Derek Smith (ice hockey player, 1984)

Derek Smith
Date of birth	October 13, 1984
place of birth	Belleville , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2004	Wellington Dukes
2004-2007	Lake Superior State University
2007-2011	Binghamton Senators
2011-2014	Calgary Flames
2013-2014	Abbotsford Heat
2014-2015	ZSC Lions
2015-2016	Springfield Falcons
2016-2017	KHL Medveščak Zagreb

Derek Smith (born October 13, 1984 in Belleville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Derek Smith began his career as a hockey player with the Wellington Dukes, for which he was active from 2000 to 2004 in the Ontario Junior Hockey League . He then attended Lake Superior State University for three years , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . On April 12, 2007, the defense attorney signed a free agent contract with the Ottawa Senators . For their farm team Binghamton Senators he played regularly in the American Hockey League from 2007 to 2011 and won the Calder Cup with the team in the 2010/11 season . He also played a game for the Elmira Jackals from the ECHL during this period . From 2009 to 2011 he was on the ice in a total of eleven games for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League , but initially could not assert himself there.

For the 2011/12 season Smith moved within the NHL to the Calgary Flames , where he scored two goals and nine assists in 47 games in his first year.

In 2014 Smith moved to the ZSC Lions in the National League A , where he spent a season before returning to North America and joining the Arizona Coyotes . They used him for the time being with their AHL farm team, the Springfield Falcons , before he returned to Europe in summer 2016 and signed a contract with KHL Medveščak Zagreb .

In the 2016/17 season, Smith tested positive for doping and banned from the world association until September 2018.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 Calder Cup win with the Binghamton Senators

NHL statistics

Status: end of the 2014/15 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	5	94	2	12	14th	24
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Derek Smith at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Derek Smith at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "The KHL player Danis Saripow, the ex-ZSC defender Derek Smith and Andrej Konew banned for doping" Tagblatt July 25, 2017 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.