Duane Sutter and Ken Morrow — for their favorite memories of Battlin’ Billy Smith. Relationship with Smith: Teammates on the Los Angeles Kings in 1971-72, then teammates on the Islanders from ...

"Billy Smith sees himself as an honest workman ... He played well enough to be selected in the fifth round by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1970 NHL Draft and assigned to Springfield of the ...

Billy Smith didn’t hesitate to swing his heavy ... After his five-game NHL debut with the Los Angeles Kings at the end of 1971-72, the Islanders selected Smith in the 1972 expansion draft.