Vincent Dunn Attempts To Bring Old Time Hockey Back

This is the final article of a four part series introducing new players to the organization: the first featuring Tobias Lindberg, the next with Nick Paul, the third with defenseman Ben Harpur, and now the final one focusing on forward Vincent Dunn.

While gathering some notes concerning Vincent, I realized that in researching a player I've only witnessed playing one game for Binghamton late in the spring of 2013, I've become brainwashed to the modern day hockey era. Not so sure if it's a favorable stance to be associated with, but we all as fans have seemed to adapt to changes and I have too somewhat.

In those notes, I stumbled upon this gem when he was part of the Gatineau Olympiques provided by a press release by the QMJHL following his five game suspension on Jan 1st, 2014 against a player for the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada;

The Armada player was battling an opponent for the puck along the boards at the face-off level in his zone.
He was stooped over, his head at the height of the boards.
The player at fault was near the goal.
He took three to four strides, glided for several feet and hit his opponent who was in a vulnerable position and wasn’t able to see him.
He headed towards his opponent at an angle and hit his upper body and head simultaneously and with force.
The player at fault made no effort to minimize the contact or play the puck.
His opponent was injured.
This was not the first offense of the player at fault.

I'm not at all in favor of condoning his actions here, and an intent to injure will not draw any favorable reviews in today's game. He's at least twenty years late to the party.

However, a lot has been said about Dunn, as he was drafted by Ottawa in the fifth round (138th overall) in 2013, including in an excellent piece concerning his playing time by a former colleague of mine Alex Quevillon (@A_Quevillon) at SenShot, in an article here. Like Alex mentioned in his article, "Dunn’s antics weren’t enough to stop the Senators from drafting the local product in the fifth round of the 2013 draft". Not only that, Bryan Murray signed him soon after.

Then, Rimouski Oceanic head coach Serge Beausoleil pushed his team to winning the President's Cup last season in five games over the Quebec Remparts. Dunn didn't see any post season action and his coach had this to share before the start of the playoffs;

"Dunn is no longer part of the team's plan," Oceanic GM Serge Beausoleil told L'Avantage.qc.ca in French Saturday. "We solved this Friday morning. He was very sick last week after his two-game suspension. This week, he has struggled to return to the standards that the guys can play and you could see that the passion was gone. That's all I'll say about it and he was relieved of his duties Friday morning." ...

~ March 22, 2015 Bruce Garrioch Ottawa Sun

Entering his second year of a three year entry level deal signed last Oct, Dunn might find himself breaking into the pros for the Evansville IceMen of the ECHL level depending on roster moves before making the jump to the AHL.