Doug Smith (ice hockey)
Douglas Eric Smith ( born May 17, 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( center ), who from 1981 to 1990 for the Los Angeles Kings, Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League played.
Career
During his junior time Smith played for the Ottawa 67 's in the OMJHL. After a strong season, he was selected as the second player in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 by the Los Angeles Kings.
The Kings took him immediately to the 1981/82 season in their squad. At that time they were very strongly held in attack with players such as Marcel Dionne, Dave Taylor, Charlie Simmer and Bernie Nicholls, making it Smith failed to play a dominant role in the team. However, it increased from year to year. Over the 1985/86 season he was given or made with Brian Engblom to the Buffalo Sabres.
After two years in Buffalo, where he played for the Rochester Americans at times, in the AHL, he undertook the Edmonton Oilers in October 1986 in the Waiver Draft. He had some in the AHL with the Cape Breton Oilers before moving to Edmonton more just five months later to the Vancouver Canucks 19 inserts. End of February 1990, he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins, his last stop in the NHL.
In the summer of 1990, he moved to Austria, where he played for the EC VSV and the VEU Feldkirch.