Derek Smith (ice hockey player, 1984)
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 | |
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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
- ↑ "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.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Smith, Derek |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Belleville , Ontario , Canada |