Bobby Smith (ice hockey)
Robert David "Bobby" Smith ( born February 12, 1958 in North Sydney, Nova Scotia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player (Center) and current coach, who from 1978 to 1993 for the Minnesota North Stars and the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League played.
Career
As a junior, he played in the OHA for the Ottawa 67 's. After an outstanding season with 192 points, he was selected stars at the NHL Amateur Draft 1978 first overall by the Minnesota North. He had played this year for Canada at the Junior World Championship.
Buy in the 1978/79 season he made the breakthrough in the North Stars with 30 goals and 74 points, he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie. In his third year in Minnesota he made with the team a place in the Stanley Cup Finals, but there were the New York Islanders can not be overcome at this time.
Over the 1983/84 season, the North Stars gave him to the Montreal Canadiens from. There he could win in 1986, together with the outstanding rookie goalie Patrick Roy his first and only Stanley Cup. After a defeat in the Cup Finals in 1989, he moved to season 1990/91 back to the Minnesota North Stars.
Back in Minnesota, he could move in immediately a second time in the finals, this time it was the Pittsburgh Penguins Mario Lemieux order that prevented his second Stanley Cup victory. He stayed two years with the North Stars and reached at this time as 32 NHL players, the 1,000 -point mark. In 1993 he ended his active career.
From 1997 to 2000 he was with the Phoenix Coyotes General Manager. Since 2003 he is the owner of the Halifax Mooseheads, a hockey franchise from the QMJHL. In October 2010 he took over as head coach of the succession of Cam Russell at the Mooseheads, who survived the franchise as general manager.