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Originally Posted by evman150
Calling Smid a bottom pairing defenseman is controversial, but fair enough. Calling him a "mediocre" bottom pairing guy is absolutely ridiculous. If he's bottom pairing, then he's an awesome bottom pairing guy.
Personally, I think he's a decent #4 guy who has played pretty well for the Flames so far.
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Ridiculous? Smid grades out very poorly in most puck possession stats, and offers basically nothing offensively. If you haven't seen those stats it would make sense to educate yourself before calling my opnion "ridiculous".
He's a role player, spare part, fairly run of the mill 5-6 guy. Definite NHL player, but he's a guy that would get exposed against upper echelon players (like he was when he played on the Oilers). Good penalty killer, but I wouldn't say he really offers one other talent I would describe as "above average".
I mean, the Oilers used Jeff Petry (almost exclusively) to move the puck out of the zone when they played together. Not sure if you have seen Petry play, but he isn't exactly Doughty or Keith at moving the puck.