He was drafted per New Jersey Devils in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. He was known as to the Western Hockey League's all-rookie team inside 1992 and WHL first tons-star team within 1993. He won a Bill Hunter Trophy as the WHL's top defenceman. Smith played on the gold medal-winning Team Canada at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship in 1993. He mass produced his NHL debut using a Devils when you took a 1993-94 year. He missed a majority of the 94-95 year because of a knee injury however would go to to captain the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League to a Calder Cup championship in 1995, in a equivalent month that a Devils captured the Stanley Cup. Within 1997 he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, and inside 1999 he was traded to the Edmonton Oilers. Whilst Doug Weight was traded to the St. Louis Blues, Smith was named Captain.