Former Edmonton Oilers captain Ryan Smyth on retirement and trusting in God's plan
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Smyth played 19 NHL seasons with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders, Colorado Avalanche and Los Angeles Kings. He was originally selected 6th overall in the 1994 NHL Draft by Edmonton.
Smyth retired after the 2013-14 season and finished his career with 386 career goals and 842 points. In 2023, Smyth was named to the inaugural Edmonton Oilers Hall of Fame class along with legends Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier and others.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Ryan Smyth about retirement, being inducted into the inaugural Oilers Hall of Fame class, growing up in a Christian home and his struggle in making hockey his god.
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| 1:02.4 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports sports conversation. |
| 1:03.8 | Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 1:07.8 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:08.7 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:09.7 | I am Jason. |
| 1:10.4 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. We got a fantastic |
| 1:13.6 | conversation today coming up with Ryan Smith, the longtime NHL player, longtime Edmonton Oiler, |
| 1:20.9 | selected sixth overall in 1994 by the Oilers. He played 19 seasons in the NHL from 1994 to 2014, 12 with the Oilers. He was |
| 1:32.4 | traded to the Islanders, played in the 2007 NHL All-Star game, signed with Colorado, then |
| 1:38.9 | traded to the Kings, reacquired, and finished his career back where it started with the |
| 1:44.0 | Edmonton Oilers and announced |
| 1:45.7 | his retirement in 2014. He's an Olympic gold medalist with Canada. His brother played in the |
| 1:51.5 | NHL a little bit with the Hartford Whalers. And his hero was Wayne Gretzky, of course, Ryan Smith's |
| 1:57.6 | hero growing up in Alberta, Canada and wanting to play with Edmonton |
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