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
- 2006 Memorial Cup win with the Québec Remparts
- 2008 Calder Cup win with the Chicago Wolves
- 2012 top scorer in the AL-Bank Ligaen
- 2015 Promotion to the Svenska Hockeyligan with Rögle BK
- 2018 ECHL First All-Star Team
- 2019 EIHL Champion ( British Champion ) with the Belfast Giants
- 2019 EIHL Challenge Cup win with the Belfast Giants
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||||
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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
- Jordan Smotherman at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Jordan Smotherman at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ iserlohn-roosters.de: Smotherman falls through sports medicine examination
personal data | |
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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 |