What It Means:

Smith allowed five goals on 26 shots in the Coyotes' loss to the St. Louis Blues on Monday. Louis Domingue started on Tuesday, but they’ll go back to Smith tonight in Nashville. Smith has gone 5-3-0 with a 1.78 goals against average, .946 save percentage and two shutouts in eight games since returning to the crease in mid-March. He is facing a Predators team which has lost four of their last five games.

Despite the recent run of good form, our daily projections are not a fan of Smith, ranking him as the No. 25 goalie on a night with 13 games. We project him to allow 3.03 goals on 27.89 shots with a 31 percent chance of registering the win.