[bigrangy]

I hate having to continually defend Smith around here but he is not nearly as bad as everyone makes it seem.

You've got a 6'7" beast who loves to get nasty scoring at a respectable rate in the OHL in his draft+1 as a pretty young guy for his draft year. He then goes on to have another pretty good season culminating in a Memorial Cup win.

Then he goes to the AHL, gets played on the 4h line, and outproduces Klimchuk, a former 1st round pick. This year, he's playing 4th line again and has posted very good numbers for the limited ice time he gets.

There is a player there. He's no worse of a pick than Poirier at this point.