Overview
- The NHL Alumni Association announced Sheehan’s passing and multiple outlets report he died on Saturday, Nov. 7 at age 77.
- Sheehan played 310 NHL games over an eight-season span of a 13-year pro career and finished with 48 goals and 111 regular-season points.
- He was a member of Montreal’s 1971 Stanley Cup team, the lone championship of his career, and later reached the 1979 Stanley Cup Final with the New York Rangers as a playoff call-up.
- Sheehan spent four seasons in the rival World Hockey Association, earned WHA All-Star selections in 1973 and 1974, and represented the United States at the 1981 World Championship.
- After retiring in 1983 he returned to Weymouth, Massachusetts to teach youth hockey; he is survived by five children and two siblings and leaves a family link to the NHL through cousin Charlie Coyle.