Clint Smith

Clint Smith
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1991
Date of birth	December 12, 1913
place of birth	Assiniboia , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death	May 19, 2009
Place of death	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	173 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1930-1931	Saskatoon Wesleys
1931-1933	Saskatoon Crescents
1933-1936	Vancouver Lions
1936-1937	Philadelphia Ramblers
1937-1943	New York Rangers
1943-1947	Chicago Black Hawks
1947-1948	Tulsa Oilers
1948-1951	St. Paul Saints
1951-1952	Cincinnati Mohawks

Clinton James "Clint" Smith (born December 12, 1913 in Assiniboia , Saskatchewan , † May 19, 2009 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) was a Canadian ice hockey player (center) and coach who worked for the New York Rangers and from 1936 to 1947 Chicago Black Hawks played in the National Hockey League .

Career

After a few years in Saskatoon and Vancouver, he didn't come to the east coast until he was 23. After almost a full season with the Philadelphia Ramblers in the International American Hockey League , he made his NHL debut with the New York Rangers at the end of the 1936/37 season . In his first full season in the NHL, he was the second best scorer on his team and made it into the top ten scorers in the league. When the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in the 1939/40 season , he was one of the top performers on the team. In addition to the goal risk that he posed, it was his fairness that earned him great respect from his teammates. At the end of the 1940/41 season he had to serve only four penalty minutes in his 187 games. This style of play earned him the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy twice .

As a free agent , he moved to the Chicago Black Hawks for the 1943/44 season . There he played in a storm series with Bill Mosienko and Doug Bentley . With 49 assists, he set a new record in the NHL. The rule change, which allowed teams to take the goalkeeper off the ice in favor of an additional field player, he made use of. He was the first player in the NHL to score in such a situation. Even with four hits in a third, in a game against the Montreal Canadiens in March 1945, he set a new NHL record.

After the end of the 1946/47 season he left the NHL and was active as a player-coach in the United States Hockey League. Here the Tulsa Oilers and St. Paul Saints were his teams. After a season with the Cincinnati Mohawks in the American Hockey League , he returned to the West Coast.

In 1991 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	11	483	161	236	397	24
Playoffs	7th	76	10	14th	24	2

Sporting successes

• Stanley Cup : 1940

Personal awards

• Lady Byng Memorial Trophy : 1939 and 1944

Web links

• Clint Smith in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
• Clint Smith at hockeydb.com (English)