Bob Sweeney (ice hockey)

Robert Emmett Sweeney (born January 25, 1964) is a retired American professional ice hockey center.

Bob Sweeney
Born (1964-01-25) January 25, 1964
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Height 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb)
Position Center/Right Wing
Shot Right
Played for Boston Bruins
Buffalo Sabres
New York Islanders
Calgary Flames
National team  United States
NHL Draft 123rd overall, 1982
Boston Bruins
Playing career 1986–2001

Career

Sweeney was born in Concord, Massachusetts, but grew up in Boxborough, Massachusetts. As a youth, he played in the 1976 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Assabet Valley.[1] He was drafted out of high school by the Boston Bruins in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, and went on to play four years at Boston College. He made his NHL debut in the 1986–87 season, but spent most of the year with the Bruins AHL affiliate the Moncton Golden Flames. The 1987–88 season was Sweeney's first full year, a season where Boston traveled to the Stanley Cup Finals only to be swept by the Edmonton Oilers.

Following six seasons with Boston, Sweeney was claimed off waivers by the Buffalo Sabres in 1992 and then by the New York Islanders in 1995. After being traded to the Calgary Flames during the 1995–96 season Sweeney retired from the NHL. He spent the next season in the IHL before traveling across the Atlantic to play in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1997 until 2001. He is currently the Executive Director of the Boston Bruins Foundation.

Awards and honors
Award Year
All-Hockey East Second Team 1984–85 [2]
AHCA East Second-Team All-American 1984–85 [3]
  • Bob Sweeney Named Director of Development for the Boston Bruins Foundation - 2007

Personal

Bob Sweeney is the brother-in-law of Madeline Amy Sweeney, one of the flight attendants on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the north tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks.[4]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs
    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1979–80 Acton-Boxborough Regional High School HS-MA
1980–81 Acton-Boxborough Regional High School HS-MA
1981–82 Acton-Boxborough Regional High School HS-MA 46 44 36 80 — — — — —
1982–83 Boston College ECAC 30 17 11 28 10 — — — — —
1983–84 Boston College ECAC 23 14 7 21 10 — — — — —
1984–85 Boston College HE 44 32 32 64 43 — — — — —
1985–86 Boston College HE 41 15 24 39 52 — — — — —
1986–87 Boston Bruins NHL 14 2 4 6 21 3 0 0 0 0
1986–87 Moncton Golden Flames AHL 58 29 26 55 81 4 0 2 2 13
1987–88 Boston Bruins NHL 80 22 23 45 73 23 6 8 14 66
1988–89 Boston Bruins NHL 75 14 14 28 99 10 2 4 6 19
1989–90 Boston Bruins NHL 70 22 24 46 93 20 0 2 2 30
1990–91 Boston Bruins NHL 80 15 33 48 115 17 4 2 6 45
1991–92 Boston Bruins NHL 63 6 14 20 103 14 1 0 1 25
1991–92 Maine Mariners AHL 1 1 0 1 0 — — — — —
1992–93 Buffalo Sabres NHL 80 21 26 47 118 8 2 2 4 8
1993–94 Buffalo Sabres NHL 60 11 14 25 94 1 0 0 0 0
1994–95 Buffalo Sabres NHL 45 5 4 9 18 5 0 0 0 4
1995–96 New York Islanders NHL 66 6 6 12 59 — — — — —
1995–96 Calgary Flames NHL 6 1 1 2 6 2 0 0 0 0
1996–97 Québec Rafales IHL 69 10 21 31 120 9 2 0 2 8
1997–98 Revierlöwen Oberhausen DEL 27 9 4 13 77 — — — — —
1997–98 Frankfurt Lions DEL 20 7 8 15 32 7 1 3 4 6
1998–99 Frankfurt Lions DEL 46 6 21 27 30 1 0 1 1 8
1999–2000 München Barons DEL 37 9 21 30 63 12 3 5 8 20
2000–01 München Barons DEL 33 3 11 14 50 11 1 0 1 8
NHL totals 639 125 163 288 799 103 15 18 33 197
DEL totals 163 34 65 99 252 31 5 9 14 42

International
Year Team Event   GP G A Pts PIM
1999 United States WC Q 3 1 1 2 0
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References
  1. "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  2. "Hockey East All-Teams". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  3. "Men's Ice Hockey Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
  4. Rosen, Dan (September 9, 2011). "Ten years later, 9/11 still resonates in hockey". NHL.com. Retrieved 2011-09-10.


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