Shawn Kenneth McEachern (born February 28, 1969) is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He is the current head boys' varsity ice hockey coach at

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, an independent 6–12 school in Weston, Massachusetts.

Biography

As a youth, McEachern played in the 1981 and 1982 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Boston. During his stint as a professional, he tallied 254 goals and 317 assists during a 13-year NHL career with the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Ottawa Senators and

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. He scored over 30 goals in two different seasons and his best point total came in 2000–01, when he notched 32 goals and 40 assists for the Ottawa Senators. He won a

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championship in

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with the Pittsburgh Penguins. On August 27, 2006, he announced his retirement. Before entering the NHL, McEachern was a standout ice hockey player at Boston University and at

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in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he won two state championships. He has previously served as an assistant hockey coach at University of Massachusetts Lowell, as well as

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and Salem State University. He is also the coach for the East Coast Wizards U16 team in Bedford, Massachusetts. He currently resides in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Awards and honors

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

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Shawn McEachern's TSN profile
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