Brian Edward Kinsella is a retired Canadian ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player. Drafted in 1974 by the Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals

The Washington Capitals are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Since their founding in 1974, "The Caps" have won one conference championship to reach the 1998 Stanley Cup...

 of the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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 and Phoenix Roadrunners

Phoenix Roadrunners (WHA)

The Phoenix Roadrunners were a team in the now defunct World Hockey Association from 1974 to 1977. They played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona...

 of the World Hockey Association

World Hockey Association

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, Kinsella played only ten games in the NHL and played most of his hockey career in the minors.

Brian is now the hockey coach at St. Francis de Sales High School in Toledo, OH. In his first season he led the Knights to a Final Four berth in the OHSAA Ice Hockey State Tournament.

External links

• Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com