Not a bad haul for a player who was closing in on 30 and hadn't made much of a name for himself as anything but a 1b.
A single really good season in a system that seems favourable to goalies and he's going to make 30M+ now. Not saying Phoenix had options or Smith wouldn't have made similar money elsewhere, but with contracts like this it's easy to see why the league needed 2 lockouts so close.
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