Derrick Smith

Derrick Smith
Date of birth	January 22, 1965
place of birth	Scarborough , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1983 , 3rd lap, 44th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1981-1982	Wexford Raiders
1982-1984	Peterborough Petes
1984-1991	Philadelphia Flyers
1991-1992	Minnesota North Stars
1992-1995	Kalamazoo Wings
1995-1998	Michigan K-Wings
1999	Baton Rouge Kingfish

Derrick Smith (* 22. January 1965 in Scarborough , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career 1981-1999 among other 619 games for the Philadelphia Flyers , Minnesota North Stars and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League on has contested the position of the left winger .

Career

Smith, who spent a season with the Wexford Raiders in the Ontario Provincial Junior Hovkey League between 1981 and 1982 , played between 1982 and 1984 for the Peterborough Petes in the senior junior Ontario Hockey League . During his time there, the left winger was selected in the third round of the 1983 NHL Entry Draft in 44th place by the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League . For the Petes, he completed 148 games over a period of two years.

For the 1984/85 season , the attacker switched to the professional field and was an integral part of the NHL squad of the Philadelphia Flyers for the following seven years of play until the summer of 1991. His performances were exposed to great fluctuations. After setting a personal best with 39 points scorer in his rookie year , he scored only twelve points the following year. This was followed by three seasons with 24 or more points, before it was only nine again in the 1989/90 season . In October 1991 he was finally selected on the waiver list by the Minnesota North Stars , who thus took over the Canadian's contract. After two years with the team from his home state, he moved to Dallas , Texas, in the summer of 1993 , where the franchise continued to operate under the name Dallas Stars .

For the stars themselves, Smith completed only one game in the 1993/94 season . Instead, he was mainly used in the Kalamazoo Wings farm team in the International Hockey League until 1995 , where he had already played more minutes during his time with the North Stars. With the beginning of the 1995/96 season , the Kalamazoo Wings played under the name Michigan K-Wings . Smith stayed with the team until the summer of 1998. In 1994 he was appointed to the IHL Second All-Star Team. His last games as a professional he completed in the course of the 1998/99 season for the Baton Rouge Kingfish in the East Coast Hockey League , where he had signed a contract as a free agent in March 1999 . After six missions, he ended his active career at the age of 34.

Achievements and Awards

• 1994 IHL Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1981/82	Wexford Raiders	OPJHL		45	35	47	82	40		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Peterborough Petes	OHL		70	16	19th	35	47		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Peterborough Petes	OHL		70	30th	36	66	31		8th	4th	4th	8th	7th
1984/85	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		77	17th	22nd	39	31		19th	2	5	7th	16
1985/86	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		69	6th	6th	12	57		4th	0	0	0	10
1986/87	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		71	11	21st	32	34		26th	6th	4th	10	26th
1987/88	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		76	16	8th	24	104		7th	0	0	0	6th
1988/89	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		74	16	14th	30th	43		19th	5	2	7th	12
1989/90	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		55	3	6th	9	32		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		72	11	10	21st	37		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		33	2	4th	6th	33		7th	1	0	1	9
1991/92	Kalamazoo Wings	IHL		6th	1	5	6th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		9	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Kalamazoo Wings	IHL		52	22nd	13	35	43		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Dallas Stars	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Kalamazoo Wings	IHL		77	44	37	81	90		5	0	0	0	18th
1994/95	Kalamazoo Wings	IHL		68	30th	21st	51	103		16	3	8th	11	8th
1995/96	Michigan K-Wings	IHL		69	15th	26th	41	79		10	4th	3	7th	16
1996/97	Michigan K-Wings	IHL		68	8th	21st	29	55		4th	1	0	1	16
1997/98	Michigan K-Wings	IHL		64	15th	26th	41	39		4th	1	1	2	2
1998/99	Baton Rouge Kingfish	ECHL		6th	3	7th	10	9		6th	0	0	0	0
OHL total				140	46	55	101	78		8th	4th	4th	8th	7th
IHL total				404	135	149	284	413		39	9	12	21st	60
NHL overall				537	82	92	174	373		82	14th	11	25th	79

( 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 )

family

Smith is related by marriage to Keith Primeau and Wayne Primeau . Both played as ice hockey players in the 1990s and 2000s several hundred games in the National Hockey League for numerous teams. His nephew Cayden Primeau , who is active in the position of goalkeeper , was selected by the Canadiens de Montréal in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft .

Web links

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