Allan Robert Smith (November 10, 1945 – August 7, 2002) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played nearly 500 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) and World Hockey Association (WHA). Minor-pro career Smith began junior hockey in 1961 with the Toronto Marlboros. In 1962 he began playing for the Lakeshore Bruins of the OHA before rejoining the Marlboros in the 1964–65 season. Late in the 1965–66 NHL season, Smith played two games with the Toronto Maple Leafs, winning one of them and posting a 1.94 goals against average. In 1966 he was sent to the Maple Leaf farm team in Victoria, British Columbia (also called the Maple Leafs) where he started 56 games. He was moved to the Western Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks for the 1967 playoffs, where he played in 6 games, posting a 2.61 GAA and got one shutout. That year he also appeared in one game for the San Francisco Seals in the WHL playoffs. From 1967 to 1969 he played 85 games with the Tulsa Oilers, Rochester Americans, and Baltimore Clippers minor league teams before joining the Pittsburgh Penguins, being claimed from the Toronto organization in the NHL Intra-League Draft on June 11, 1969.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Allan Robert Smith (November 10, 1945 – August 7, 2002) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played nearly 500 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) and World Hockey Association (WHA).

Notable quotes

“All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.”
— Comments during the New York Convention on the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Albany, New York, June 27, 1933. Everett Somerville Brown (ed.) Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), p. 302

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Al Smith: American statesman and governor (1873–1944) · left-handed pitcher (1907-1977) · American cartoonist, born 1902 (1902–1986) · professional baseball umpire (1925–2006)

Al Smith across IJR

Studio characters

Hal SmithHeadline energy, small-talk hours.Brandon Mychal SmithAsk the American actor everything the interviews skip.

Ask Genius by OpenServe about Al Smith Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos

Where does Al Smith rank?

Politicians

Greatest Governors in American History

18 candidates · 0 votes · vote on the order