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Tough loss for UML, reported from USHR:
McEachern Named Head Coach at Rivers
Former BU star forward and 14-year NHL veteran Shawn McEachern has been named the new head coach at Rivers. He will also serve as assistant AD.
McEachern has been a Div. I assistant - first at Northeastern and then at UMass-Lowell -- since his playing career ended. He actually started his coaching career before that, at Salem State, during the NHL lockout in '04-05.
McEachern, 41, was a star at Matignon during the Cambridge school's glory years, then went on to Boston University in the fall of '88. In his junior year, '90-91, the 5'11" left wing notched 82 points for the Terriers and was named a first-team All-American and Hobey Baker finalist (BC's David Emma won it that year). The following year, McEachern played for the U.S. Olympic Team at the '92 games in Albertville, and then joined the Pittsburgh Penguins immediately afterward. During that spring's Stanley Cup playoffs, he scored two goals and added seven assists to help the Penguins repeat as Cup champs. After the following season, he was traded to the LA Kings for a year, and then swapped back to Pittsburgh. He had his biggest years in Ottawa - averaging nearly 30 goals a season from '97 to '01. After a couple of seasons with the Atlanta Thrashers, he signed as a free agent with the Bruins before hanging up the skates four years ago.
McEachern, who lives in Marblehead with his wife and three children, told us that earlier in the spring he had seen that the Rivers position was open. "I inquired into it," he said, "and went for a visit. I met the headmaster, the AD, and saw the facilities, which are really unbelievable there."
We asked what led him to step off the Div. I coaching track. "It was a lifestyle decision," he said. "I've always wanted to be a head coach, and, as I went around to different boarding schools while working as an assistant, I noticed that it was a good lifestyle the coaches at those schools were leading."
Asked if he felt he could lift Rivers up to another level, McEachern said, "I think I have to get my feet wet first, but yes, I want to get some good players, good student-athletes. I've seen schools around here like St. Seb's and Nobles go through up-and-down cycles, so I think we can build something good."
"In my time, when I was playing at Matignon, the Catholic Conference was big around here. Now, it's the preps with Nobles, Belmont Hill, etc. And at Rivers we're going to be competing in the same field. Everyone is Division 1 now. We want to win, and we want to be there at the end."
Tough loss for UML, reported from USHR:
McEachern Named Head Coach at Rivers
Former BU star forward and 14-year NHL veteran Shawn McEachern has been named the new head coach at Rivers. He will also serve as assistant AD.
McEachern has been a Div. I assistant - first at Northeastern and then at UMass-Lowell -- since his playing career ended. He actually started his coaching career before that, at Salem State, during the NHL lockout in '04-05.
McEachern, 41, was a star at Matignon during the Cambridge school's glory years, then went on to Boston University in the fall of '88. In his junior year, '90-91, the 5'11" left wing notched 82 points for the Terriers and was named a first-team All-American and Hobey Baker finalist (BC's David Emma won it that year). The following year, McEachern played for the U.S. Olympic Team at the '92 games in Albertville, and then joined the Pittsburgh Penguins immediately afterward. During that spring's Stanley Cup playoffs, he scored two goals and added seven assists to help the Penguins repeat as Cup champs. After the following season, he was traded to the LA Kings for a year, and then swapped back to Pittsburgh. He had his biggest years in Ottawa - averaging nearly 30 goals a season from '97 to '01. After a couple of seasons with the Atlanta Thrashers, he signed as a free agent with the Bruins before hanging up the skates four years ago.
McEachern, who lives in Marblehead with his wife and three children, told us that earlier in the spring he had seen that the Rivers position was open. "I inquired into it," he said, "and went for a visit. I met the headmaster, the AD, and saw the facilities, which are really unbelievable there."
We asked what led him to step off the Div. I coaching track. "It was a lifestyle decision," he said. "I've always wanted to be a head coach, and, as I went around to different boarding schools while working as an assistant, I noticed that it was a good lifestyle the coaches at those schools were leading."
Asked if he felt he could lift Rivers up to another level, McEachern said, "I think I have to get my feet wet first, but yes, I want to get some good players, good student-athletes. I've seen schools around here like St. Seb's and Nobles go through up-and-down cycles, so I think we can build something good."
"In my time, when I was playing at Matignon, the Catholic Conference was big around here. Now, it's the preps with Nobles, Belmont Hill, etc. And at Rivers we're going to be competing in the same field. Everyone is Division 1 now. We want to win, and we want to be there at the end."
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