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He is worth at least 4.5M on the open market. Somewhere between 4-5 is basically minimum wage for a top 4 D as a UFA. Add in that he is right handed, and has physicality and size.
In the short term, they would have been better off keeping McDonagh. Long term, Cernak at 8 is better, because half way through this contract there will be a major adjustment to player salaries, and he'll be underpaid by 2+ million. The COVID escrow is 2-3 years away from being paid off. Once that happens, the cap will shoot up. Cernak and Cirelli will be underpaid when that happens.
It reminds me a bit of the Killorn extension. Where if you read reactions to it, a lot of people felt it was high at the time, but as the cap increased it was fine because the term was long enough to allow the contract to deflate under the rising cap.