Jordan Smotherman

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Jordan Smotherman
Date of birth May 11, 1986
place of birth Corvallis , Oregon , USA
size 191 cm
Weight 96 kg
position Left wing
number # 17
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2005 , 4th round, 116th position
Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
2002-2006 Québec Remparts
2006-2009 Chicago Wolves
2009-2010 Syracuse crunch
2010-2011 Providence Bruins
2011–2012 EfB Ishockey
2012-2013 Tingsryd's AIF
2013-2014 Karlskrona HK
2014-2015 Pelicans
2015-2016 Rögle BK
2016-2018 Manchester monarchs
2017 MODO hockey
2018-2019 Iserlohn Roosters
since 2019 Belfast Giants

Jordan LaVallée-Smotherman (born May 11, 1986 in Corvallis , Oregon ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Belfast Giants in the Elite Ice Hockey League since February 2019 .

Career

Jordan LaVallée-Smotherman began his career as an ice hockey player with the Québec Remparts , for which he was active from 2002 to 2006 in the Canadian top junior league Québec Major Junior Hockey League . During this time he was selected in the fourth round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft as the 116th player of the Atlanta Thrashers .

After the attacker was on the ice in the 2006/07 season exclusively for Atlanta's farm team from the American Hockey League , the Chicago Wolves , he made his debut in the National Hockey League for Atlanta the following season . In addition, LaVallée-Smotherman won the Calder Cup with the Chicago Wolves in the 2007/08 season . In the 2008/09 season , in which the left shooter again mainly played for the Wolves in the AHL, the American played two more times for the Thrashers in the NHL. After the Thrashers transferred him to the Columbus Blue Jackets in October 2009 , the winger spent the following two seasons exclusively in the American Hockey League.

For the 2011/12 season he decided to work for the Danish first division club EfB Ishockey in the AL-Bank Ligaen . The American ended the season with 31 goals and 29 assists and was both the best in points and the most dangerous player in Denmark's top division. In April 2012 he moved to Tingsryds AIF , where he was assistant captain of the team in the 2012/13 season . In May 2013 he signed with the league competitor Karlskrona HK and was able to recommend himself there with 42 scorer points from 47 season games, so that he was signed by the Pelicans from the Finnish Liiga for the 2014/15 season . After only 38 games, the left shooter returned to Sweden in January 2015 and joined the second division club Rögle BK . With ten goals in the remaining 12 main round games and six goals in ten relegation games, he played a major role in the promotion of his team to the Svenska Hockeyligan . After another year in Rögle, he signed an annual contract with the Iserlohn Roosters from the German Ice Hockey League . Since Smotherman failed the sports medical examination in August 2016, the contract did not materialize. He spent the following two years with the Manchester Monarchs from the ECHL , where he was assistant captain in the 2017/18 season and was elected to the First All-Star Team of the ECHL, the Springfield Thunderbirds from the AHL , and the Swedish team MODO Hockey , before joining the Roosters again in the summer of 2018.

In February 2019 Smotherman left the Roosters and moved to the Belfast Giants in the Elite Ice Hockey League . He has been a player-coach there since summer 2019.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2002/03 Québec Remparts QMJHL 55 3 6th 9 54 4th 11 0 1 1 0 0
2003/04 Québec Remparts QMJHL 69 11 16 27 111 -14 5 2 0 2 6th 1
2004/05 Québec Remparts QMJHL 64 40 26th 66 108 28 13 5 2 7th 26th –7
2005/06 Québec Remparts QMJHL 37 18th 19th 37 34 5 23 7th 8th 15th 30th 1
2006/07 Chicago Wolves AHL 79 16 18th 34 90 -1 14th 7th 1 8th 8th 1
2007/08 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 2 1 1 2 0 2 - - - - - -
2007/08 Chicago Wolves AHL 76 20th 22nd 42 73 0 23 3 5 8th 16 -2
2008/09 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 2 0 0 0 0 -1 - - - - - -
2008/09 Chicago Wolves AHL 64 18th 12 30th 94 -14 - - - - - -
2009/10 Syracuse crunch AHL 78 10 22nd 32 75 -1 - - - - - -
2010/11 Providence Bruins AHL 71 14th 12 26th 68 -2 - - - - - -
2011/12 EfB Ishockey THE 39 31 29 60 73 5 1 3 4th 10
2012/13 Tingsryd's AIF HA 52 24 12 36 126 -3 10 2 6th 8th 18th 3
2013/14 Karlskrona HK HA 47 23 20th 43 75 18th 6th 4th 8th 12 6th 1
2014/15 Pelicans Liiga 38 11 9 20th 45 -1 - - - - - -
2014/15 Rögle BK HA 12 10 3 13 16 4th 10 6th 3 9 10 2
2015/16 Rögle BK SHL 52 14th 5 19th 16 -8th - - - - - -
QMJHL total 225 72 67 139 307 23 52 14th 11 25th 62 -5
AHL total 368 78 86 164 400 -18 37 10 6th 16 24 -1
NHL overall 4th 1 1 2 0 1 - - - - - -
HA total 111 57 35 92 217 19th 26th 12 17th 29 34 6th

( 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 )

Personal

Smotherman grew up in Corvallis , Oregon , and moved with his family to Westborough , Massachusetts, when he was twelve .

During his time in the French-influenced Québec Major Junior Hockey League , Smotherman ran under the French-Canadian surname of his mother as Jordan LaVallée or Jordan LaVallée-Smotherman , because he was of the opinion that the name had a better effect on his environment in this form . It was only when he switched to the Columbus Blue Jackets organization in 2009 that the striker decided to move to Jordan Smotherman in order to keep his father in memory, who had died the year before.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ iserlohn-roosters.de: Smotherman falls through sports medicine examination
personal data
SURNAME Smotherman, Jordan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LaVallee, Jordan; LaVallée, Jordan; LaVallee-Smotherman, Jordan; LaVallée-Smotherman, Jordan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Corvallis , Oregon , USA