Zack Smith

Zack Smith
Date of birth	April 5, 1988
place of birth	Maple Creek , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	center
number	# 15
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 3rd round, 79th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2004-2008	Swift Current Broncos
2008	Manitoba mosses
2008-2010	Binghamton Senators
2010-2019	Ottawa Senators
since 2019	Chicago Blackhawks

Zachary "Zack" Smith (born April 5, 1988 in Maple Creek , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays there on the position of the center . His uncle Barry Dean was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Zack Smith began his career as a hockey player with the Swift Current Broncos , for which he was active from 2004 to 2008 in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League . He was able to convince especially in the 2007/08 season, in which he scored 80 scorer points, including 27 goals, in a total of 84 games as team captain. He then ended the 2007/08 season with the Manitoba Moose , for which he was an assist in six games in the American Hockey League . On August 14, 2008 he signed a contract as a free agent with the Ottawa Senators , who had selected him in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in the third round as a total of 79th player. In the 2008/09 season he then played for Ottawa's farm team Binghamton Senators in the AHL. He scored 24 goals and 24 assists in 79 games. He also came on November 29, 2008 in the away game with the New York Islanders to his debut in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators.

Also in the 2009/10 season Smith played mostly for the Binghamton Senators in the AHL, while he came to 21 appearances for Ottawa in the NHL. After he began the following season again at Binghamton in the AHL, he was able to earn a regular place in Ottawa in the NHL during the season. He spent the lockout of the 2012/13 season with the Frederikshavn White Hawks in Denmark.

In January 2017, Smith signed a new four-year contract in Ottawa that should earn him an average annual salary of $ 3.25 million. However, Smith only fulfilled half of this contract in Ottawa, as he was given to the Chicago Blackhawks in July 2019 in exchange for the Russian Artyom Anissimow . Smith left the franchise from the Canadian capital after a total of eleven years .

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 Calder Cup win with the Binghamton Senators

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2004/05	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		14th	1	1	2	-4	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		64	2	5	7th	-5	78		3	0	0	0	± 0	9
2006/07	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		71	16	15th	31	-18	130		6th	0	2	2	–6	11
2007/08	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		72	22nd	48	70	+31	136		12	5	5	10	-1	29
2007/08	Manitoba mosses	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		6th	0	1	1	+1	0
2008/09	Binghamton Senators	AHL		79	24	24	48	-4	132		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Ottawa Senators	NHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Binghamton Senators	AHL		68	14th	27	41	–7	100		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Ottawa Senators	NHL		15th	2	1	3	+1	14th		6th	0	0	0	-4	5
2010/11	Binghamton Senators	AHL		22nd	7th	5	12	+3	32		23	8th	12	20th	-5	36
2010/11	Ottawa Senators	NHL		55	4th	5	9	–11	120		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Ottawa Senators	NHL		81	14th	12	26th	+4	98		7th	0	1	1	-2	10
2012/13	Frederikshavn White Hawks	AL-Bank Ligaen		7th	4th	6th	10		18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Ottawa Senators	NHL		48	4th	11	15th	–9	56		10	1	1	2	-2	31
2013/14	Ottawa Senators	NHL		82	13	9	22nd	–9	111		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Binghamton Senators	NHL		2	1	1	2	+1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ottawa Senators	NHL		37	2	1	3	-8th	18th		3	0	0	0	-1	0
2015/16	Ottawa Senators	NHL		81	25th	11	36	+16	80		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ottawa Senators	NHL		74	16	16	32	+6	61		19th	1	5	6th	-5	12
2017/18	Ottawa Senators	NHL		68	5	14th	19th	-32	54		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ottawa Senators	NHL		70	9	19th	28	–6	81		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				221	41	69	110	+4	344		21st	5	7th	12	–7	49
AHL total				171	46	57	103	–7	266		29	8th	13	21st	-4	36
NHL overall				612	94	99	193	-48	693		45	2	7th	9	-14	58

( 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

• Player biography on the Chicago Blackhawks website
• Zack Smith at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Zack Smith at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sens sign Zack Smith to four-year contract extension. nhl.com, January 23, 2017, accessed January 31, 2017 .