Reilly Smith zings Panthers while pondering playing in front of empty arenas

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Reilly Smith landed a pretty spicy zinger on his former team, the Florida Panthers, while pondering the prospect of playing in front of empty arenas as coronavirus fears spread. “I played in an empty building for a couple years in Florida so I'm used to it,” Smith said, according to reporters including The Athletic's Jesse Granger and The Las Vegas Review-Journal's David Schoen. As teams like the San Jose Sharks come to grips with possibly playing empty arena games, and the Blue Jackets among others try to hold out against doing so, the “well that will be no change for [criticized team]” jokes were going to come.

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