# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/d-j-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:01:47.131Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/d-j-smith"
name: "D. J. Smith"
slug: "d-j-smith"
description: "Denis Joseph Smith is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who most recently served as interim head coach for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously served as head coach of the Ottawa Senators for five seasons from 2019 to 2023. As a player, Smith played 45 NHL games with both the Toronto Maple Leafs and Colorado Avalanche. As a coach, Smith won the Memorial Cup in 2015 and spent four years as an assistant with the Maple Leafs before joining Ottawa."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player and coach"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1977-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.31
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.663005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94._%D0%94%D0%B6._%D0%A1%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%82"
    title: "Д. Дж. Сміт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A._%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF)"
    title: "دي. سميث (لاعب هوكي الجليد)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%89._%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "دى. سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._J._Smith"
    title: "D. J. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._J._Smith_(ice_hockey)"
    title: "D. J. Smith (ice hockey)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Smith_(hockey_sur_glace)"
    title: "Denis Smith (hockey sur glace)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.J._Smith"
    title: "D.J. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5203666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump