Dean Brown (born in

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on November 3, 1961) is a Canadian hockey commentator. He is known for being the main

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for the

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since the team's inaugural season, at first on Ottawa's talk-radio station 580 CFRA in the franchise's first years, and since 1998 on TSN 1200 radio.

Early career

Prior to becoming the voice of the Senators, Brown was a news anchor at

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and at

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. Before moving into sports and moving to 580 CFRA in Ottawa in 1983. Brown later became the station's morning sports anchor, sports director and play-by-play voice of the now defunct

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franchise. Brown was the radio play-by-play voice of the 1989 Grey Cup and was the youngest broadcaster ever selected to perform those duties on the national and international broadcast of the CFL's championship game.

Ottawa Senators

Brown currently does play-by-play of Senators games on TSN Radio 1200 alongside analyst Gord Wilson. Brown previously did games on Sportsnet East alongside former New York Islanders

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. In April 2014, Brown signed a 7-year contract with TSN to do play-by-play of all Senators games on TSN 1200. He was previously paired with former

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until the 2002–03 season during Senators games on both A-Channel and Sportsnet. He is known for his distinctive way of yelling, "Scores!", as well as for his commonly used phrases such as "Scram''ble!''", "Winds, fires" "''Oh'' what a save by (goaltender)!", "Oh my heavens!", "(certain player) blows a tire", and calling the trapezoidal area behind the net where goaltenders may not play the puck, the "forbidden zone". Not to mention, he came up with the clever "sudden victory overtime" phrase. The reason for this is that the losing team still gets a point, therefore it is no longer "sudden death".

National broadcasting assignments

From November 1998 until

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acquired the NHL rights in 2014, Brown also did play-by-play on CBC's ''

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'', usually on telecasts from Ottawa. Brown also occasionally worked as a football play-by-play broadcaster for the ''

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'' and was a part-time general sports reporter for TSN and the now defunct

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References

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