Former Wildcat hockey player Dominik Shine has been selected to play in the AHL All-Star game Feb. 10-11 at the BMO Center in Rockford, Illinois. The forward played for NMU from 2013-2017. He is in his 10th season as a Grand Rapids Griffin and, in December, became only the third player in team history to reach 500 games.
Shine has 27 points (14-13—27), 24 penalty minutes and a career-high plus-17 rating in 26 games with Grand Rapids this season. Shine ranks among the AHL leaders in goals (T17th) and plus-minus rating (T11th), in addition to placing among the team leaders in points (2nd), goals (3rd), assists (T5th) and plus-minus rating (T5th). The 32-year-old collected his first-career hat trick during a four-point night (3-1—4) on Nov. 25 at the Texas Stars, which included his 200th pro point.
On the all-time regular-season franchise leaderboard, Shine ranks third in games played (509), fourth in goals (89), seventh in assists (122), fourth in points (211), fifth in penalty minutes (577), tied for fifth in shorthanded goals (6), tied for fourth in game-winners (14), tied for first in unassisted goals (10), and third in shots (864).
Before beginning his professional career, Shine totaled 97 points (48-49-97) along with 185 penalty minutes in 131 games at NMU, where he served as an alternate captain in both his junior and senior years. As a senior, he earned All-WCHA Third Team recognition after pacing the conference with 20 goals in 33 games. He was also named to the All-WCHA Second Team as a junior after leading the Wildcats with 15 goals in 34 contests.
Prior to his time at the collegiate level, Shine recorded 134 points (64-70-134) and accumulated 503 penalty minutes across 188 games with the Lincoln Stars of the United States Hockey League from 2009–13, captaining the team in each of his final two seasons. Hailing from Pinckney, Mich., Shine developed through the Little Caesars Amateur Hockey program while growing up in Metro Detroit.