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Bob Sweeney (ice hockey)

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Bob Sweeney
Born (1964-01-25) January 25, 1964 (age 60)
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

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

Career

Sweeney was born in Concord, Massachusetts, but grew up in Boxborough, Massachusetts.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

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]

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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