[Signing] Canucks re-sign J.T. Miller

[J-23]

10 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

When has RNH got 99 points?

 

I am talking about Bo bro.

[hammertime]

Thank you MGMT! Patience was justified. I am so glad to see this settled, so they can finally get back to focusing on hockey. 

[RWJC]

Best part of this for me is we still have him for this year on a Dollar Store deal. 
Love that!

[Bad_BOI_pete]

8 minutes ago, Scottydzik said:

Sadly not the best production we got out of Petey is centering his own line. So best thing for Canucks do is Run Miller Petey Bo down middle. if Canucks are okay paying Bo 6 plus mil to play 15-18 minutes on third line We need move out 2 other contracts.

Jt averaged about 21 minutes a game last year. Bo averaged about 20 minutes and EP40 averaged about 19. your just making stuff up

[Pure961089]

Now realistically we have a real hard spine down the middle of our team.

 

Kuzmenko - Miller - Boeser  1st

Garland - Horvat - Pearson.  2nd 

Mikheyev - Pettersson - Podkolzin. 2 way matchup line.  

Hoglander - Lazar - Joshua 

 

Hoglander can move up and down the lineup depending on which line needs a spark.  
 

One of the deepest forward groups in the league.  

[SilentSam]

Signing one of the best Blue Collar players on the Labour Day weekend,.  
 

it’s an omen!

 

 

 

[Jester13]

Sorry, Edmonton, we really overshadowed your Murray signing with this. 

 

[AV.]

Just now, Alienhuggyflow said:

I agree they will rise and it's one of the reasons I wanted to keep JT and have him signed under this cap. Trying to replace him even as soon as next season would likely cost us more. Sure we gave up some term but who's to say the guy targeted to fill the void even chooses us? 

If we had a replacement internally, I might have been OK with moving him but we clearly don't. 

People will say we need to upgrade the D but doing it through UFA almost always sucks nevermind the fact there is seldom a youngish tip RHD hits the market and definitely not for fair market value. We have the option of trading for one with our Forward depth, especially if Kuzmenko becomes a legit player for us. 

Garland for Zub? Hogz+ for Zub or Severson?

 

Really, how one feels about the Miller deal is reflective of how they feel about the team.

In a vacuum, the extension is fine.  A lot of term, but that's the cost of keeping talent.  As well, the money is reasonable.

But we don't operate in this vaccum.  We operate in a reality where we don't necessarily have a prospect pool with talent ready to come in and play for cheap in these next few years.  Maybe get lucky with Lekkerimaki and Klimovich, but that's just two NHLers.

We might have played at a playoff pace, but we still didn't actually make the playoffs.  And really, the end goal isn't making playoffs, it's actually winning four rounds.  So, unless our plan is to hope for the best, we we're still quite far off with many holes to fix.

Needless to say, if the plan is to win now, there's going to have to be some major moves to be made to fix this team in a short period of time.

[Angry Goose]

Talking point:

 

What is MGMT’s long term plan?  In the short term I think they want to take advantage of having Hughes/Demko relatively cheap and in their prime, plus having Miller at his peak over the next 4-5 years (assuming he doesnt suddenly fall off-boy would that hurt).

 

Accumulating/developing young cheap talent over that time could either help the team stay competitive when those contracts expire/JT ages.  Or we could see them go all in on a rebuild at that point. 

 

I totally get people’s concerns about the back half of his contract, but 5 years out is ample time to plan for.  

[drdeath]

If we take this seasons cap number as staying solid for 23/24 even though it should (hopefully) increase the Canucks are investing 9.69% of their cap space on JT. When the Canucks signed Louie Eriksson they committed 8.22% of the 2016/17 cap to him. 
 

If JT gets thrown on Robias Island at the end of the contract this could become a home run. 

Edited September 3, 2022 by drdeath

[Slegr]

Best news of the week, and great goi bc into the long weekend. It’s Miller time!

[BPA]

Now get Bo signed!!!!

 

Thinking $7M x 8yrs.

 

Let’s go!!!

[aliboy]

So the last 3 years is M-NTC.

 

 

[Barnstorm]

This will do wonders for moral and unity amongst the players.  Great start to the season!

[hammertime]

answered

Edited September 3, 2022 by hammertime

[PetterssonOrPeterson]

LOL @ all the rumors and speculation that he was going to pull a Gaudreau/Tkachuk and leave Canada.

 

Shows that all these hockey pundits don't know jack sh*t.

[DSVII]

51 minutes ago, Pure961089 said:

I have a lot of confidence in Allvin right now.  7 years for a 29 year old means his contract will end when he’s 36 not 38.  I can live with this.  We might need to do something with Myers contract if we want to extend Pettersson after this season (expect a big year this year) and Podkolzin to a long term contract 

Considering our divisional rivals just signed a 31 year old Kadri to a 7x7 and Miller wanted Zibanejad money ($500k less, 1 year less), this isn't too shabby.

[6YPE]

If this team wins the cup with Miller it doesn't matter what the contract is. 

[Jester13]

Question: can we theoretically still trade him during this final year of his current deal? I want to say yes, but contracts are not my forte. 

[4petesake]

41 minutes ago, canuck73_3 said:

Not happening. At all.