Bobby Sheehan

Bobby Sheehan
Date of birth	January 11, 1949
place of birth	Weymouth , Massachusetts , USA
size	173 cm
Weight	73 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1969 , 3rd lap, 32nd position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1966-1968	Halifax Junior Canadiens
1968-1969	St. Catharines Black Hawks
1969-1971	Canadiens de Montréal
1971-1972	California Golden Seals
1972-1973	New York Raiders
1973-1974	New York Golden Blades / Jersey Knights
1974-1975	Edmonton Oilers
1975-1976	Chicago Black Hawks
1976-1977	Detroit Red Wings
1977-1988	Indianapolis Racers
1978-1979	New Haven Nighthawks
1979	New York Rangers
1979-1981	Colorado Rockies
1981-1982	New Haven Nighthawks
1982-1983	Binghamton Whalers

Robert Richard "Bobby" Sheehan (born January 11, 1949 in Weymouth , Massachusetts ) is a retired American ice hockey player who played 325 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , California Golden Seals , Chicago in the course of his active career between 1968 and 1983 Black Hawks , Detroit Red Wings , New York Rangers , Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League and 241 games for the New York Raiders , New York Golden Blades and Jersey Knights , Edmonton Oilers and Indianapolis Racers in the World Hockey Association has contested on the position of the center . His cousin Charlie Coyle is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Sheehan, who was born in Weymouth , Massachusetts , spent part of his junior career between 1966 and 1968 with the Halifax Junior Canadiens in the Canadian junior league Maritime Junior A Hockey League . From there he moved in the summer of 1968 to the Ontario Hockey Association for the St. Catharines Black Hawks . There he reached with the team in the 1968/69 season the final of the J. Ross Robertson Cup , which was lost to the Canadien junior de Montréal . With a total of 108 scorer points in 62 missions, the center played a major role in this. The following summer he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1969 in the third round in 32nd place by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League and immediately put under contract.

After moving to the professional field in the summer of 1969, Sheehan spent the following two playing years in the service of the Canadiens de Montréal in the NHL and with their farm team , the Voyageurs de Montréal , in the American Hockey League . However, since he did not manage to meet the expectations of the Canadiens, they sold him to league rivals California Golden Seals in May 1971 . There he made his breakthrough in the NHL with 46 points in 78 games this season. With the establishment of the World Hockey Association for the 1972/73 season as a league competing with the NHL, however, new opportunities opened up for the American. After he was selected in February 1972 in the WHA General Player Draft by the New England Whalers , he joined the New York Raiders in the league's premier season. Previously, New England had traded its transfer rights for a first- and four-round suffrage in the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft . During his time in New York, his NHL transfer rights were transferred to the Chicago Black Hawks in December 1972 . Unimpressed by this, Sheehan collected 88 points in his first WHA season. In the next game year the striker was the franchise of the New York Golden Blades and Jersey Knights active, had left the Raiders out. With another change in exchange for Bob Falkenberg in March 1974, he ended the season with the Edmonton Oilers in the WHA. Sheehan also ran into the Oilers in the 1974/75 season .

In the summer of 1975, the attacker pulled back to the NHL, where he ran from then on for the Chicago Black Hawks, who had tied him for a season. He then moved to the 1976/77 season as a free agent for the Detroit Red Wings . After he was there in the AHL again in the course of the season and he had not been able to establish himself permanently in the Detroit squad, he returned again to the WHA. After a few games for the Indianapolis Racers , he moved to the American Hockey League for the New Haven Nighthawks . Through this he was able to recommend himself in October 1978 for a contract with the New York Rangers from the NHL, where he - after he had spent the entire 1978/79 season with the Nighthawks and had been appointed to the AHL Second All-Star Team - in The course of the Stanley Cup playoffs debuted in 1979 and reached the final series. The 15 playoff appearances should remain his only for the Rangers, however, as he was given up to the Colorado Rockies after the game year .

This let him initially continue to play in New Haven, but also with the Fort Worth Texans in the Central Hockey League . In the two playing years up to the summer of 1981, he ran 71 times for the Rockies in the NHL, before moving to the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent in the summer of 1981 . This let him go on the ice with the New Haven Nighthawks in the AHL and only called him four times in the NHL squad. His last professional station was in the game year 1982/83, the Binghamton Whalers from the AHL, before he declared his active career in the summer of 1983 at the age of 34 for an end.

International

Sheehan played for his home country at the 1981 World Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden . He collected two scorer points in eight tournament appearances and reached fifth place with the team.

Achievements and Awards

• 1979 AHL Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1968/69	St. Catharines Black Hawks	OHA		44	44	41	85	6th		18th	10	13	23	2
1969/70	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		16	2	1	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
1969/70	Voyageurs de Montréal	AHL		46	16	27	43	8th		8th	2	2	4th	4th
1970/71	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		29	6th	5	11	2		6th	0	0	0	0
1970/71	Voyageurs de Montréal	AHL		35	24	21st	45	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1971/72	California Golden Seals	NHL		78	20th	26th	46	12		-	-	-	-	-
1972/73	New York Raiders	WHA		75	35	53	88	17th		-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	New York Golden Blades / Jersey Knights	WHA		50	12	8th	20th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	Edmonton Oilers	WHA		10	1	3	4th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	Edmonton Oilers	WHA		77	19th	39	58	16		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		78	11	20th	31	8th		4th	0	0	0	0
1976/77	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		34	5	4th	9	2		-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Rhode Island Reds	AHL		36	28	26th	54	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Indianapolis Racers	WHA		29	8th	7th	15th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		43	13	26th	39	14th		15th	7th	5	12	4th
1978/79	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		70	33	48	81	26th		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	New York Rangers	NHL		-	-	-	-	-		15th	4th	3	7th	8th
1979/80	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		13	8th	7th	15th	2		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Fort Worth Texans	CHL		31	18th	20th	38	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Colorado Rockies	NHL		30th	3	4th	7th	2		-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Colorado Rockies	NHL		41	1	3	4th	10		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		4th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		74	21st	17th	38	32		4th	0	2	2	0
1982/83	Binghamton Whalers	AHL		48	7th	18th	25th	6th		5	1	1	2	0
AHL total				365	150	190	340	120		32	10	10	20th	8th
WHA total				241	75	110	185	53		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				310	48	63	111	40		25th	4th	3	7th	8th

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 1981

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1981	United States	WM	5th place		8th	1	1	2	0
Men overall					8th	1	1	2	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Bobby Sheehan at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Bobby Sheehan at eliteprospects.com (English)