Shane O'Brien (ice hockey player)

Shane O'Brien
Date of birth	August 9, 1983
place of birth	Port Hope , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 8th round, 250th position Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
2000-2002	Kingston Frontenacs
2002-2003	Toronto St. Michael's Majors
2003-2005	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
2005-2006	Portland Pirates
2006-2007	Anaheim Ducks
2007-2008	Tampa Bay Lightning
2008-2010	Vancouver Canucks
2010-2011	Nashville Predators
2011-2013	Colorado Avalanche
2013-2014	Calgary Flames Abbotsford Heat
2014-2015	Florida Panthers San Antonio Rampage
2015-2016	San Diego Gulls
2017	Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho
2017-2018	EHC Linz

Shane O'Brien (born August 9, 1983 in Port Hope , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 577 games for the Anaheim Ducks , Tampa Bay Lightning , Vancouver Canucks , Nashville Predators during his active career between 2000 and 2018 , Colorado Avalanche , Calgary Flames and Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . O'Brien embodied the Enforcer player type .

Career

Shane O'Brien in action against # 28 Kyle Chipchura

The 1.91 m tall defender began his career with the Kingston Frontenacs and the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , before becoming the 250th player in the eighth round of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft selected.

Initially, the left-shot was for the Anaheim farm team , the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and from the 2005/06 season the Portland Pirates , in the American Hockey League on the ice, during the 2006/07 season he was promoted to the NHL squad of the Ducks , for which he played his first game on October 6, 2006 against the Los Angeles Kings . On October 18, he scored his first NHL goal against the Detroit Red Wings , after an assist and a fight against Brad Norton he managed the so-called Gordie Howe hat trick for the first time in his career .

On February 24, 2007 O'Brien was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning along with a third-round pick for the NHL Entry Draft 2007 , in return the Ducks received goalkeeper Gerald Coleman and a first-round pick. After about a year and a half on the US southeast coast, he was given up in a four-player transfer deal to the Vancouver Canucks .

In July 2011, the defense attorney signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche .

On June 27, 2013, O'Brien was transferred to the Calgary Flames in an exchange of the Colorado Avalanche along with teammate David Jones against Alex Tanguay and Cory Sarich . In Calgary, O'Brien only stayed a year before joining the Florida Panthers in June 2014 . There he played mainly in the AHL with the San Antonio Rampage and came to only nine NHL appearances. In July 2015 he signed a one-year contract as a free agent with the Anaheim Ducks , for which he was already active in the 2006/07 season, but was only used with the San Diego Gulls in the AHL. After the 2015/16 season he was initially unemployed and only received a short-term contract with Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho from Liiga in Finland in January 2017 , which was extended two weeks later until the end of the season.

From November 2017 on, O'Brien was under contract with the Black Wings Linz in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga . After the season he ended his active career in summer 2018.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2000/01	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		61	2	12	14th	89		4th	0	1	1	6th
2001/02	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		67	10	23	33	132		1	0	0	0	2
2002/03	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		28	8th	15th	23	90		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	OHL		34	8th	11	19th	108		19th	4th	10	14th	79
2003/04	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		60	2	8th	10	163		9	0	2	2	30th
2004/05	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		77	5	20th	25th	319		12	1	3	4th	57
2005/06	Portland Pirates	AHL		77	8th	33	41	287		19th	6th	16	22nd	81
2006/07	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		62	2	12	14th	140		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		18th	0	2	2	36		6th	0	0	0	12
2007/08	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		77	4th	17th	21st	154		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		76	0	10	10	196		10	1	1	2	24
2009/10	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		65	2	6th	8th	79		12	1	2	3	25th
2010/11	Nashville Predators	NHL		80	2	7th	9	83		12	0	0	0	18th
2011/12	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		76	3	17th	20th	105		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		28	0	4th	4th	60		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		31	3	5	8th	58		4th	1	0	1	18th
2013/14	Calgary Flames	NHL		45	0	3	3	58		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		51	11	19th	30th	127		2	0	1	1	17th
2014/15	Florida panthers	NHL		9	0	1	1	5		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Diego Gulls	AHL		57	1	16	17th	81		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho	Liiga		18th	1	3	4th	14th		7th	0	1	1	4th
2017/18	EHC Linz	EBEL		34	0	8th	8th	44		12	2	4th	6th	16
OHL total				190	28	61	89	419		24	4th	11	15th	87
AHL total				296	29	95	114	954		46	8th	22nd	30th	203
NHL overall				537	13	79	92	916		40	2	3	5	79

( 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

Commons : Shane O'Brien  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shane O'Brien at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Shane O'Brien at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Avalanche Acquires Alex Tanguay And Cory Sarich From Flames. avalanche.nhl.com, accessed June 28, 2013 . 
2. ↑ A lot of NHL experience for Black Wings Linz. In: laola1.at. November 9, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .