{{short description|Canadian professional ice hockey player|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2013}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | alt = | name = Blaine Down | image = Blaine Down - 06.04.2012.jpg | image_size = 230px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|07|16}} | birth_place = Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 10 | weight_lb = 183 | position = Centre | shoots = Left | league = EBEL | team = EC VSV | former_teams = Bridgeport Sound Tigers<br>Ritten-Renon<br>Herning IK<br>SC Langenthal<br>ZSC Lions<br>Straubing Tigers<br>Iserlohn Roosters | draft = Undrafted | career_start = 2002 | career_end = }} '''Blaine Down''' (born July 16, 1982) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing with EC VSV in the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL).
==Playing career == Down played major junior hockey with the Barrie Colts in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) where he was active from 1999 to 2002, winning in 2000 the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions. He then played three years for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League (AHL), before joining Ritten Sport in Italy's Serie A in 2005. Then he played for two years in the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen with the Herning Blue Fox, helping the team win the 2007 and 2008 Danish championship. He signed with the ZSC Lions organization of the Swiss National League A starting with the 2008-09 season, also playing at Zurich's farm team, the GCK Lions of the National League B. He won the Champions Hockey League with the ZSC Lions in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.rettet-den-tagi.ch/pdf/down.pdf|title = Down klettert aus dem NLB-Tal auf Europas Olymp|last = |first = |date = |website = |publisher = |access-date = 2016-04-16|archive-date = September 23, 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180923085213/http://www.rettet-den-tagi.ch/pdf/down.pdf|url-status = dead}}</ref> In four years, he saw the ice in 74 NLA and 87 NLB contests, capturing the Swiss national championship with the ZSC Lions in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/sport/Blaine-Down-verlaesst-die-ZSC-Lions/story/29615852|title = Blaine Down verlässt die ZSC Lions| website = tagesanzeiger.ch/| date=June 11, 2012 |access-date = 2016-04-16}}</ref>
On June 10, 2012, the Straubing Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga announced the signing of Down to a one-year contract.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.eishockeynews.de/aktuell/artikel/2012/06/10/straubing-holt-kanadier-blaine-down-vom-schweizer-meister-zsc-lions.html | title = Straubing holt Kanadier Blaine Down vom Schweizer Meister ZSC Lions | publisher = Eishockeynews.de | date = 2012-06-10 | accessdate = 2012-06-10}}</ref> He would end up staying four years in Straubing, before being picked up by fellow DEL side Iserlohn Roosters prior to the 2016–17 season.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://iserlohn-roosters.de/2016/04/15/roosters-besetzten-weitere-auslaenderposition/|title = Iserlohn Roosters sign Blaine Down |last = gmbh|first = aliaz werbeagentur|date =April 15, 2016| accessdate=April 16, 2016| language=German}}</ref>
On May 19, 2018, Down left the DEL after 6 seasons to sign a one-year contract in the neighbouring EBEL with Austrian club, EC VSV.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ecvsv.at/del-power-fuer-den-ec-panaceo-vsv/ | title = DEL power for EC VSV | publisher = EC VSV | date=May 19, 2018| accessdate=May 19, 2018| language = German | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180520053811/http://www.ecvsv.at/del-power-fuer-den-ec-panaceo-vsv/ | archive-date = May 20, 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Down, Blaine}} Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Barrie Colts players Category:Bridgeport Sound Tigers players Category:Canadian ice hockey centres Category:GCK Lions players Category:Herning Blue Fox players Category:Iserlohn Roosters players Category:SC Langenthal players Category:Ice hockey people from Oshawa Category:Straubing Tigers players Category:Ritten Sport players Category:ZSC Lions players Category:21st-century Canadian sportsmen