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
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International
- 1997 gold medal at the world championship
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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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 | |
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1997 | Canada | WM | 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 )
Web links
- Don Sweeney at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Don Sweeney at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Don Sweeney at hockeydb.com (English)
Goalkeeper:
Jaroslav Halák |
Tuukka Rask
Defender:
Brandon Carlo |
Zdeno Chára ( C ) |
Connor Clifton |
Matt Grzelcyk |
Steven Kampfer |
Torey pitcher |
Charlie McAvoy |
Kevan Miller |
John Moore
attacker:
Patrice Bergeron ( A ) |
Anders Bjork |
Charlie Coyle |
Jake DeBrusk |
Ondřej Kaše |
David Krejčí ( A ) |
Karson Kuhlman |
Sean Kuraly |
Pär Lindholm |
Brad Marchand |
Joakim Nordström |
David Pastrňák |
Brett Ritchie |
Nick Ritchie |
Chris Wagner
Head Coach: Bruce Cassidy Assistant Coach : Kevin Dean | Jay Pandolfo | Joe Sacco General Manager: Don Sweeney
personal data | |
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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 |