December 8, 2006
McEachern Joins Northeastern Staff
CHN Staff Report
BOSTON — Long-time NHL veteran and former Boston University star Shawn McEachern has been named assistant coach at Northeastern. McEachern will coach in Northeastern's matchup with Maine on Saturday at Matthews Arena.
McEachern retired from a 13-year NHL career last summer. He gained coaching experience as an assistant at Salem State during the NHL lockout in 2004-05.
McEachern, 37, finished his NHL career with 256 goals, 323 assist and 579 points. He was also a career plus-29 and scored 30 goals twice, 20 or more goals seven times and surpassed the 50-point plateau six times. He debuted with the Penguins in March 1992, following that year's Winter Olympics, and helped the team to a Stanley Cup victory. He had nine points in 19 playoff games that season and was teammates with former Northeastern goalie and assistant coach Bruce Racine.
In McEachearn's NHL career, he played for the Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Bruins, Ottawa Senators and Atlanta Thrashers. His longest stint was six seasons with the Ottawa Senators from 1996-2002. He had his best point total in 2000-01 with the Senators when he had 32 goals and 40 assists for 72 points in 82 games.
McEachern played three seasons at BU (1988-91). He was a two-time Hockey East All-Star and a first-team All-American in his senior year of 1990-91, when he had 82 points (34-48—82) in 41 games. The Terriers made it to the Frozen Four in McEachern's junior year of 1989-90 and won the Hockey East Championship and made it to the NCAA Championship game in McEachern's senior year, losing, 8-7, in triple overtime to Northern Michigan. McEachern left BU as the school's sixth all-time leading scorer with 79 goals and 107 assists for 186 points in 120 games.
A Waltham, Mass., native, McEachern was originally drafted 110th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1987 NHL draft while attending Matignon High School in Cambridge, Mass.
