Smith reacts to empty net miss

These quotes come from The Tennessean’s Kylie Kolz, who spoke with Craig Smith at practice today, about his empty net miss.

What the guys are telling him:

“A lot of guys just came up to me and said ‘don’t worry about it.’ It’s early in the season and it’s a learning moment. It won’t happen again. It was a tough thing to go through, but it’s done now and I’ve moved on from it and they just want me to let it go and just keep playing.”

The first thing that went through his head after he missed:

“I think it was about three years ago or something, a guy from Dallas, the puck flipped over his stick and he kind of skated over it and the other team went down and scored, and then ended up winning the