Fans of the New York Rangers weren’t the only ones disappointed with Brendan Smith after his disastrous 2017-18 season.
In talking with Colin Stephenson of Newsday, Smith revealed that he lost confidence in himself after a terrible season that ended with him buried in Hartford. When asked about how his season went, he was candid:
“I doubted myself. I thought maybe at times I couldn’t do it anymore.’’
In the first year of a four year contract, the defenseman was awful. His Corsi for (cf) was an abysmal 46.