Barry Smith (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Barry Smith Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 25, 1955
place of birth Surrey , British Columbia , Canada
date of death September 7, 2013
Place of death Blaine , Tennessee , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 80 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1975 , 2nd lap, 32nd position
Boston Bruins
WHA Amateur Draft 1975 , 3rd lap, 36th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1970-1971 Estevan Bruins
1971 New Westminster Bruins
1971-1973 Vancouver Nats
1973-1975 New Westminster Bruins
1975-1979 Rochester Americans
1979-1981 Colorado Rockies

Barry Edward Smith (born April 25, 1955 in Surrey , British Columbia , † September 7, 2013 in Blaine , Tennessee , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 114 games in the course of his active career between 1970 and 1981, among other things the Boston Bruins and Colorado Rockies in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of the center has denied. However, Smith spent most of his career with the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League (AHL), for which he completed 350 games. The later minor league coach celebrated his greatest successes during his junior career wearing the jersey of the Canadian U20 national team , winning the silver medal at the unofficial Junior World Cup in 1975 and being named Most Valuable Player of the Memorial Cup in the same year.

Career

Between 1970 and 1975 Smith spent a junior career marked by numerous team changes in the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). First, the striker came at the end of the 1969/70 season to his first appearances with the Estevan Bruins , for which he went on the ice in the following season. For the game year 1971/72 the franchise was relocated from Estevan in the province of Saskatchewan to New Westminster in Smith's home province of British Columbia , so that he wore the jersey of the New Westminster Bruins at the beginning of the season . But soon he was transferred to league rivals Vancouver Nats . There Smith was under contract until the middle of the following game year before he returned to the Bruins. There he was active until the end of his junior years in the summer of 1975, when he won the President's Cup with the team , the championship trophy of the WCHL. He then played the prestigious Memorial Cup with the New Westminster Bruins , which they lost in the final against the Toronto Marlboros . Nevertheless, Smith was awarded the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player of the tournament and the call to the All-Star Team. Consequently, he was both in the NHL Amateur Draft 1975 in the second round in 32nd place by the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League (NHL) and in the WHA Amateur Draft 1975 by the Edmonton Oilers from the then with the NHL in competition standing World Hockey Association selected in the second round in 36th position.

The center forward then moved in the summer of 1975 to the organization of the Boston Bruins in the NHL. There he was a regular player from the beginning of the 1975/76 season to the end of November 1975 and so came to 19 season appearances, in which he only managed one goal. He was then sent to the Rochester Americans farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he finished the game year. As a result, the young player failed to return to the Boston NHL squad and so he spent the following three seasons until the summer of 1979 - still under contract with the Bruins - with the Amerks in the AHL.

Since the expiring contract of the Canadian was not extended over the end of the season 1978/79, he moved in September 1979 as a free agent to the Colorado Rockies . This initially continued to use him in the AHL with the Rochester Americans, before they called him to their squad at the end of the 1979 calendar year. At the end of the season, Smith was able to show 33 appearances for Colorado, which meant that he was also secure in the 1980/81 season . In addition to a few games for the Fort Worth Texans in the Central Hockey League (CHL), where he had already been used for the Birmingham Bulls last year , Smith played 62 games for the Rockies. He got eight scorer points . Nevertheless, the 31-year-old ended his active career after playing time.

CanadaCanada  Barry Smith
Coaching stations
1992-1997 Knoxville Cherokees
1998-1999 Winston-Salem IceHawks (assistant coach)
1999-2000 Syracuse Crunch (assistant coach)
2000-2001 San Angelo Outlaws

After his retirement, Smith began working as a coach in the junior sector. There he worked for ten years in Rochester , Michigan , between 1982 and 1992 , before moving to the professional field for the 1992/93 season. He worked until February 1997 as the head coach of the Knoxville Cherokees in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) and received at the end of the 1993/94 season the John Brophy Award for best coach in the league. After his release, in which he was replaced by Jack Capuano , Smith took a break for a little over a year. For the 1998/99 season he was introduced as an assistant coach to the Winston-Salem IceHawks from the United Hockey League (UHL). The following season he spent in the same position with the Syracuse Crunch from the AHL. His last coaching station were the San Angelo Outlaws from the West Coast Hockey League (WCHL), which he was head coach in the 2000/01 season . As a result, Smith settled in the state of Tennessee , where he died in September 2013 at the age of 58.

International

For his home country Smith took part with the Canadian U20 national team in the unofficial Junior World Cup in 1975 , which took place in the Canadian province of Manitoba and the US states of Minnesota and North Dakota . To win the silver medal, the center forward contributed three scorer points in the five tournament games. There was a gate underneath.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1969/70 Estevan Bruins WCHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1970/71 Estevan Bruins WCHL 62 6th 13 19th 96 7th 3 3 6th 10
1971/72 New Westminster Bruins WCHL 9 4th 2 6th 10 - - - - -
1971/72 Vancouver Nats WCHL 41 9 15th 24 39 - - - - -
1972/73 Vancouver Nats WCHL 30th 5 6th 11 13 - - - - -
1972/73 New Westminster Bruins WCHL 32 5 6th 11 46 5 0 0 0 0
1973/74 New Westminster Bruins WCHL 65 8th 10 18th 61 11 2 1 3 12
1974/75 New Westminster Bruins WCHL 65 19th 24 43 50 18th 7th 6th 13 14th
1975 New Westminster Bruins Memorial Cup 3 1 2 3 0
1975/76 Boston Bruins NHL 19th 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
1975/76 Rochester Americans AHL 50 14th 22nd 36 14th 7th 4th 4th 8th 5
1976/77 Rochester Americans AHL 79 9 13 22nd 16 12 3 2 5 4th
1977/78 Rochester Americans AHL 81 16 16 32 22nd 6th 2 1 3 0
1978/79 Rochester Americans AHL 80 23 43 66 46 - - - - -
1979/80 Rochester Americans AHL 35 3 7th 10 14th - - - - -
1979/80 Colorado Rockies NHL 33 2 3 5 4th - - - - -
1979/80 Birmingham Bulls CHL 13 2 0 2 43 4th 1 1 2 0
1980/81 Colorado Rockies NHL 62 4th 4th 8th 4th - - - - -
1980/81 Fort Worth Texans CHL 14th 2 5 7th 14th - - - - -
WCHL overall 306 56 76 132 317 41 12 10 22nd 36
CHL total 27 4th 5 9 57 4th 1 1 2 0
AHL total 325 65 101 166 112 25th 9 7th 16 9
NHL overall 114 7th 7th 14th 10 - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1975 Canada June World Cup 2nd place, silver 5 1 2 3 2
Juniors overall 5 1 2 3 2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Barry Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Surrey , British Columbia , Canada
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2013
Place of death Blaine , Tennessee , USA