| Position: | Left wing |
| Played For: | Pittsburgh Penguins Los Angeles Kings Boston Bruins Ottawa Senators Atlanta Thrashers Kiekko-Espoo Malmö IF |
| Shoots: | Left |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 11 |
| Weight Lb: | 195 |
| Ntl Team: | United States |
| Birth Date: | 28 February 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Draft: | 110th overall |
| Draft Year: | 1987 |
| Draft Team: | Pittsburgh Penguins |
| Career Start: | 1991 |
| Career End: | 2006 |
Shawn Kenneth McEachern (born February 28, 1969) is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He is the current head men's ice hockey coach at Suffolk University, in Boston, Massachusetts.
As a youth, McEachern played in the 1981 and 1982 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Boston.[1]
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 Atlanta Thrashers. 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 Stanley Cup championship in 1992 with the Pittsburgh Penguins. On August 27, 2006, he announced his retirement.[2]
Before entering the NHL, McEachern was a standout ice hockey player at Boston University and at Matignon High School 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 Northeastern University 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.
| Award | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| All-Hockey East Second team | 1989–90 | |
| All-Hockey East First Team | 1990–91 | |
| AHCA East First-Team All-American | 1990–91 | |
| Hockey East All-Tournament Team | 1991 | [3] |
| Stanley Cup championship (Pittsburgh) | 1992 | |
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1985–86 | Matignon High School | HS-MA | 20 | 32 | 20 | 52 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986–87 | Matignon High School | HS-MA | 16 | 29 | 28 | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1987–88 | Matignon High School | HS-MA | 22 | 52 | 40 | 92 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1988–89 | Boston University | HE | 36 | 20 | 28 | 48 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989–90 | Boston University | HE | 43 | 25 | 31 | 56 | 78 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1990–91 | Boston University | HE | 41 | 34 | 48 | 82 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1991–92 | United States | Intl | 57 | 26 | 23 | 49 | 38 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 15 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | |||
| 1992–93 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 84 | 28 | 33 | 61 | 46 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | ||
| Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 49 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1993–94 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 27 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1994–95 | Kiekko-Espoo | SM-l | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 44 | 13 | 13 | 26 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |||
| Boston Bruins | NHL | 82 | 24 | 29 | 53 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |||
| Ottawa Senators | NHL | 65 | 11 | 20 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | |||
| Ottawa Senators | NHL | 81 | 24 | 24 | 48 | 42 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| Ottawa Senators | NHL | 77 | 31 | 25 | 56 | 46 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Ottawa Senators | NHL | 69 | 29 | 22 | 51 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Ottawa Senators | NHL | 82 | 32 | 40 | 72 | 62 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Ottawa Senators | NHL | 80 | 15 | 31 | 46 | 52 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Atlanta Thrashers | NHL | 46 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Atlanta Thrashers | NHL | 82 | 17 | 38 | 55 | 76 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Malmö IF | SEL | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Boston Bruins | NHL | 28 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Providence Bruins | AHL | 10 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| NHL totals | 911 | 256 | 323 | 579 | 506 | 97 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 62 | ||||
| Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | United States | WC | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1992 | United States | OG | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | |
| 1996 | United States | WCH | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Senior totals | 19 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | |||