Ben Smith (ice hockey player)

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Ben Smith
Date of birth July 11, 1988
place of birth Winston-Salem , North Carolina , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 94 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2008 , 6th round, 169th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2006-2010 Boston College
2010-2013 Rockford IceHogs
2010-2015 Chicago Blackhawks
2015-2016 San Jose Sharks
2016 Toronto Maple Leafs
Colorado Avalanche
2016-2018 Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto Marlies
since 2018 Adler Mannheim

Benjamin Alexander "Ben" Smith (born July 11, 1988 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Adlers Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League since June 2018 .

Career

youth

Smith in the IceHogs jersey (2012)

Ben Smith was born in Winston-Salem , but grew up in Avon , Connecticut . With the ice hockey Smith began however in about 175 distant Boston with the Boston Junior Bruins and the Boston Little Bruins . From summer 2006 he attended Boston College and played parallel for their ice hockey team, the Eagles , in the Hockey East Association, a college sports league. In the freshman year, he led the team with 18 points in 42 games and was therefore elected to the league's All-Academic Team and honored with the Bernie Burke Outstanding Freshman Award , which is given to the best player in the first year of college. In the next year, which he spent on the ice next to Nathan Gerbe , he scored 50 points in 44 games as the center of the front row, which meant he was called back to the All-Academic Team . In addition, at the end of the season, the championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was won, to the finals of which Boston qualified by placing in the Hockey East. In the final, the team defeated the University of Notre Dame 4-1; Smith get a goal and an assist.

The 2007/08 season was followed by the 2008 NHL Entry Draft , in which he was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in 169th position. For the time being, however, he stayed with his college team. The following season 2008/09 was rather disappointing, both team and personally. It was not until his senior year that Smith improved again and scored 37 points in 42 games in which he led the team as assistant captain. In addition, the team again won the NCAA championship; in the final she defeated the University of Wisconsin – Madison 5-0. Smith was named Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player , with the trophy that teammate Nathan Gerbe had received when winning the title two years earlier . In addition, after his last season in Boston, he received the Len Ceglarski Award for outstanding sportsmanship, which is awarded after an election among all head coaches of the Hockey East.

Chicago Blackhawks

Following his college years, he was signed by the Rockford IceHogs , the Blackhawks' farm team , in the spring of 2010 and played three more games in the play-offs, in which he scored a goal. Right at the beginning of the new season , in October 2010, Smith was called up for the first time in the NHL squad and made his NHL debut on October 29 in the game against the Edmonton Oilers . During the season he came to twelve more NHL appearances, but played primarily for the IceHogs, with 31 points in 62 games and at the end of the season received the Rockford's Rookie of the Year Award for the best rookie of the year.

Also in the following season 2011/12 Smith switched regularly between NHL and AHL, where he came again to 13 games for the Blackhawks. At the Icehogs, however, he increased his quota significantly, as he also scored 31 points, but only needed 38 games compared to 63 from last season. After these 38 games, he had to sit out until the end of the season due to hip surgery .

After he had extended his contract in Rockford by two years in June 2012, he spent almost the entire season 2012/13 in the AHL; In the end, the Blackhawks only had two missions. One of them, however, was a game in the 2013 Stanley Cup Final , which the Blackhawks won 4-2 overall against the Boston Bruins , which also gave Smith's name an engraving on the prestigious trophy. With the beginning of the 2013/14 season Smith was able to secure a regular place in the NHL roster of the Blackhawks.

Smith in the jersey of Adler Mannheim (2019)

San Jose, Toronto and Colorado

After 135 NHL appearances for the Blackhawks, Smith moved to the San Jose Sharks in March 2015 , who in return transferred Andrew Desjardins to Chicago. After the end of the regular season, he represented his home country for the first time on an international level and won the bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup .

In February 2016, Smith was handed over to the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Alex Stalock and a success-based four-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . In return, goalkeepers James Reimer and Jeremy Morin moved to the Sharks. With the Maple Leafs Smith ended the 2015/16 season, but received no additional contract. As a result, he joined the Colorado Avalanche as a free agent in August 2016 . Smith played four games for the Avalanche before being sent to the AHL via the waiver at the end of October 2016 . The Toronto Maple Leafs secured his services again. In the 2017/18 game year he led the Toronto Marlies , the Maple Leafs' farm team, as captain to win the championship in the AHL and thus to the Calder Cup .

Move to Germany

On June 15, 2018, Smith was signed by the Adlers Mannheim ( German Ice Hockey League ).

Achievements and Awards

  • 2007 Bernie Burke Outstanding Freshman Award
  • 2007 Hockey East All-Academic Team
  • 2008 Hockey East All-Academic Team
  • 2010 Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player
  • 2010 Len Ceglarski Award

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2006/07 Boston College Hockey East 42 10 8th 18th -1 10
2007/08 Boston College Hockey East 44 25th 25th 50 +18 12
2008/09 Boston College Hockey East 37 6th 11 17th –6 6th
2009/10 Boston College Hockey East 42 16 21st 37 +18 8th
2009/10 Rockford IceHogs AHL - - - - - - 3 1 0 1 ± 0 0
2010/11 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 6th 1 0 1 +1 0 7th 3 0 1 -1 0
2010/11 Rockford IceHogs AHL 63 19th 12 31 -3 16 - - - - - -
2011/12 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 13 2 0 2 -5 0 - - - - - -
2011/12 Rockford IceHogs AHL 38 15th 16 31 -1 10 - - - - - -
2012/13 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 1 1 0 1 ± 0 1 1 0 0 0 -1 0
2012/13 Rockford IceHogs AHL 54 27 20th 47 +17 13 - - - - - -
2013/14 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 75 14th 12 26th +3 2 19th 4th 2 6th +5 2
2014/15 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 61 5 4th 9 -1 2 - - - - - -
2014/15 San Jose Sharks NHL 19th 2 3 5 +3 0 - - - - - -
2015/16 San Jose Sharks NHL 6th 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
2015/16 San Jose Barracuda AHL 14th 8th 2 10 -1 4th - - - - - -
2015/16 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 16 2 4th 6th +3 0 - - - - - -
2015/16 Toronto Marlies AHL 5 4th 2 6th +3 0 15th 2 7th 9 +7 2
2016/17 Colorado Avalanche NHL 4th 0 0 0 -2 0 - - - - - -
2016/17 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 36 2 2 4th -5 4th - - - - - -
2017/18 Toronto Marlies AHL 73 27 32 59 +29 10 20th 7th 9 16 -2 0
NCAA overall 165 57 65 122 +29 36
AHL total 247 100 84 184 +44 53 38 10 16 26th +5 2
NHL overall 237 29 25th 54 -4 5 27 7th 2 9 +3 2

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2015 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 10 2 0 2 +1 0
Men overall 10 2 0 2 +1 0

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Ben Smith  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ben Smith at hockeysfuture.com (English, accessed December 5, 2013)
  2. ↑ insidecollegehockey.com: Game report NCAA final 2008 Boston vs. Notre Dame ( Memento of November 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 5, 2013)
  3. ↑ a b bceagles.com: Profile on the Boston College Eagles website (accessed December 5, 2013)
  4. ↑ nhl.com: "Blackhawks recall Ben Smith from Rockford" (English, October 29, 2013, accessed December 5, 2013)
  5. ↑ nhl.com: Match report Oilers vs. Blackhawks (accessed December 5, 2013)
  6. ^ Smith traded to Sharks by Blackhawks for Desjardins. nhl.com, March 2, 2015, accessed March 3, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Dhiren Mahiban: Sharks acquire Reimer from Leafs in four player trade. (No longer available online.) Thehockeynews.com, February 27, 2016, archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thehockeynews.com
  8. ^ Avalanche Signs Ben Smith. avalanche.nhl.com, August 16, 2016, accessed on August 16, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ https://www.sportsnet.ca/more/captain-ben-smith-marlies-celebrate-winning-calder-cup/
  10. ↑ https://www.eishockeynews.de/aktuell/artikel/2018/06/15/mannheim-verpflichtung-frisch-gebackenen-calder-cup-sieger-und-ehemaligen-nhl-player-ben-smith.html
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Adler Mannheim's squad in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Benjamin Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Winston-Salem , North Carolina , United States