Rob Shearer

Rob Shearer
Date of birth	19th October 1976
place of birth	Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1993-1996	Windsor Spitfires
1996-2001	Hershey Bears
2001-2002	TPS Turku
2002-2005	Polar bears Berlin
2005-2011	EHC Linz
2011–2012	Reading Royals
2012	EC VSV

Rob Shearer (born October 19, 1976 in Kitchener , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with the EC VSV in the Austrian ice hockey league.

Career

Rob Shearer began his career as an ice hockey player with the Windsor Spitfires , for which he was active from 1993 to 1996 in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League . During this period he received on October 5, 1995 a contract as a free agent with the Colorado Avalanche , for which he was in the 2000/01 season his debut in the National Hockey League on the ice, in which he remained pointless and punished. The remaining time in the five years from 1996 to 2001, in which the center was active in the Colorado Avalanche franchise, he spent with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Hershey Bears , with whom he won the Calder in the 1996/97 season Cup won. In the summer of 2001 Shearer moved to Europe, where he initially played for the reigning Finnish champions TPS Turku in the SM-liiga for a year before he was active for the Eisbären Berlin in the DEL from 2002 to 2005 . With the polar bears, the Canadian was first runner-up in 2004, before winning the championship with the capital city in the following year . Following this success, the former NHL player joined the EHC Linz from the Austrian Ice Hockey League , for which he played until 2011.

In the summer of 2011 he returned to North America and received a contract with the Reading Royals from the ECHL . In January 2012 he asked to terminate his contract and returned to Europe, where he was signed by the EC VSV .

Achievements and Awards

• 1997 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
• 2004 German runner-up with the Eisbären Berlin
• 2005 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	2	0	0	0	0
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
DEL main round	3	151	39	62	101	103
DEL playoffs	3	32	6th	12	18th	18th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Rob Shearer at hockeydb.com (English)
• Rob Shearer at eurohockey.com
• Rob Shearer at legendsofhockey.net (English)