As a rookie with the Rangers in 1939-40, he was the center on the third forward line with Dutch Hiller and Clint Smith.

"Art Coulter was our best player," Clint Smith, a center on the 1940 team and a fellow Hall of Famer, recalled.

May 19 - Clint Smith, ice hockey player and coach (born 1913)

December 12 - Clint Smith, ice hockey player and coach (d.2009)

Clint Smith had a solid season, registering 50 points, while Bill Mosienko would have 48.

Hiller's death leaves only Clint Smith, 91, and Alf Pike, 88, as the surviving members of the 1940 championship team.

Neil Smith and Clint Smith are not really related, although both have hockey bloodlines that are Ranger blue.

Clint Smith came to practice this morning, hours before the Rangers played the Vancouver Canucks in the third of a five-game road trip.

Neil Smith sat around for an hour, alongside Clint Smith, and admired this stuff.

Clint Smith seemed to think that would be just fine.