Posts About "Gary Smith"

5 Players You Didn't Know Were Winnipeg Jets

June 6th, 2020 The Jets 1.0 had many notable stars who played the bulk or a big chunk of their careers in Winnipeg, such as Randy Carlyle, Dale Hawerchuk, Paul MacLean, Teppo Numminen, and Thomas Steen. Related: Top 5 Winnipeg Jets 1.0 Draft Picks of All Time Those players are synonymous with the Jets. However, the Jets also had many well-known,...

50 Years Ago in Hockey: AHL Barons Rout Rochester

October 22nd, 2016 On a quiet night in the hockey world, the American Hockey League Cleveland Barons took their measure of rival Rochester Americans right in their own building. The Barons handed the the Amerks their worst home-ice loss ever with a 7-1 trouncing before over 3400 horrified Rochester fans. Newly Acquired McCarthy Stars Tom McCarthy,...

50 Years Ago in Hockey: Rookie Goalie Stymies Hawks

February 24th, 2016 Toronto Maple Leafs edged the first-place Chicago Black Hawks 3-2 last night thanks mainly to the heroics of an unheralded rookie goalie. But it wasn’t the goalie most expected it would be who did the job. Young Al Smith, up from the Toronto Marlboros Junior A team was the unexpected hero. The Toronto-Chicago contest was one of...

50 Years Ago in Hockey: Suitcase Smith Just Wants to Settle Down

October 4th, 2015 He’s just 21 years old and he’s already seen more of North America than most young men his age. No, he’s not a traveling salesman, nor is he a wandering ne’er-do-well, subject of so many country songs, traveling the highways of America with his dog in his pickup truck, looking for a lost love. He’s Gary (Suitcase) Smith,...

50 Years Ago in Hockey: 65-66 Goalie Preview: Maple Leafs

July 25th, 2015 If there is one National Hockey League team whose goaltending tandem for 1965-66 is etched in stone, it's the Toronto Maple Leafs. At least that is the case after the NHL's June meetings, but leading up to the league's annual conclave, there was heavy speculation that Toronto would shed one of its two veteran goalkeepers. Most every...

50 Years Ago in Hockey - Leafs Loan Goalie to Lowly Bruins

February 23rd, 2015 With all the talk of National Hockey League expansion, one has to wonder where the players will come from when one of the six present teams can't even field a full squad. That situation has arisen in Boston, where the last-place Bruins have run out of goaltenders. All NHL teams must carry two goalies The League's governors recently...