Bobby Smith (ice hockey)
Robert David Smith is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. Smith is majority owner of the Halifax Mooseheads junior hockey team. He played for the Minnesota North Stars and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League. Smith was born in North Sydney, Nova Scotia.Playing career
As a junior playing for the Ottawa 67's in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League in the 1977–78 season, Smith set league records that still stand more than thirty years later for most assists and most points in a single season. The 20 year old Smith beat out 17 year old Wayne Gretzky for that year's OMJHL scoring title, while also winning the Red Tilson Trophy as the OMJHL's most outstanding player and was voted the CHL Player of the Year for the entire Canadian Hockey League. He was drafted first overall in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft by Minnesota, winning the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1979 during his rookie campaign and won the Stanley Cup in 1986 with Montreal.
Smith is currently the majority owner of the Halifax Mooseheads in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, also serving as head coach for most of the 2010-11 season. He also served as general manager of the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes from 1996 to 2000.Achievements and awards
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