Don Sweeney

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Don Sweeney
Date of birth 17th August 1966
place of birth St. Stephen , New Brunswick , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1984 , 8th lap, 166th position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
1984-1988 Harvard University
1988-2003 Boston Bruins
2003-2004 Dallas Stars

Donald Clarke Sweeney (born August 17, 1966 in St. Stephen , New Brunswick ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current official. Since May 2015 he has been General Manager of the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League , for which he had held various positions since summer 2006. During his career as a player, Sweeney was active for 15 years for the Boston Bruins and another for the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League between 1988 and 2004 on the position of defender . With the Canadian national team he won the gold medal at the 1997 World Cup .

Sweeney has been married to Canadian figure skater and two-time Olympian Christine Hough since 1999 .

Career

Sweeney was drafted by the Boston Bruins right after finishing high school . They selected him in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft in the eighth round in 166th place. The defender spent the next four years at Harvard University , where he played for the local ice hockey team in ECAC Hockey , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In his third year he won the division championship with the team.

After completing his fourth year of college, the Canadian finally switched to the organization of the Bruins, where he was first used by the Maine Mariners in the American Hockey League . During the 1988/89 season he made his debut for the Bruins in the NHL and developed into a fixed point on the defensive in these in the following 15 years. Sweeney completed a total of 1,052 regular season fixtures for the Boston Bruins - behind Ray Bourque and Johnny Bucyk - the third most in the history of the franchise . The defender had his most productive playing year in the 1992/93 season , when he scored a total of 34 scorer points in 84 games. At the end of his career, he moved to the 2003/04 season as a free agent for the Dallas Stars for a year before hanging up his skates.

Following his playing career, Sweeney returned to the Boston Bruins in 2006. There he was initially employed as Director of Player Development . A year later the post of Director of Hockey Operations followed . He held both positions until the summer of 2009, before he was promoted to assistant to then General Manager Peter Chiarelli . In this position Sweeney won with the Bruins at the end of the 2010/11 season the Stanley Cup , which he as a player had never been able to win.

For the 2014/15 season , Sweeney also received the powers as general manager of the Providence Bruins , Boston's farm team from the American Hockey League. After Chiarelli's dismissal in May 2015, Sweeney also took over the business as chief general manager of the Boston Bruins. In this role, he led the team to the final of the 2019 playoffs , but lost to the St. Louis Blues . Nevertheless, he received the NHL General Manager of the Year Award at the end of the season .

International

Sweeney took part with the Canadian national team in the 1997 World Cup in Finland after the Boston Bruins had not qualified for the play-offs for the first time since he was part of their team . The defender played all eleven tournament games for the Canadians in which he scored one goal and prepared three more. The tournament was crowned by winning the gold medal.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Harvard University ECAC 29 3 7th 10 30th
1985/86 Harvard University ECAC 31 4th 5 9 12
1986/87 Harvard University ECAC 34 7th 4th 11 22nd
1987/88 Harvard University ECAC 30th 6th 23 29 37
1987/88 Maine Mariners AHL - - - - - 6th 1 3 4th 0
1988/89 Boston Bruins NHL 36 3 5 8th 20th - - - - -
1988/89 Maine Mariners AHL 42 8th 17th 25th 24 - - - - -
1989/90 Boston Bruins NHL 58 3 5 8th 58 21st 1 5 6th 18th
1989/90 Maine Mariners AHL 11 0 8th 8th 8th - - - - -
1990/91 Boston Bruins NHL 77 8th 13 21st 67 19th 3 0 3 25th
1991/92 Boston Bruins NHL 75 3 11 14th 74 15th 0 0 0 10
1992/93 Boston Bruins NHL 84 7th 27 34 68 4th 0 0 0 4th
1993/94 Boston Bruins NHL 75 6th 15th 21st 50 12 2 1 3 4th
1994/95 Boston Bruins NHL 47 3 19th 22nd 24 5 0 0 0 4th
1995/96 Boston Bruins NHL 77 4th 24 28 42 5 0 2 2 6th
1996/97 Boston Bruins NHL 82 3 23 26th 39 - - - - -
1997/98 Boston Bruins NHL 59 1 15th 16 24 - - - - -
1998/99 Boston Bruins NHL 81 2 10 12 64 11 3 0 3 6th
1999/00 Boston Bruins NHL 81 1 13 14th 48 - - - - -
2000/01 Boston Bruins NHL 72 2 10 12 26th - - - - -
2001/02 Boston Bruins NHL 81 3 15th 18th 35 6th 0 1 1 2
2002/03 Boston Bruins NHL 67 3 5 8th 24 5 0 1 1 0
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 63 0 11 11 18th 5 0 0 0 2
NCAA overall 124 20th 39 59 101
AHL total 43 8th 25th 33 32 6th 1 3 4th 0
NHL overall 1115 52 221 273 681 108 9 10 19th 81

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1997 Canada WM 1st place, gold 11 1 3 4th 6th
Men overall 11 1 3 4th 6th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Sweeney, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sweeney, Donald Clarke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Stephen , New Brunswick