#Steve downie professional#

Steve left the team, requesting a trade, and was eventually traded to the Peterborough Petes in exchange for Peter Aston. was suspended by the OHL and later fired by the team, and the team was fined $35,000 by the OHL.

#Steve downie professional#

The team suspended Steve for five games and Aliu for one game he was told to undergo professional counseling.

The incident stemmed from 16-year-old Aliu's refusal to take part in a hazing incident, where he would have been forced to stand naked in a cramped bus bathroom with other rookies. Not long after being drafted, he was suspended for five games early in the 2005–06 OHL season for an on-ice altercation with teammate Akim Aliu.ĭuring a practice on September 28, 2005, Downie cross-checked Aliu in the face without warning, knocking out three of his teeth, and then proceeded to fight his younger teammate. Steve was selected in the first round, 29th overall) in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers. He was drafted in the first round (16th overall) by the Windsor Spitfires in the 2003 OHL Priority Selection. In April of 2002, he led his Express Bantam team to the All-Ontario AAA Championship. Steve played minor ice hockey for the York-Simcoe Express AAA organization of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA), and competed in the 2001 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with them.