Bryan Smolinski

Bryan Anthony Smolinski (* December 27, 1971 in Toledo, Ohio ) is an American professional ice hockey player who was most recently with the Flint Generals of the International Hockey League contract. During his career he played for the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Islanders, Los Angeles Kings, Ottawa Senators, Chicago Blackhawks, Vancouver Canucks and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.

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Career

Smolinski began his career in the hockey team from Michigan State University, where he was active in the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1989 to 1993. He won with the team in his rookie season, the championship trophy of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. In addition, the striker was appointed to two All-Star teams in 1993. In 158 NCAA games he scored 181 points and received a total of 221 ​​penalty minutes. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 in the first round than a total of 21 players from the Boston Bruins.

His first experience in the National Hockey League collected the Centre in the 1992/93 season, when he ran aground in 13 games for Boston and scored five points scorer. Already in the next season of Americans has been an important part of the team and was able to impose as a regular player. In 83 NHL games, he reached 51 points and was thus together with Alexandre Daigle of the Senators of the fifth-best rookie scorer of the season 1993 / 94th With the team, he qualified for the play- offs and defeated in the first round of the Montreal Canadiens before the team in the following round in six games lost the series against the New Jersey Devils. Even in the following year was Smolinski at the Bruins under contract and qualified again with the team in the shortened by a lockout season 1994/95 for the play- offs. In the first round, however, the team was defeated in five games against the New Jersey Devils and thus failed again to this.

On 2 August 1995, the Bruins announced a transfer business with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Smolinski joined together with Glen Murray and a third-round draft pick in exchange for Kevin Stevens and Shawn McEachern to Pittsburgh. In his only season in Pittsburgh with the Penguins, he managed a place in the play-offs and defeated in the first two rounds of the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers. In the Conference Finals, he was defeated by the team in seven games against the Florida Panthers. In a total of 99 NHL games for the Penguins Smolinski scored 73 points scorer. In November 1996 he was given in exchange for Darius Kasparaitis and Andreas Johansson at the New York Islanders. He played in the 1996/97 season six games for the Detroit Vipers of the International Hockey League and then completed the rest of the season in the NHL team the Islanders. The team missed the Islanders for three consecutive years a place in the play-offs. In June 1999, followed by an exchange transaction between the Islanders and the Los Angeles Kings. Smolinski was transferred together with Žigmund Palffy, Marcel Cousineau and a fourth- round choice in exchange for Olli Jokinen law, Josh Green, Mathieu Biron and a first-round draft pick to the Kings.

In his first season in Los Angeles with the Kings, he reached a place in the play-offs, but the first round went in four games against the Detroit Red Wings lost. In the two following years, the team achieved a yield point of about 40 points and the repeated qualification for the finals. It could not find any significant results are recorded and the offensive player failed with Californians respectively against the Colorado Avalanche. In the season 2002/ 03 to qualify for the play-offs was missed and Smolinski was released to the Ottawa Senators a few weeks before the end of the regular season in March 2003. With the Senators the advance succeeded to the Conference Finals, where the team failed only in seven games to the New Jersey Devils. After another year in Ottawa, his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2004 and the Americans signed in February 2005 with the Motor City Mechanics in the United Hockey League. There he was employed in 21 games and reached 32 points scorer with 18 penalty minutes. In the summer of 2005 he returned to the Senators and managed again to jump to the NHL squad. In 81 games the following season he scored 48 points scorer and the team a place in the play-offs. After the Senators defeated in the first round, Tampa Bay Lightning, followed in the next round after five games against the Buffalo Sabres re leaving the competition.

On 10 July 2006, the Senators announced a barter trade with the Chicago Blackhawks, Smolinski was transferred together with Martin Havlát to Chicago. In exchange for the Senators Tom Price Sing, Josh Hennessy, Michal Barinka and a second-round draft pick received. The attacking players made ​​it to be an important part of the team in Chicago, but was sent in February 2007 to the Vancouver Canucks. Smolinski arrive in 32 games for the Canucks only eleven points and his expiring contract was not renewed in the summer of 2007. Shortly thereafter, it took the Montreal Canadiens under contract. It is no longer allowed him to build on its previous achievements and the center scored only 25 points for the Canadiens. In the play-offs the way into the Conference semifinals could be realized, in which the team in five games to the Philadelphia Flyers defeated. The Canadiens offered him a new contract at end of season and he eventually signed a contract with the Port Huron Icehawks of the International Hockey League ( IHL ). During the following season he joined the club and joined the American Hockey League team Milwaukee Admirals. In summer 2009, he signed a contract with the Flint Generals of the IHL, where he ran aground during the 2009/10 season. After the franchise was dissolved.

Internationally

Smolinski represented the United States in these tournaments. Junior World Cup 1990, World Cup of Hockey in 1996, World Cup 1998, World Cup 1999, World Cup of Hockey 2004 His greatest success came in 1996 when he was in the World Cup of Hockey with the U.S. won the finals against Canada.

Awards and achievements

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented the United States at:

• U20 Junior World Cup 1990
• World Cup of Hockey 1996
• World Cup 1998
• 1999 World Cup
• World Cup of Hockey 2004

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )