DETROIT – After his Friday morning practice, Jason Brown held court in the mixed zone.
The 24-year-old skater searched for words to describe how his relocation to Toronto last spring reinvigorated his career and why, suddenly, losing out on a 2018 Olympic berth didn’t hurt quite so much.
“It was kind of like my nightmare happened, and I survived,” he said. “I’m not afraid anymore.”
Two-time Olympian Mirai Nagasu – fourth overall in Vancouver in 2010, left off of the U.S. Olympic team in 2014, only to fight her way back in 2018 and win a team bronze medal – got right to the point.