Colin Smith (ice hockey player)

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Flag of Canada and Germany.svg  Colin Smith Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 20, 1993
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position center
number # 89
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 7th round, 192nd position
Colorado Avalanche
KHL Junior Draft 2016 , 4th round, 98th position
Dinamo Riga
Career stations
2009-2013 Kamloops Blazers
2013-2015 Lake Erie Monsters
2015-2016 San Antonio Rampage
2016-2017 Toronto Marlies
2017 San Antonio Rampage
2017-2018 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2018 Stockton Heat
2018-2019 Polar bears Berlin
2019 ERC Ingolstadt
since 2019 Cologne Sharks

Colin Dean Smith (born June 20, 1993 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Kölner Haien in the DEL since November 2019 .

Career

Colin Smith began his career as a hockey player in 2006 with the CAC Canadians Bantam AAA in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League (AMBHL), a league for players under the age of 15 under the jurisdiction of Hockey Canada and Hockey Alberta . In 2008 he ran for the CAC Edmonton Canadians Mdgt AAA , who competed in the Alberta Midget Hockey League (AMHL). 2009/10 Smith had his first international appearance in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 for the Canada Pacific team. The following season he competed in the 2011 U18 World Junior Championship for Canada.

As a junior he made it into one of the three highest Canadian junior leagues, the WHL . Here he played from the 2008/09 season for the Kamloops Blazers for which he was active for 5 seasons. In his last season 2012/13 for the team from British Columbia he reached the Western Conference finals of the WHL and was the most successful player in the Blazers with 106 points, among the top 10 players with the highest points in the WHL this season and was in the first All Star Team of the Western Conference elected. He then received a three-year entry level contract from the Colorado Avalanche organization , which also included the eligibility to play for their respective AHL team.

Smith played two years in the AHL for the Lake Erie Monsters , there as the only player to play in all 76 games in his first professional season. In the 2014/15 game year he made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Colorado Avalanche . He was then transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs . He spent the 2017/18 season with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins and Stockton Heat . In total he was active for 5 seasons for 5 different teams in the AHL. He scored more than 30 points in each season, and in the 2015/16 season he was among the top 20 players in the league with 56 points.

On June 28, 2018 Colin Smith agreed to a one-year contract with the Eisbären Berlin in the DEL . In February 2019 he received German citizenship. For the following season 2019/20 he joined the league competitor ERC Ingolstadt . After 17 games (3 goals) for the club from Upper Bavaria , he moved within the league to the Kölner Haien .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Smith in the jersey of the Toronto Marlies (right)

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2008/09 Kamloops Blazers WHL 8th 0 4th 4th 4th 4th 0 1 1 0
2009/10 Kamloops Blazers WHL 48 5 21st 26th 46 4th 2 2 4th 2
2010/11 Kamloops Blazers WHL 72 21st 29 50 61 - - - - -
2011/12 Kamloops Blazers WHL 72 35 50 85 51 11 3 7th 10 12
2012/13 Kamloops Blazers WHL 72 41 65 107 72 12 2 12 14th 2
2013/14 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 76 8th 26th 34 66 - - - - -
2014/15 Colorado Avalanche NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2014/15 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 53 12 19th 31 22nd - - - - -
2015/16 San Antonio Rampage AHL 54 13 21st 34 33 - - - - -
2015/16 Toronto Marlies AHL 23 7th 15th 22nd 4th 9 1 4th 5 2
2016/17 Toronto Marlies AHL 52 8th 20th 28 22nd - - - - -
2016/17 San Antonio Rampage AHL 21st 6th 13 19th 10 - - - - -
2017/18 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 35 5 13 18th 12 - - - - -
2017/18 Stockton Heat AHL 24 4th 13 17th 16 - - - - -
WHL overall 272 102 169 271 234 31 7th 22nd 29 16
AHL total 338 63 140 203 185 9 1 4th 5 2
NHL overall 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 Canada Pacific U17-WHC 5th place 5 1 3 4th 4th
2011 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 7th 2 1 3 14th
Juniors overall 12 3 4th 7th 18th

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ambhl.ab.ca/constitution.php
  2. ↑ https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/hockey-programs/players/essentials/categories/bantam
  3. ↑ http://amhl.ab.ca/
  4. ↑ Colin Smith season highlights. blazerhockey.com, July 31, 2013, accessed August 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Colin Smith. hockeysfuture.com, accessed on August 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Marcel Stein: The Eisbären Berlin play with the right pass. In: morgenpost.de. February 7, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Colin Smith comes to ERC Ingolstadt for Daniel Sparre. hockeyweb.de, July 20, 2019, accessed on August 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Colin Smith is leaving the ERC and moving to Cologne. Donaukurier , November 21, 2019, accessed on November 21, 2019 .
Squad of the Kölner Haie in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Colin Dean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta , Canada