.

Steve Downie (born April 3, 1987) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado Avalanche, Pittsburgh Penguins and Arizona Coyotes, with the Flyers having drafted him in the first round, 29th overall, in 2005.

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After attending Flyers’ training camp in the Fall and playing in several pre- season games, however, the club returned Downie to Peterborough. Downie returned to the international stage yet again in December 2006, participating in the 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Leksand and Mora, Sweden. On January 5, 2007, Canada won the gold medal for the first time on European ice since 1997 with a 4–2 victory over Russia. Throughout the whole tournament, however, Downie was involved in OHL trade rumours. On January 8, 2007, Downie was indeed traded to the Kitchener Rangers in exchange for Yves Bastien, the Rangers’ second-round picks in the 2007 and 2008 OHL Priority Selections, as well as the 2007 second-round pick of the Brampton Battalion.

Facts & Trivia

Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Hockey Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Steve Downie celebrates birthday on April 3 of every year.

In the 2009–10 season, with the intention to curb his on-ice aggression positively, whilst under the influence of former agitator and then-Lightning Head Coach Rick Tocchet, Downie played his first full season in the NHL and recorded a career-high 22 goals and 46 points. Downie also became the first player since Theoren Fleury in 2002 to score 20 goals and record over 200 penalty minutes in a single season.

Why did Steve Downie retire?

During a game against the New York Rangers on February 9, 2008, Downie was hip-checked by Rangers defenceman Fedor Tyutin, and his skate hit linesman Pat Dapuzzo in the face. Dapuzzo required 60 stitches to reattach his nose, suffered ten facial fractures and was forced to retire as a result.

Is Steve Downie deaf?

Yes, Steve Downie is deaf in his right ear and halted today’s game due to lost hearing aid | RSN.

Is Steve Downie still playing hockey?

Downie, who played 26 games for the Coyotes last season before being placed on waivers and is currently unsigned , started his diatribe by going after Arizona and their head coach, Dave Tippett.

Does Akim Aliu still play hockey?

Akim Aliu
NHL Draft| 56th overall, 2007 Chicago Blackhawks
Playing career| 2008–2020

Where was Akim Aliu born?

Okene, Nigeria