Shawn Anderson
Shawn Stephen Anderson ( born February 7, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who spent eight seasons in the National Hockey League and seven in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Career
Anderson played in his native in the Quebec Amateur Athletic Association for the Lac St. Louis Lions. After half a year at the University of Maine, he joined around Christmas 1985 the team to Canada and played at the Spengler Cup. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1986 in the first round in fifth place. The Buffalo Sabres Anderson attracted so ago, for example, the later Hockey Hall -of- Famer Brian Leetch.
He has already played in the 1986/87 season for the first time in the National Hockey League, but was also sent to the farm team, the Rochester Americans. By 1990, he was active for these two teams, before he was transferred in exchange with Bill Houlder to the Washington Capitals. This put him on the waiver list, however, by the defaulting him the Quebec Nordiques. The links Sagittarius played the season finally for the Nordiques and their farm team, the Halifax Citadel. The 1991/92 season he spent in Germany then the ES white water. Prior to the season, he was sent to the Winnipeg Jets, who passed on him a few days later to the Washington Capitals. From 1992 to 1994, the defender then played for the Capitals in the NHL and the American Hockey League for the Baltimore Skipjacks. In August 1994, he signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Flyers, where he completed a game and the season played primarily for the Hershey Bears in the AHL. The 1995/96 season he spent in the International Hockey League with the Milwaukee Admirals.
After two more stations in the IHL in One year after the renewed move to Europe. Here Anderson played in eight games in the German Ice Hockey League for the Wedemark Scorpions. The 1997/98 season he played for the Revierlöwen Oberhausen, before he hired in Austria in the next season when EC KAC. After another six games in the IHL took place in the 1999/2000 season, the third move to Germany, this time to the Augsburg Panthers. In the game year 2000/ 01 he ran for the DEL - Up Iserlohn Roosters in which the defender became the top scorer. From 2001 to 2003 he played for the Nuremberg Ice Tigers. His last stop was the Augsburger Panther to which he returned. He then ended his professional hockey career.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 DEL All-Star Game
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )