Ottawa 67's Jeff Brown, on 'horrible' night coaching against his son, Windsor Spitfires' Logan Brown

It's rare for a father and son to go head-to-head in the Ontario Hockey League. One suspects it is rarer still to get such a candid take on what that is really like than what  Ottawa 67's coach Jeff Brown offered after coaching against his son, 16-year-old Windsor Spitfires centre Logan Brown.

The father and son dynamic in hockey gets romanticized quite a bit in Canada, which tends to gloss over the stress involved in seeing a child try to make his way in a competitive, often cutthroat enterprise. It's only exacerbated when the priorities of coaching and parenting are put in conflict. A lot of credit is due to Jeff Brown for letting people in on that reality after last Friday's Windsor-Ottawa game, where his team banked an 8-4 win over the Spitfires and Logan Brown, a 6-foot-5 centre who's drawn some flattering comparisons to NHL greats.

"It was horrible, honestly, it was terrible, it was no fun, I didn't enjoy it," Jeff Brown, whose youngest child Caden Brown is a 67's off-ice helper, said in response to a question from Ottawa Sun reporter Chris Hofley. "It's so hard because you cheer so much for your son and here you are, coaching against him, 'geez, I hope he does well but I hope he doesn't do too well.'

"To be honest with you, I didn't enjoy it at all. I told Rychs [Windsor general manager and vice-president Warren Rychel] , 'why don't we both take a point and go out for dinner?' Could you imagine if he played for a Kingston or a Peterborough or a Belleville, a [Eastern Division] team that we're up against all the time?"

Got to like the way that the family Brown acknowledged the storyline around an otherwise nondescript non-conference game, but didn't offer vanilla quotes.

The Ottawa Citizen's Don Campbell noted it was only the third time that an OHL player has faced a team that includes his son. Usually, there is an understanding that a coach, general manager or owner will be allowed to select his son in the draft at a slot deemed appropriate to his level of potential and talent. Currently, there's one such combo in the OHL, with Barrie Colts coach (and Hockey Hall of Famer) Dale Hawerchuk having his son Ben Hawerchuk in the lineup.

Logan Brown, whom the Spitfires acquired in the summer after his rights were first snapped up by the Niagara IceDogs, was coached by his father throughout his minor hockey days in the St. Louis area. The hulking centre is fifth in OHL rookie scoring with 23 points across 34 games for a young Windsor team, which is also tops among 16-year-old 'true freshmen.' While he didn't get a point against Ottawa, Brown has eight points in as many games since the end of the OHL's holiday break.

Neate Sager is a writer for Yahoo! Canada Sports. Follow him on Twitter @neatebuzzthenet.