from Sarah McLellan of the Arizona Republic,
Smith had to wait for the puck to clear the restricted zone behind the net and when he went to clear it, he fanned on the attempt.
"No one likes to make a mistake like that," he said. "It was a time of the game where it can't happen."
Although he said it wasn't an excuse for the miscue, Smith called the ice surface the worst he's seen in his life.
"You can’t play on that," he said. "When you got other teams coming in complaining about it on the ice, we have to skate on that all the time. It's not an excuse, but it's something that has to get better. It's like slush out there. That puck was going to come out of the trapezoid, and then it just ended up stopping dead right on the line. I didn't know know if I could play it or not on the line, so I kind of panicked for a second and then after I got control of it, obviously the rest is history.
"That play can’t happen. I understand that, but that ice is a joke."
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