Simon Watson

Simon Watson is a retired Canadian ice hockey centre. Watson played professionally in the Central Hockey League for the Lubbock Cotton Kings, Rocky Mountain Rage, and finally the Missouri Mavericks. He played his Junior Hockey for the Waterloo Siskins of the MWJHL and his collegiate hockey at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. On August 5, 2011, Watson retired as a player and became the Mavericks' Assistant Director of Hockey Operations. On May 9, 2013, he was named to the coaching staff of the KC Mavs Elite Midget team. In July 2014, Missouri Mavericks fans voted Watson the second-greatest Mavericks player in a poll of the Top-10 Mavericks players from the first 5 years of the team's existence.