Yoren de Smet

Yoren de Smet
Date of birth	November 23, 1994
place of birth	Leuven , Belgium
size	172 cm
Weight	68 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2010-2011	East Hockey Club
2011-2013	IHC Leuven
2013-2014	Bulldogs de Liège
2014-2015	Tottenham Steam
since 2015	Bulldogs de Liège

Yoren de Smet (born November 23, 1994 in Leuven ) is a Belgian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Bulldogs de Liège since 2015 and plays in the Belgian-Dutch BeNe League .

Career

Yoren de Smet began his career in Finland at the East Hockey Club , in whose C-youth team he played. In 2011 he returned to his hometown Leuven , where he played for IHC Leuven in the Belgian honor division and in the 2011/12 season he also took part in the Belgian-Dutch North Sea Cup . In 2013 he won the Belgian championship title with the Chiefs . Despite this success, he left the IHC and joined the Bulldogs de Liège . With the team from Liège , he again won the championship title in 2014 and also the national cup competition . After spending 2014/15 at Tottenham Steam in Canada in the junior league GMHL, he returned to Liège and has since played with the Bulldogs in the newly founded BeNe League . In 2018 he was again Belgian cup winner with the club.

International

For Belgium, de Smet took part in the U18 World Championships in 2011 in Division II and 2012 in Division III, when, as the top scorer and best preparer of the tournament, he made a significant contribution to the immediate promotion to Division II and thus also to the best player in his team as well as the U20 World Championships in 2013 in Division II and 2014 in Division III. At the U20 World Cup in 2014, he was the captain of the Belgian youth team.

De Smet played for the men's national team at the 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 World Championships in Division II.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 Promotion to Division II, Group B, at the U18 World Championship Division III, Group A.
• 2012 Top scorer and best preparer at the U18 World Championship in Division III, Group A.
• 2013 Belgian champion with the IHC Leuven
• 2014 Promotion to Division II, Group B, at the U20 World Cup of Division III
• 2014 Belgian champion and cup winner with the Bulldogs de Liège
• 2018 Belgian cup winner with the Bulldogs de Liège

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Belgium regular season	3	34	17th	26th	43	18th
Belgium playoffs	1	7th	3	6th	9	6th
BeNe League regular season	3	45	25th	22nd	47	50
BeNe League playoffs	3	10	4th	3	7th	39

(As of the end of the 2017/18 season)

Web links

• Yoren de Smet at eliteprospects.com (English)