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Originally Posted by Yrebmi
We essentially traded Laurent Brossoit for Smid. Surely Reinhart is worth as much as a #4 D-man?
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Horak was likely a more valuable part of the deal but neither came close to the real value in that trade - cap space. Oilers needed to unload Smid to sign Bryzgalov and not many teams had the cap space and the need for a defenseman at the time.