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Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman
On the free agent market he might be.
If you can't develop internally that is the reality organizations face to acquire players. Ideally you don't have to pay guys like Smid 3.5M, but many teams have to when they dip their toes in the free agent market (or in this case acquiring contracts from other teams for minimal assets).
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Teams don't pay 3.5 million for mediocre third pairing defencemen that are easily replaceable. It literally does not happen in any scenario.
He cannot be both worth his contract, and a mediocre third pairing defenceman who is easily replaceable, one of the two is wrong, and popular opinion would be the latter.