reveals how much he loves gaming, an obsession that began right around the time he left for the Waterloo Blackhawks of the USHL in 2008.
"When I went away to juniors, I feel like that's when you have more time on your hands, you're away from home, you're not with your same core group of friends that you were in high school," Brown said. "That was kind of our way to stay together."
A mix of Crash Bandicoot and various sports games pulled him in, establishing a passion he would carry throughout his various levels of hockey. The rise of Twitch, a popular live streaming video platform, helped bring Brown into the video game spotlight.
"I had known about Twitch, I'd seen it before and seen people stream on it. It never clicked, really, not until last year," he said. "My brother and I were playing and we said, 'What if we stream? Wouldn't it be cool?'"
When he first started streaming, Brown said Lightning fans made up his audience. Eventually, he saw other fans popping in, growing his following and prompting him to use his stream for more than broadcasting video games.
"We thought about what we can do beyond just streaming, just watching Twitch and that's when we started working with #HockeyIsForEveryone and started donating money to them from the profits on streaming," he said.
To prep for his streams, Brown brings plenty of gear on the road - "I'm probably traveling with more electronics than clothes these days," he quipped - and doubles of most of the important equipment. He can control the conditions better at home than at a team hotel, but the set-up is generally the same - a laptop for streaming and a separate one for gaming, his Xbox, batteries, cords and Ethernet cables.
His passion doesn't come without some good-natured ribbing from his wife,
