Shawn McEachern

Shawn Kenneth McEachern (born February 28, 1969) is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He is the current head men's ice hockey coach at Suffolk University, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Biography As a youth, McEachern played in the 1981 and 1982 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Boston.

During his stint as a professional, he tallied 254 goals and 317 assists during a 13-year NHL career with the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Ottawa Senators and Atlanta Thrashers. He scored over 30 goals in two different seasons and his best point total came in 2000–01, when he notched 32 goals and 40 assists for the Ottawa Senators. He won a Stanley Cup championship in 1992 with the Pittsburgh Penguins. On August 27, 2006, he announced his retirement.

Before entering the NHL, McEachern was a standout ice hockey player at Boston University and at Matignon High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he won two state championships. He has previously served as an assistant hockey coach at University of Massachusetts Lowell, as well as Northeastern University and Salem State University. He is also the coach for the East Coast Wizards U16 team in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Awards and honors Award Year All-Hockey East Second team 1989–90 All-Hockey East First Team 1990–91 AHCA East First-Team All-American 1990–91 Hockey East All-Tournament Team 1991 Stanley Cup championship (Pittsburgh) 1992

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1985–86 Matignon High School HS-MA 20 32 20 52 — — — — — — 1986–87 Matignon High School HS-MA 16 29 28 57 — — — — — — 1987–88 Matignon High School HS-MA 22 52 40 92 — — — — — — 1988–89 Boston University HE 36 20 28 48 32 — — — — — 1989–90 Boston University HE 43 25 31 56 78 — — — — — 1990–91 Boston University HE 41 34 48 82 43 — — — — — 1991–92 United States Intl 57 26 23 49 38 — — — — — 1991–92 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 15 0 4 4 0 19 2 7 9 4 1992–93 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 84 28 33 61 46 12 3 2 5 10 1993–94 Los Angeles Kings NHL 49 8 13 21 24 — — — — — 1993–94 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 27 12 9 21 10 6 1 0 1 2 1994–95 Kiekko-Espoo SM-l 8 1 3 4 6 — — — — — 1994–95 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 44 13 13 26 22 11 0 2 2 8 1995–96 Boston Bruins NHL 82 24 29 53 34 5 2 1 3 8 1996–97 Ottawa Senators NHL 65 11 20 31 18 7 2 0 2 8 1997–98 Ottawa Senators NHL 81 24 24 48 42 11 0 4 4 8 1998–99 Ottawa Senators NHL 77 31 25 56 46 4 2 0 2 6 1999–2000 Ottawa Senators NHL 69 29 22 51 24 6 0 3 3 4 2000–01 Ottawa Senators NHL 82 32 40 72 62 4 0 2 2 2 2001–02 Ottawa Senators NHL 80 15 31 46 52 12 0 4 4 2 2002–03 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 46 10 16 26 28 — — — — — 2003–04 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 82 17 38 55 76 — — — — — 2004–05 Malmö IF SEL 6 0 1 1 14 — — — — — 2005–06 Boston Bruins NHL 28 2 6 8 22 — — — — — 2005–06 Providence Bruins AHL 10 2 4 6 6 — — — — — NHL totals 911 256 323 579 506 97 12 25 37 62

International Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM 1991 United States WC 10 3 2 5 6 1992 United States OG 8 1 0 1 10 1996 United States WCH 1 0 1 1 0 Senior totals 19 4 3 7 16