I was planning to write a nice little piece about Brendan Smith this summer. It was going to mention brother Reilly’s absurdly early promotion that burned a year of his ELC, casually drop that the Bruins now have zero pieces left from the Tyler Seguin trade after not qualifying Joe Morrow, and mostly just parallel last summer’s Dan Hamhuis piece that obviously convinced Jim Nill to sign him last season.
In short, I had decided that Brendan Smith was the Stars’ best option to bolster their blue line, and I was going to say as much.