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Tyler Sheehy
Sheehy in 2024
Born (1995-11-20) November 20, 1995 (age 28)
Burnsville, Minnesota, U.S.
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 179 lb (81 kg; 12 st 11 lb)
Position Center
Shoots Right
DEL team
Former teams		 Straubing Tigers
Iowa Wild
Nürnberg Ice Tigers
NHL draft Undrafted
Playing career 2015–present

Tyler Sheehy (born November 20, 1995) is an American professional ice hockey center who is currently playing for the Straubing Tigers in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He was an All-American for Minnesota.[1]

Playing career[edit]

Sheehy joined the Golden Gophers ice hockey team in the fall of 2015 and immediately became a key contributor on offense. After helping Minnesota capture its 4th-consecutive first-place finish, Sheehy became one of the team's stars as a sophomore.[2] Sheehy led the Gophers in scoring and was named an All-American. Unfortunately, Minnesota lost both of its postseason games that season and ended the season on a sour note. Entering his junior season, Sheehy was named team captain and, with the team ranked 3rd in the pre-season poll, there were high expectations. As it turned out, however, Minnesota's offense played poorly all season while Sheehy's offensive numbers were more than halved. The fallout from losing both playoff matches once more was the resignation of head coach Don Lucia after 19 seasons.[3] Sheehy's production recovered in his senior season under new bench boss Bob Motzko but Minnesota fared little better in their record and Sheehy's college career ended with just a single NCAA tournament game to his résumé.

After graduating, Sheehy signed with the Minnesota Wild and was assigned to their AHL affiliate for the remainder of the season. He spent most of his first full year as a professional playing with the Allen Americans but made the most of his time there, leading the team in scoring. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he wasn't able to showcase his talent in any postseason games. He was resigned to a 1-year contract[4] when the following season finally began and split time between the Americans and the Iowa Wild. He didn't have as good of a season the second time around but did finally return to postseason action.

In 2021, Sheehy travelled to Germany to continue his professional career and signed a deal with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers of the top flight DEL.[5]

In his second season with the Ice Tigers in 2022–23, Sheehy contributed offensively with 12 goals and 34 points through 53 regular season games. Following a playoff qualifier defeat to the Fischtown Pinguins, he left Nürnberg at the conclusion of his contract on March 18, 2023.[6]

Career statistics[edit]

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2011–12 Burnsville High School MN-HS 25 19 25 44 4 3 2 3 5 2
2011–12 Waterloo Black Hawks USHL 7 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
2012–13 Burnsville High School MN-HS 25 17 27 44 6 3 5 0 5 0
2012–13 Waterloo Black Hawks USHL 5 1 0 1 2 — — — — —
2013–14 USNTDP U-18 USHL 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2013–14 Waterloo Black Hawks USHL 49 21 28 49 4 12 8 7 15 0
2014–15 Waterloo Black Hawks USHL 43 15 26 41 20 — — — — —
2014–15 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 13 2 10 12 4 4 0 3 3 0
2015–16 U. of Minnesota B1G 37 12 18 30 6 — — — — —
2016–17 U. of Minnesota B1G 38 20 33 53 20 — — — — —
2017–18 U. of Minnesota B1G 36 12 13 25 16 — — — — —
2018–19 U. of Minnesota B1G 38 12 29 41 26 — — — — —
2018–19 Iowa Wild AHL 5 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2019–20 Iowa Wild AHL 2 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2019–20 Allen Americans ECHL 47 26 44 70 4 — — — — —
2020–21 Iowa Wild AHL 15 1 4 5 0 — — — — —
2020–21 Allen Americans ECHL 16 2 12 14 2 7 1 2 3 0
2021–22 Nürnberg Ice Tigers DEL 49 25 18 43 6 3 0 2 2 0
2022–23 Nürnberg Ice Tigers DEL 53 12 22 34 4 2 0 0 0 2
2023–24 Straubing Tigers DEL 50 11 14 25 6 12 2 1 3 15
AHL totals 22 1 4 5 0 — — — — —
DEL totals 152 48 54 102 16 17 2 3 5 17

Awards and honors[edit]

Award Year
Big Ten All-Tournament Team 2016 [7]
All-Big Ten First Team 2016–17 [8]
AHCA West First Team All-American 2016–17 [1]
All-Big Ten Second Team 2018–19 [9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Men's Ice Hockey Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
  2. ^ "Minnesota Men's Hockey 2018-19 Media Guide" (PDF). Minnesota Golden Gophers. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  3. ^ "Minnesota Hockey: Don Lucia steps down as Gophers head coach". The Daily Gopher. March 20, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  4. ^ "Iowa re-signs forward Tyler Sheehy". Iowa Wild. November 12, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  5. ^ "With Tyler Sheehy comes a strong center" (in German). Nürnberg Ice Tigers. July 7, 2021. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  6. ^ "Current status of personnel planning" (in German). Nürnberg Ice Tigers. March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
  7. ^ "2016 All-Tournament Team" (PDF). BigTen.org. Big Ten Conference. March 19, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  8. ^ "2016-17 All-Big Ten Hockey Team" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-05.
  9. ^ "Hockey Postseason Honors Announced". bigten.org. March 19, 2019. Retrieved March 19, 2019.

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Big Ten Scoring Champion
2016–17
With: Mason Jobst 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Big Ten Player of the Year
2016–17 		Succeeded by
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