Mike Smith (ice hockey player)

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Mike Smith
Date of birth March 22, 1982
place of birth Kingston , Ontario , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 95 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 41
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 5th round, 161st position
Dallas Stars
Career stations
1999-2000 Kingston Frontenacs
2000-2002 Sudbury Wolves
2002-2003 Lexington Men O'War
2003-2004 Utah grizzlies
2004-2005 Houston Eros
2005-2006 Iowa stars
2006-2008 Dallas Stars
2008-2011 Tampa Bay Lightning
2011-2017 Phoenix / Arizona Coyotes
2017-2019 Calgary Flames
since 2019 Edmonton Oilers

Mike Smith (born March 22, 1982 in Kingston , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . Previously he was active in the NHL for the Calgary Flames , Dallas Stars , Tampa Bay Lightning and Phoenix / Arizona Coyotes . With the Canadian national team , he won gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2015 World Cup .

Career

Smith in the Phoenix Coyotes jersey

Smith began his career in 1999 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League with the Kingston Frontenacs in his hometown. There he shared the goalkeeping post with Andrew Raycroft , who later played for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League . At the beginning of the 2000/01 season Smith left Kingston in the direction of Sudbury Wolves , who also played in the OHL, where he completed 43 games with a goal average of 2.52 and 91.3 percent saved shots. He was drawn after his first year in Sudbury in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars in 161st place in the fifth round, but remained in the OHL for another year.

As a professional player, the goalkeeper moved to the East Coast Hockey League in 2002 . In the service of the Lexington Men O'War , he managed to score a shutout and a goal in one game . At the same time, the game was his first win as a professional. In the same season he was also eleven times for the Utah Grizzlies in the American Hockey League , where he represented Jason Bacashihua and Corey Hirsch .

After he completed the 2004/05 season with the Houston Eros in the AHL and performed well, Smith played for the Iowa Stars , the AHL farm team of the Dallas Stars. Here he shared the position of goalkeeper with Dan Ellis and came to 50 games, which he completed with an average goal against 2.5 and a catch rate of 91.7%. He helped the Iowa Stars, who had only been founded in 2005, in their first play-offs , in which he was able to keep his performances constant and was also able to prevail as number 1 against Ellis. In April 2006 he was named Player of the Month. Smith also posted the first shutout in the short history of the Iowa Stars. In January 2006, Smith made his debut in the Stars' shirt when he was on the bench for a game as a substitute for Johan Hedberg , who represented Marty Turco , but was not used.

In the 2006/07 season , Smith played as Marty Turco's back-up for the Dallas Stars. Smith received a one-year contract from the stars. He celebrated his NHL debut on October 21, 2006 and crowned an outstanding performance with his first NHL shutout. In June 2007, he was finally elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team . He was also awarded a $ 1.9 million two-year contract. Also in the 2007/08 season Smith convinced with good performances and continued to form the goalkeeper team of the Dallas Stars with Turco. At the end of February 2008 he was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning together with Jussi Jokinen and Jeff Halpern , who sent Brad Richards and Johan Holmqvist to Dallas. Smith was supposed to take the place as a regular goalkeeper at Tampa Bay.

After more than three years in Tampa, Smith received a free agent contract for two years with the Phoenix Coyotes on July 1, 2011 . He later extended this for another six years to a total salary of 34 million US dollars until the summer of 2019. In the 2013-14 season, Smith scored only the eleventh goalkeeper in NHL history. Two years before his existing contract expired, Smith was transferred to the Calgary Flames in mid-June 2017 in exchange for goalkeeper Chad Johnson and junior player Brandon Hickey . Arizona - the franchise changed its name in 2014 - took on a quarter of his ex-player's salary for the remaining two years of the contract.

After completing his contract in Calgary, Smith joined the Edmonton Oilers as a free agent in July 2019 , signing a one-year contract.

International

Smith represented his home country at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2013 and in the Czech Republic in 2015 . He led the team at the 2015 World Cup as a regular goalkeeper to win the gold medal. As the third goalkeeper in the squad with the maple leaves , he had already recorded his first international success the year before by winning the Olympic title. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , Smith was left behind Carey Price and Roberto Luongo .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U / OT Min. GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min. GT SO GTS Sv%
1999/00 Kingston Frontenacs OHL 15th 4th 4th 8th 666 42 0 3.78 89.4 - - - - - - - -
2000/01 Kingston Frontenacs OHL 3 0 0 3 137 8th 0 3.51 89.6 - - - - - - - -
2000/01 Sudbury Wolves OHL 43 22nd 10 14th 2572 108 3 2.52 92.0 12 7th 5 735 26th 2 2.12 92.1
2001/02 Sudbury Wolves OHL 53 19th 24 14th 3083 157 3 3.06 92.1 5 1 4th 303 15th 0 2.97 92.4
2002/03 Lexington Men O'War ECHL 27 11 10 4th 1553 66 1 2.55 91.0 2 0 1 93 8th 0 5.14 82.2
2002/03 Utah grizzlies AHL 11 5 5 0 614 33 0 3.23 90.6 - - - - - - - -
2003/04 Utah grizzlies AHL 21st 8th 11 0 1186 56 2 2.83 90.8 - - - - - - - -
2004/05 Houston Eros AHL 45 19th 17th 3 2408 97 5 2.42 91.5 3 1 2 181 4th 0 1.33 95.7
2005/06 Iowa stars AHL 50 25th 19th 6th 2998 125 3 2.50 91.7 7th 3 4th 417 19th 0 2.74 90.7
2006/07 Dallas Stars NHL 23 12 5 2 1213 45 3 2.23 91.2 - - - - - - - -
2007/08 Dallas Stars NHL 21st 12 9 0 1172 48 2 2.46 90.6 - - - - - - - -
2007/08 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 13 3 10 0 774 36 1 2.79 89.3 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 41 14th 18th 9 2471 108 2 2.62 91.6 - - - - - - - -
2009/10 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 42 13 18th 7th 2273 117 2 3.09 90.0 - - - - - - - -
2010/11 Norfolk Admirals AHL 5 1 4th 0 296 9 1 1.83 92.4 - - - - - - - -
2010/11 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 22nd 13 6th 1 1202 58 1 2.90 89.9 3 1 1 120 2 0 1.00 95.8
2011/12 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 67 38 18th 10 3903 144 8th 2.21 93.0 16 9 7th 1027 34 3 1.99 94.4
2012/13 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 34 15th 12 5 1956 84 5 2.58 91.0 - - - - - - - -
2013/14 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 62 27 21st 10 3610 159 3 2.64 91.5 - - - - - - - -
2014/15 Arizona Coyotes NHL 62 14th 42 5 3556 187 0 3.16 90.4 - - - - - - - -
2015/16 Arizona Coyotes NHL 32 15th 13 2 1754 77 3 2.63 91.6 - - - - - - - -
2016/17 Arizona Coyotes NHL 55 19th 26th 9 3203 156 3 2.92 91.4 - - - - - - - -
2017/18 Calgary Flames NHL 55 25th 22nd 6th 3191 141 3 2.65 91.6 - - - - - - - -
2018/19 Calgary Flames NHL 42 23 16 2 2401 109 2 2.73 89.8 5 1 4th 319 17th 1 3.20 91.7
2019/20 Edmonton Oilers NHL 39 19th 12 6th 2157 106 1 2.95 90.2 1 0 1 27 5 0 11.31 78.3
OHL total 114 45 38 39 6458 315 6th 2.93 91.7 17th 8th 9 1038 41 2 2.37 92.2
AHL total 132 62 56 9 7502 320 11 2.56 91.4 10 4th 6th 598 23 0 2.31 92.2
NHL overall 610 262 248 74 34834 1575 39 2.71 91.1 25th 11 13 1493 58 4th 2.33 93.4

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp S. N Min. GT SO GTS Sv%
2013 Canada WM 5th place 4th 2 2 255 7th 1 1.65 94.4
2014 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold Without any effort
2015 Canada WM 1st place, gold 8th 8th 0 480 12 2 1.50 93.0
Men overall 12 10 2 735 19th 3 1.55 93.6

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

family

Mike Smith is married to former Canadian ski racer Brigitte Acton ; the wedding took place on September 3, 2010.

Web links

Commons : Mike Smith  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/sport/Mike-Smith-schmettert-den-Puck-ins-Tor-article11574666.html
  2. ↑ Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Dan Ellis laments Twitter controversy. (No longer available online.) Tampa Bay, September 10, 2010, archived from the original on September 17, 2010 ; accessed on October 22, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tampabay.com
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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston (Ontario) , Ontario, Canada