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Smith, Mike
NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It’s divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. The league was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec and it is composed of 30 teams out of which 24 teams based in U.S. and 6 in Canada. They have a regular season and playoffs leading to the Stanley Cup, which is the NHL Championship final.
Smith, Mike is well known hockey player. He was born on 22nd March 1982 in Kingston, Ontario. His height is six feet three inch with weight 211 pounds. He is positioned as goaltender and plays for Dallas Stars team. In 2005-06, he appeared in his fourth professional season with the Iowa Stars of the American Hockey League, playing 50 games and posting a 25-19-6 record with 2.50 goals against average and a .917 save percentage.
Smith, Mike led all AHL, American hockey league goaltenders in assists 6, ranked fourth in goals-against-average 2.50, fourth in saves 1,387, seventh in save percentage .917 and eighth in wins 25. He earned the first shutout in Iowa Stars team history during a 1-0 win on November 19 versus Hamilton and recalled by Dallas under emergency conditions on January 18, but did not see any action in the NHL. He tied an AHL record with three assists in a single-game on March 3 at Peoria, joining three other AHL goalies most recently Martin Brodeur and named the AHL Goaltender of the Month for April, going 5-1-0 with a 2.11 and a .937 save percentage and posted first playoff win in Iowa history on April 22.
In 2004-05, he posted a 19-17-3 record with a 2.42, a .915 save percentage and five shutouts for Houston. In 2003-04, went 8-11-0 in 21 games with Utah, collecting a 2.83 GAA. In 2002-03, became the sixth goalie in league history to score a goal and added a 21 save shutout on October 26, 2002 versus Dayton.
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