Stuart Gordon "Stu" Smith (born March 17, 1960) is a Canadian former professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

player who played 77 games in the

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for the

Hartford Whalers The Hartford Whalers were a professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in Hartford, Connecticut. The club played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 until 1979, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to ...

between 1979 and 1983. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1979 to 1985, was spent in the minor

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. Internationally Smith played for the Canadian national junior team at the 1980 World Junior Championships Smith was born in

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* 1960 births Living people Binghamton Whalers players Canadian ice hockey defencemen Hartford Whalers draft picks Hartford Whalers players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States New Haven Nighthawks players Peterborough Petes (ice hockey) players Ice hockey people from Toronto {{canada-icehockey-defenceman-1960s-stub