Shawn McNeil

Shawn McNeil
Date of birth	March 17, 1978
place of birth	Pembroke , Ontario , Canada
size	182 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
number	# 21
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1996 , 3rd round, 78th position Washington Capitals
Career stations
1993-1997	Kamloops Blazers
1997-1999	Red Deer Rebels
1999-2003	Louisiana Ice Gators
2003-2006	Foxes Duisburg
2006-2009	Kassel Huskies
since 2009	Herner EV

Shawn McNeil (born March 17, 1978 in Pembroke , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who is currently active for the Herner EV from the major league .

Career

McNeil began his career in 1993 with the Kamloops Blazers , for which he played in the Canadian Junior League WHL until 1997 . Before the start of the 1996/97 season , the Washington Capitals took him from the NHL under contract, which had selected him in the third round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft in 78th position. However, the center did not complete an NHL game for the capitals and spent the following two seasons with the Red Deer Rebels in the same division, until he finally moved to Louisiana IceGators in the East Coast Hockey League in 1999 . In the same year McNeil was also appointed to the Canadian national team, for which he played two games.

After more than 270 games and 130 goals, the Canadian left Louisiana after four years and moved to Germany for EV Duisburg in the 2nd Bundesliga for the following 2003/04 season . After two years and 100 games played, the attacker rose to the German Ice Hockey League with the Foxes and played for the league the following year, which the team was able to achieve in the playdowns against the Kassel Huskies .

Despite the relegation of the "Huskies" to the second division , McNeil moved with his teammate Hugo Boisvert from Duisburg to Kassel and played with the North Hesse again two seasons for promotion to the DEL. With more than 120 scorer points in both years, Shawn McNeil was one of the best players at Kassel and dominated the second Bundesliga with them. Although they missed promotion in the final of the play-offs in 2006/07 , they managed this with a 27 point lead in the main round and a final victory against the Landshut Cannibals in the following year.

McNeil unexpectedly fell ill with rheumatism in the summer of 2008 and kept a training deficit in the DEL season 2008/09 , whereupon he moved to the Herner EV in the league in January 2009. The center retains the option to switch to Füchsen Duisburg for the 2009/10 season .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 ECHL Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1993/94	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		43	4th	3	7th	11		9	0	1	1	0
1995/96	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		67	15th	30th	45	24		16	4th	12	16	17th
1996/97	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		70	38	47	85	37		5	1	3	4th	2
1997/98	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		72	47	62	109	69		5	1	3	4th	9
1998/99	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		72	44	59	103	87		9	8th	7th	15th	6th
1999/00	Louisiana IceGators	ECHL		62	26th	28	54	30th		19th	11	11	22nd	2
1999/00	Cleveland Lumberjacks	IHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Louisiana IceGators	ECHL		72	36	45	81	70		14th	7th	12	19th	11
2001/02	Louisiana IceGators	ECHL		68	32	40	72	88		3	0	2	2	0
2001/02	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Louisiana IceGators	ECHL		72	40	51	91	58		6th	1	2	3	8th
2003/04	EV Duisburg	2nd BL		49	29	24	53	64		4th	2	0	2	2
2004/05	EV Duisburg	2nd BL		51	28	36	64	121		12	5	7th	12	26th
2005/06	EV Duisburg	DEL		52	10	24	34	48		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL		51	25th	40	65	102		10	3	7th	10	18th
2007/08	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL		42	26th	29	55	56		15th	14th	11	25th	20th
2008/09	Kassel Huskies	DEL
WHL overall				325	148	201	349	228		44	14th	26th	40	34
ECHL total				274	134	164	298	246		42	19th	27	46	21st
2. Bundesliga overall				193	108	129	237	343		41	24	25th	49	66

( 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

• Shawn McNeil at hockeydb.com (English)
• Shawn McNeil at eurohockey.com