Shawn Thornton

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Shawn Thornton
Date of birth July 23, 1977
place of birth Oshawa , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 98 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1997 , 7th round, 190th position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1995-1997 Peterborough Petes
1997-2001 St. John's Maple Leafs
2001-2006 Norfolk Admirals
2002-2005 Chicago Blackhawks
2006-2007 Anaheim Ducks
2007-2014 Boston Bruins
2014-2017 Florida panthers

Shawn Thornton (born July 23, 1977 in Oshawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current official. The winger made 810 games in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks , Anaheim Ducks , Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers . As a classic enforcer , Thornton won the Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007 and with Boston in 2011 . After the end of his active career, he moved to the management of the Florida Panthers.

Career

Thornton during the warm-up

The 1.85 m tall winger began his professional career with the Peterborough Petes in the Canadian Junior League OHL , before he was selected ( drafted ) in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft as 190th in the seventh round of the Toronto Maple Leafs .

In the coming season , the Maple Leafs used the right-handed shooter in their farm team , the St. John's Maple Leafs , in the American Hockey League , but without using him in the NHL for the next four years. On September 30, 2001 Thornton was finally transferred to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Marty Wilford , for which he completed first assignments in the highest North American professional league in the 2002/03 season . However, since the Canadian mostly had to play in the AHL in Chicago, he was hired as a free agent by the Anaheim Ducks in July 2006 , where he was able to play for the first time in a regular NHL squad.

With the Ducks Thornton won the Stanley Cup in 2007 and thus the North American Ice Hockey Championship, but he was given to the Boston Bruins for the 2007/08 season . With these he won his second Stanley Cup in the 2010/11 season .

After seven years in Boston, the attacker did not get a new contract with the Bruins after the 2013/14 season, so he joined the Florida Panthers as a free agent in July 2014 . There he was active for three more seasons before he declared his playing career over after the 2016/17 season. Additionally, he was slated to join the Panthers 'management team in the near future, which happened on June 1, 2017 when he was introduced as the Panthers' new Vice President of Business Operations .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 Peterborough Petes OHL 63 4th 10 14th 192 24 3 0 3 25th
1996/97 Peterborough Petes OHL 61 19th 10 29 204 11 2 4th 6th 20th
1997/98 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 59 0 3 3 225 - - - - -
1998/99 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 78 8th 11 19th 354 5 0 0 0 9
1999/00 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 60 4th 12 16 316 - - - - -
2000/01 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 79 5 12 17th 320 3 1 2 3 2
2001/02 Norfolk Admirals AHL 70 8th 14th 22nd 281 4th 0 0 0 4th
2002/03 Norfolk Admirals AHL 50 11 2 13 213 9 0 2 2 28
2002/03 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 13 1 1 2 31 - - - - -
2003/04 Norfolk Admirals AHL 64 6th 11 17th 259 8th 1 1 2 6th
2003/04 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 8th 1 0 1 23 - - - - -
2004/05 Norfolk Admirals AHL 71 5 9 14th 263 6th 0 0 0 8th
2005/06 Norfolk Admirals AHL 59 10 22nd 32 192 4th 0 0 0 35
2005/06 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 10 0 0 0 16 - - - - -
2006/07 Portland Pirates AHL 15th 4th 4th 8th 55 - - - - -
2006/07 Anaheim Ducks NHL 48 2 7th 9 88 15th 0 0 0 19th
2007/08 Boston Bruins NHL 58 4th 3 7th 74 7th 0 0 0 6th
2008/09 Boston Bruins NHL 79 6th 5 11 123 10 1 0 1 6th
2009/10 Boston Bruins NHL 74 1 9 10 141 12 0 0 0 4th
2010/11 Boston Bruins NHL 79 10 10 20th 122 18th 0 1 1 24
2011/12 Boston Bruins NHL 81 5 8th 13 154 5 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Boston Bruins NHL 45 3 4th 7th 60 22nd 0 4th 4th 18th
2013/14 Boston Bruins NHL 64 5 3 8th 74 12 0 1 1 4th
2014/15 Florida panthers NHL 46 1 4th 5 50 - - - - -
2015/16 Florida panthers NHL 50 1 4th 5 80 4th 0 0 0 2
2016/17 Florida panthers NHL 50 2 2 4th 67 - - - - -
OHL total 124 23 20th 43 396 35 5 4th 9 45
AHL total 605 61 100 161 2478 39 2 5 7th 92
NHL overall 705 42 60 102 1103 105 1 6th 7th 83

( 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 : Shawn Thornton  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Richards: It's last call for Shawn Thornton as final NHL games beckon. miamiherald.com, April 6, 2017, accessed April 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Thornton, Shawn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Oshawa , Ontario , Canada