Harper Cotie – BrockvilleDaily.ca
The Braves are off to a 2-0 start
At age 36, Auckland, New Zealand native Marty Lee has already accomplished a lot in the game of hockey.
His career as a player took him all around the world, including an opportunity to represent his home country on the world stage where we won a gold medal at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) U-20 Division III World Championships in the 2007-08 season.
Marty’s coaching career involves time overseas as well starting with the Vierumäki Sports Institute of Finland, where he learned under some of hockey’s brightest minds from the Finnish National Hockey Program. For over nine years now, Marty has successful owned and operated his own program out of Montreal called, ML Hockey Development.
After spending time in various coaching roles with the Jr. B Tikis and the Brockville Braves, Marty was excited to find out this past summer from Braves co-owner Dustin Traylen that he would be the team’s head coach and general manager for the 2025-26 season.
With wins over Carleton Place and Nepean, Marty’s been impressed with their start.
“2-0 start, always good to get off on the right foot there. We have a really good group. We’ve got a lot of talent. We’ve had some talks in the room which were good. The boys are kind of set on a mission, they want to have a really good year this year, coming out guns a blazing.”
Marty expects a hard game tonight (Sep. 26) against the Pembroke Lumber Kings.
“We expect the Lumber Kings to come out full force as they do, it’s been a long rivalry between Brockville and Pembroke, so you know the boys are dialed in there . We’ll come out hard straight away in the first, we always pride ourselves on making it a tough place to play in Brockville and playing against Pembroke there’s no changes there.”
Puck drop is 7:30 at the Brockville Memorial Centre.
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