Bob Sweeney (ice hockey)

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| name = Bob Sweeney

| position = Center/Right wing

| shoots = Right

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 200

| played_for = Boston Bruins
Buffalo Sabres
New York Islanders
Calgary Flames

| league = NHL

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|1|25|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.

| ntl_team = USA

| career_start = 1986

| career_end = 2001

| draft = 123rd overall

| draft_year = 1982

| draft_team = Boston Bruins

| image = BobSweeneyBruins.jpg

| image_size = 230px

}}

Robert Emmett Sweeney (born January 25, 1964) is an American former professional ice hockey center.

Career

Sweeney was born in Concord, Massachusetts, but grew up in Boxborough, Massachusetts.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} As a youth, he played in the 1976 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Assabet Valley.{{cite web|url=https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|title=Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA|year=2018|website=Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament|access-date=2019-01-12|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306085544/https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|url-status=dead}} He was drafted out of high school by the Boston Bruins in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, and went on to play four years at Boston College. He made his NHL debut in the 1986–87 season, but spent most of the year with the Bruins AHL affiliate the Moncton Golden Flames. The 1987–88 season was Sweeney's first full year, a season where Boston traveled to the Stanley Cup Finals only to be swept by the Edmonton Oilers.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

Following six seasons with Boston, Sweeney was claimed off waivers by the Buffalo Sabres in 1992 and then by the New York Islanders in the 1995 NHL Waiver Draft. After being traded to the Calgary Flames during the 1995–96 season Sweeney retired from the NHL. He spent the next season in the IHL before traveling across the Atlantic to play in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1997 until 2001. He is currently the executive director of the Boston Bruins Foundation.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

Awards and honors

class="wikitable"

! Award

! Year

All-Hockey East Second team

| 1984–85

| {{cite news|title=Hockey East All-Teams|url=http://www.augenblick.org/chha/hea_all.html|publisher=College Hockey Historical Archives|accessdate=May 19, 2013}}

AHCA East Second-Team All-American

| 1984–85

| {{cite news|title=Men's Ice Hockey Award Winners|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_icehockey_rb/2013/MIH%20awards%20for%202013.pdf|publisher=NCAA.org|accessdate=June 11, 2013}}

Bob Sweeney Named Director of Development for the Boston Bruins Foundation - 2007

Personal

Bob Sweeney is the brother-in-law of Madeline Amy Sweeney, one of the flight attendants on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the north tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks.{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=588024|title=Ten years later, 9/11 still resonates in hockey|date=September 9, 2011|first=Dan|last=Rosen|publisher=NHL.com|accessdate=2011-09-10}}

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Regular season ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Playoffs
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM
1979–80 \| Acton-Boxborough Regional High School \| HS-MA \| —	—	—	—	— \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1980–81 \| Acton-Boxborough Regional High School \| HS-MA \| —	—	—	—	— \| —	—	—	—	—
1981–82 \| Acton-Boxborough Regional High School \| HS-MA \| 46	44	36	80	— \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1982–83 \| Boston College \| ECAC \| 30	17	11	28	10 \| —	—	—	—	—
1983–84 \| Boston College \| ECAC \| 23	14	7	21	10 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1984–85 \| Boston College \| HE \| 44	32	32	64	43 \| —	—	—	—	—
1985–86 \| Boston College \| HE \| 41	15	24	39	52 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1986–87 \| Boston Bruins \| NHL \| 14	2	4	6	21 \| 3	0	0	0	0
1986–87 \| Moncton Golden Flames \| AHL \| 58	29	26	55	81 \| 4	0	2	2	13
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1987–88 \| Boston Bruins \| NHL \| 80	22	23	45	73 \| 23	6	8	14	66
1988–89 \| Boston Bruins \| NHL \| 75	14	14	28	99 \| 10	2	4	6	19
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1989–90 \| Boston Bruins \| NHL \| 70	22	24	46	93 \| 20	0	2	2	30
1990–91 \| Boston Bruins \| NHL \| 80	15	33	48	115 \| 17	4	2	6	45
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1991–92 \| Boston Bruins \| NHL \| 63	6	14	20	103 \| 14	1	0	1	25
1991–92 \| Maine Mariners \| AHL \| 1	1	0	1	0 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1992–93 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 80	21	26	47	118 \| 8	2	2	4	8
1993–94 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 60	11	14	25	94 \| 1	0	0	0	0
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1994–95 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 45	5	4	9	18 \| 5	0	0	0	4
1995–96 \| New York Islanders \| NHL \| 66	6	6	12	59 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1995–96 \| Calgary Flames \| NHL \| 6	1	1	2	6 \| 2	0	0	0	0
1996–97 \| Québec Rafales \| IHL \| 69	10	21	31	120 \| 9	2	0	2	8
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1997–98 \| Revierlöwen Oberhausen \| DEL \| 27	9	4	13	77 \| —	—	—	—	—
1997–98 \| Frankfurt Lions \| DEL \| 20	7	8	15	32 \| 7	1	3	4	6
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1998–99 \| Frankfurt Lions \| DEL \| 46	6	21	27	30 \| 1	0	1	1	8
1999–00 \| München Barons \| DEL \| 37	9	21	30	63 \| 12	3	5	8	20
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 2000–01 \| München Barons \| DEL \| 33	3	11	14	50 \| 11	1	0	1	8
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" \| NHL totals ! 639 !! 125 !! 163 !! 288 !! 799 ! 103 !! 15 !! 18 !! 33 !! 197