Jordan Smith is a winner
Just win, baby. A proven victor as a head coach in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, Jordan Smith is continuing his winning ways behind the bench with his latest triumph coming as an assistant coach with the Calder Cup champion Abbotsford Canucks of the American Hockey League.
Smith, a former Soo Thunderbirds head coach in the NOJHL, helped the Vancouver Canucks’ AHL affiliate at Abbotsford capture its first Calder Cup in franchise history.
No stranger to coming away victorious, Smith guided his hometown Thunderbirds to back-to-back Copeland Cup – McNamara Trophy NOJHL crowns in 2015 and 2016.
His Thunderbirds also won the Dudley-Hewitt Central Canadian Jr. A championship in 2015 in Fort Frances, Ont., earning a berth to the then Royal Bank Cup that was held in Portage la Prairie, Man.
The Thunderbirds fell just short of another DHC triumph the following year, being edged in the final of the 2016 event, which was hosted by the NOJHL’s Kirkland Lake Gold Miners.
Among his other accolades was earning consecutive NOJHL Coach of the Year honours for the ’13-14 and ’14-15 campaigns.
In four seasons coaching the T-Birds, Smith led his club to an impressive overall record of 176-29-10 before making the move to the Ontario Hockey League as an associate coach with both the Sudbury Wolves and Soo Greyhounds.
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