Bob Sweeney (ice hockey)
Robert " Bob" Sweeney ( born January 25, 1964 in Concord, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who during his career, including for the Boston Bruins, the Buffalo Sabres, the New York Islanders and Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League was active.
Career
Sweeney began his career in 1982 at Boston College. There he played for the hockey team in the U.S. college leagues ECAC Hockey and Hockey East. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 he was selected by the leaders of the Boston Bruins in the sixth round of a total of 123 positions. After a study period of four years, the Americans finished his studies in the summer of 1986 and then joined the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins. The Bruins first put him in their former farm team, the Moncton Golden Flames, in the East Coast Hockey League. From the season 1987/88 he was a member of the tribe of the Bruins squad.
In 1991 he left Boston and the Buffalo Sabres joined them, for the offensive players in the aftermath graduated 199 NHL games, scoring 85 points scorer. After 1995/96, both in 66 games for the New York Islanders, as well as in eight games for the Calgary Flames, he stood in the season on the ice, he pushed in the summer of 1997, a move to Europe. Him where the management of Revierlöwen Oberhausen from the German Ice Hockey League took them under contract, for which he, however, only 27 times laced up skates and then moved on to league rivals Frankfurt Lions.
His contract, which expired at the end of the 1998/99 season was not extended. Sweeney joined then the Munich Barons at, with whom he already won the German championship in the season 1999 /2000. 2001 ended the right shooter its active hockey career at the age of 37 years.