From Cradle to Cup will be a series running throughout July 2013
looking back at players on the 2013 Chicago Blackhawks roster for their
Stanley Cup-winning campaign. Part 14 talks about power forward and agitator Andrew Shaw.
Andrew Shaw was born on July 20th, 1991, in Belleville, Ontario. He played with the Quinte Red Devils of the Ontario Minor league at the age of fifteen in the 2006-2007 season, scoring twenty-four goals and adding twenty-seven assists in thirty-two games. With the same team in exhibition games during the same season, he had fourteen goals and eighteen assists in eighteen appearances. There is no documentation of what Shaw did during the 2007-2008 season, but in 2008-2009, he played in the Ontario Hockey League's Niagara Ice Dogs, potting eight goals and passing nine assists in fifty-six games, while tallying ninety-seven penalty minutes. He also had two goals and an assist in twelve postseason games. He stayed with the Ice Dogs in 2009-2010, scoring at a pace of eleven goals and twenty-five assists in sixty-eight games, as well as 129 penalty minutes, followed by five pointless postseason games. Shaw left Niagara for the Owen Sound Attack in 2010-2011, and blossomed to a line of twenty-two goals and thirty-two assists to go with 135 penalty minutes in sixty-six regular season games, and then ten goals and seven assists in the OHL playoffs, which resulted in a championship for the Attack. Owen Sound qualified for a spot in the Memorial Cup, which pits teams from all of the Junior hockey circuit against each other, and in four games during the Memorial Cup, Shaw had two goals and five assists, leading the tournament. Shaw was then drafted in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. They immediately promoted him to the American Hockey League to play with the Rockford IceHogs. In 2011-2012, Shaw played in thirty-eight games for Rockford, posting twelve goals, eleven assists, and ninety-nine penalty minutes. A promotion to the NHL saw Shaw have instant success in scoring twelve goals, eleven assists, and a mature fifty penalty minutes in thirty-seven games, before going pointless in three postseason games and having been suspended for three more. Shaw returned to the AHL during the NHL lockout in 2012, and played to a line of eight goals and six assists in twenty-eight games, and then played in all forty-eight regular season games for the Blackhawks, but he only tallied nine goals and six assists. He provided secondary scoring during twenty-three postseason games, which included five goals and four assists, one of which ended the triple-overtime Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. Also, during Game 6, he had taken a puck to the face in the first period, and spent intermittent parts of the final two periods getting stitched up after the wound continued to absorb stitches. At the end of the game, a slightly bloody Shaw was able to lift the Stanley Cup as a critical member of the champion Chicago Blackhawks.
Andrew Shaw was born on July 20th, 1991, in Belleville, Ontario. He played with the Quinte Red Devils of the Ontario Minor league at the age of fifteen in the 2006-2007 season, scoring twenty-four goals and adding twenty-seven assists in thirty-two games. With the same team in exhibition games during the same season, he had fourteen goals and eighteen assists in eighteen appearances. There is no documentation of what Shaw did during the 2007-2008 season, but in 2008-2009, he played in the Ontario Hockey League's Niagara Ice Dogs, potting eight goals and passing nine assists in fifty-six games, while tallying ninety-seven penalty minutes. He also had two goals and an assist in twelve postseason games. He stayed with the Ice Dogs in 2009-2010, scoring at a pace of eleven goals and twenty-five assists in sixty-eight games, as well as 129 penalty minutes, followed by five pointless postseason games. Shaw left Niagara for the Owen Sound Attack in 2010-2011, and blossomed to a line of twenty-two goals and thirty-two assists to go with 135 penalty minutes in sixty-six regular season games, and then ten goals and seven assists in the OHL playoffs, which resulted in a championship for the Attack. Owen Sound qualified for a spot in the Memorial Cup, which pits teams from all of the Junior hockey circuit against each other, and in four games during the Memorial Cup, Shaw had two goals and five assists, leading the tournament. Shaw was then drafted in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. They immediately promoted him to the American Hockey League to play with the Rockford IceHogs. In 2011-2012, Shaw played in thirty-eight games for Rockford, posting twelve goals, eleven assists, and ninety-nine penalty minutes. A promotion to the NHL saw Shaw have instant success in scoring twelve goals, eleven assists, and a mature fifty penalty minutes in thirty-seven games, before going pointless in three postseason games and having been suspended for three more. Shaw returned to the AHL during the NHL lockout in 2012, and played to a line of eight goals and six assists in twenty-eight games, and then played in all forty-eight regular season games for the Blackhawks, but he only tallied nine goals and six assists. He provided secondary scoring during twenty-three postseason games, which included five goals and four assists, one of which ended the triple-overtime Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. Also, during Game 6, he had taken a puck to the face in the first period, and spent intermittent parts of the final two periods getting stitched up after the wound continued to absorb stitches. At the end of the game, a slightly bloody Shaw was able to lift the Stanley Cup as a critical member of the champion Chicago Blackhawks.
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