Shannon Hope is a retired Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 defender

Defenceman (ice hockey)

Defence in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring...

 who played for the Peterborough Pirates

Peterborough Pirates

Peterborough Pirates was an English ice hockey team. It was established in 1982, as the senior adult semi-professional team of the newly formed Peterborough Ice Hockey Club....

 and the Cardiff Devils

Cardiff Devils

The Cardiff Devils are a Welsh ice hockey team who play in the British Elite Ice Hockey League. The team currently plays in the temporary Cardiff Arena...

 as well as for the Great Britain national team, for whom he was the captain

Captain (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, each team can designate an official captain for each game. The player serving as captain during the game wears a "C" on his or her jersey...

 between 1995 and 1997. He was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999.

After retiring from playing, Hope started his own ice hockey clothing business, Shinedog.

Hope rejoined the Devils organisation as Director of Hockey in 2008 when the team was bought by Comms Direct owner Matt Burge and continues to work towards re-establishing the 'Next Generation Devils' brand within Wales and the UK.

Awards and honours

• BHL Division 1
  British Hockey League
  The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League...
  
   All-star in 1989.
• BHL Premier Division
  British Hockey League
  The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League...
  
   All-star in 1990 and 1991.
• Awarded testimonial match
  Testimonial match
  A testimonial match or testimonial game, often referred to simply as a testimonial, is a practice in some sports, notably football and especially in the United Kingdom, where a club puts on a match in honour of a player for service to the club....
  
   by Cardiff Devils
  Cardiff Devils
  The Cardiff Devils are a Welsh ice hockey team who play in the British Elite Ice Hockey League. The team currently plays in the temporary Cardiff Arena...
  
   on 25 November 1997.
• Inducted to the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999.
• Jersey number 35 retired by Cardiff Devils
  Cardiff Devils
  The Cardiff Devils are a Welsh ice hockey team who play in the British Elite Ice Hockey League. The team currently plays in the temporary Cardiff Arena...
  
  .

Club

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1984–85	Peterborough Pirates Peterborough Pirates Peterborough Pirates was an English ice hockey team. It was established in 1982, as the senior adult semi-professional team of the newly formed Peterborough Ice Hockey Club....	BHL 1 British Hockey League The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League...		20	54	76	130	40
1987–88	Cardiff Devils Cardiff Devils The Cardiff Devils are a Welsh ice hockey team who play in the British Elite Ice Hockey League. The team currently plays in the temporary Cardiff Arena...	BHL 1		22	34	27	61	122
1988–89	Cardiff Devils	BHL 1		23	27	60	87	50
1989–90	Cardiff Devils	BHL Prem British Hockey League The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League...		32	21	44	65	49		6	2	6	8	6
1990–91	Cardiff Devils	BHL Prem		36	14	51	65	76		7	5	4	9	16
1991–92	Cardiff Devils	BHL Prem		30	15	34	49	60		5	2	12	14	11
1992–93	Cardiff Devils	BHL Prem		33	17	49	66	70		8	4	13	17	14
1993–94	Cardiff Devils	BHL Prem		57	16	68	84	106		8	3	12	15	8
1994–95	Cardiff Devils	BHL Prem		42	9	51	60	103		6	0	8	8	4
1995–96	Cardiff Devils	BHL Prem		36	7	29	36	52		6	1	4	5	14
1996–97	Cardiff Devils	ISL Ice Hockey Superleague The Ice Hockey Superleague was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2003. Formed in 1995, it replaced the Premier Division of the British Hockey League, it was the highest level of ice hockey competition in the United Kingdom...		42	2	11	13	67		7	3	2	5	2
1997–98	Cardiff Devils	ISL		38	2	10	12	44		9	1	3	4	2
1999–00	Peterborough Pirates	BNL British National League The British National League is a defunct second-level professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. Although no formal promotion and relegation existed during its period of existence, it was considered to have a standard below that of the Ice Hockey Superleague and above that of the...		3	1	1	2	6		8	5	5	10	34

International

				Tournament
Year	Team	Event		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1992	Great Britain	World Championships Pool C		2	0	0	0	0
1993	Great Britain	World Championships Pool B		7	0	2	2	4
1994	Great Britain	World Championships Pool A Ice Hockey World Championships The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation . First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European...		6	0	1	1	14
1995	Great Britain	World Championships Pool B		6	1	1	2	14
1997	Great Britain	World Championships Pool B		7	0	2	2	10

External links

• A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey entry
• British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame entry