Greg Smith (ice hockey player)

Greg Smith
Date of birth	July 18, 1955
place of birth	Ponoka , Alberta , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1975 , 4th lap, 57th position California Golden Seals
WHA Amateur Draft	1975 , 7th lap, 94th position Calgary Cowboys
Career stations
1972-1973	Calgary Canucks
1973-1976	Colorado College
1976	California Golden Seals Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1976-1988	Cleveland Barons
1978-1981	Minnesota North Stars
1981-1986	Detroit Red Wings
1986-1988	Washington Capitals

Gregory James Smith (born July 18, 1955 in Ponoka , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 892 games for the California Golden Seals , Cleveland Barons , Minnesota North Stars , Detroit Red Wings during his playing career between 1973 and 1988 and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League on the position of the defender has denied.

Career

Smith spent his junior years in the Alberta Junior Hockey League with the Calgary Canucks until 1973 , before the Canadian ventured from there the rather unusual route to a US university. The defense attorney studied at Colorado College from the summer of 1973 . In parallel, he played in the following three years for the university team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . During this time, Smith was both in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft in the fourth round in 57th place by the California Golden Seals from the National Hockey League and in the WHA Amateur Draft in 1975 in the seventh round in 94th position by the Calgary Cowboys from the World Hockey Association selected.

After completing his studies, Smith was appointed to the end of the 1975/76 season by the California Golden Seals in their NHL squad and made his professional debut there. He also played other games for the cooperation partner Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the Central Hockey League . With the beginning of the 1976/77 season , the defender stood for the following two seasons in the roster of the Cleveland Barons , after the franchise from Oakland , California to Richfield , Ohio to Cleveland had been relocated. When the Cleveland franchise went over to the Minnesota North Stars after two years of gaming in the summer of 1978 , Smith was one of the players who were taken over by Minnesota in the 1978 NHL Dispersal Draft .

He played another three years for the team in the NHL, before he was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings in August 1981 together with the transfer rights to Don Murdoch and a first-round option in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 . In return, Minnesota received a first-round vote in the same draft from the Red Wings. Smith ran a total of almost five years for the Red Wings before another transfer business led him to the Washington Capitals at the end of the 1985/86 season . While John Barrett moved to the capital with him , Detroit received Darren Veitch . After two years of playing in Washington, Smith ended his active career in the summer of 1988 at the age of 33 and 892 NHL appearances.

International

For his homeland Smith took in the years 1977 in the Austrian capital Vienna and in 1979 in Moscow respectively at the World Cup in part. In both competitions, the striker missed winning a medal with the maple leaves with fourth place in the final ranking . Smith played a total of 15 World Cup games for the Canadian national team and recorded two scorer points, including one goal.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1972/73	Calgary Canucks	AJHL		58	14th	19th	33	116		-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	Colorado College	WCHA		31	7th	13	20th	80
1974/75	Colorado College	WCHA		36	10	24	34	75
1975/76	Colorado College	WCHA		34	18th	19th	37	123
1975/76	California Golden Seals	NHL		1	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	Salt Lake Golden Eagles	CHL		5	0	2	2	2		5	1	2	3	4th
1976/77	Cleveland Barons	NHL		74	9	17th	26th	65		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Cleveland Barons	NHL		80	7th	30th	37	92		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		80	5	27	32	147		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		55	5	13	18th	103		12	0	1	1	9
1980/81	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		74	5	21st	26th	126		19th	1	5	6th	39
1981/82	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		69	10	22nd	32	79		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		73	4th	26th	30th	79		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		75	3	20th	23	108		4th	1	0	1	8th
1984/85	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		73	2	18th	20th	117		3	0	0	0	7th
1985/86	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		62	5	19th	24	84		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Washington Capitals	NHL		14th	0	3	3	10		9	2	1	3	9
1986/87	Washington Capitals	NHL		45	0	9	9	31		7th	0	0	0	11
1987/88	Washington Capitals	NHL		54	1	6th	7th	67		9	0	0	0	23
NCAA overall				101	35	56	91	278
NHL overall				829	56	232	288	1110		63	4th	7th	11	106

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 1977
• World Championship 1979

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1977	Canada	WM	4th Place		10	1	1	2	4th
1979	Canada	WM	4th Place		5	0	0	0	12
Men overall					15th	1	1	2	16

( 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

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