How Miller to the CBJ could actually work for Columbus

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Created by: dk325

Team: 2023-24 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 31, 2022

Published: Jul. 31, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Miller covers a top 6C spot for the next 7 years and Johnson can fill in as a top 6 playmaker to replace Voracek on the 2nd line and eventually Gaudreau on the first line when he starts to regress. Chinakhov enters as a 3rd line winger when Voracek expires after this season. If Jiricek isn't ready then Bean re-enters the lineup and either a vet is signed for near minimum and short term or Christiansen is carried as a 7th dman.

As for the trade, money has to be taken back over at least the next 2 years so that Columbus can afford to re-sign Miller if the CBJ are going to invest anything of value into acquiring him. Trading away Voracek to make space is simply too expensive and would close to double the price paid to acquire Miller in the first place. I realize both of the players being sent out were just re-signed this off season, but Gaudreau changes a lot of the team's planned future. This trade also leaves the Jackets with $18M + cap increase for re-signing Sillinger, Johnson, Marchenko, Robinson and Blankenburg in 2024-25.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Ceulemans, Corson	3	$925,000
Del Bel Belluz, Luca	3	$925,000
Voronkov, Dmitri	2	$925,000
Malatesta, James	3	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Christiansen, Jake	2	$950,000
Peeke, Andrew	3	$2,250,000
Texier, Alexandre	3	$3,500,000
Bemström, Emil	1	$850,000
Chinakhov, Yegor	2	$1,050,000
Olivier, Mathieu	2	$850,000
Fix-Wolansky, Trey	1	$850,000
Meyer, Carson	1	$850,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Miller, J.T.		6	$7,500,000
Gavrikov, Vladislav		6	$5,500,000

Trades

CBJ

VAN

Boqvist, Adam
Roslovic, Jack
2024 1st round pick (CBJ)

Additional Details:

Return for Miller during current off-season

Buyouts

Alexander Wennberg: $891,667

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$84,000,000	$83,751,666	$0	$4,550,000	$248,334

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gaudreau, Johnny $9,750,000$9,750,000 LW NMC UFA - 6	Sillinger, Cole $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C RFA - 1	Laine, Patrik $8,700,000$8,700,000 C, RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Johnson, Kent $925,000$925,000 ($1,850,000$2M) LW, C RFA - 1	Miller, J.T. $7,500,000$7,500,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 7	Marchenko, Kirill $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RW RFA - 1
Texier, Alexandre $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Voracek, Jakub $8,250,000$8,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Kuraly, Sean $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Danforth, Justin $975,000$975,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Robinson, Eric $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Werenski, Zachary $9,583,333$9,583,333 LD NMC UFA - 5	Peeke, Andrew $2,250,000$2,250,000 RD UFA - 3	Merzlikins, Elvis $5,400,000$5,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Gavrikov, Vladislav $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD UFA - 2	Jiricek, David $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 3	Tarasov, Daniil $1,050,000$1,050,000 G RFA - 2
Blankenburg, Nick $825,000$825,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Olivier, Mathieu $850,000$850,000 RW UFA - 2
Bemström, Emil $850,000$850,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Bean, Jake $2,333,333$2,333,333 LD/RD RFA - 1

Aug. 1, 2022 at 3:48 p.m.

#26

Jacketsman61

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I could see the Jackets maybe make a play for Miller, if and only if, the Canucks are out of contention and the Jackets are almost a lock for the playoffs. The Jackets need to maximize the great years of Gaudreau but they also are not going to destroy the future.

As far as the trade goes, I just can’t see the Jackets moving Roslovic. Jarmo moved Atkinson and Bjorkstrand already. The fans are not going to be happy especially since this is a player who wants to be here. Jarmo has to tread carefully. Not sure this works unless Nyquist is traded. Because outside of that it would require salary retention on Miller thus upping the cost. So i see a deal only working at the deadline in one of two ways:

1) Miller (50% retention) for Cuelemans, Chinakhov, 2024 1st, and a 2025 2nd

2) Miller for Nyquist, Cuelemans, 2024 1st, and a 2025 2nd

Note: this takes into consideration that Miller is going to sign long term in Columbus.

Aug. 1, 2022 at 4:57 p.m.

#27

dk325

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Joined: Mar. 2022

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Quoting: Jacketsman61

I don't think they can possibly sign Miller without money being being traded away over more than one season. It's the entire reason why both Roslovic and Boqvist are included in the proposal. If they only move out Nyquist in the deal then they're almost $4M over the cap in this super optimistic scenario for the year that this post covers. It would have to be either Rosi and Boqvist or Voracek and Voracek is likely crazy expensive to offload.

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Aug. 1, 2022 at 5:05 p.m.

#28

Jacketsman61

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 4,346

Likes: 849

Quoting: dk325

Voracek, if bought out, would give the jackets a savings of almost 6 mil. Fitting Miller in at a reasonable extension should not be difficult but I do think another minor move would be necessary. Miller is a very good player and should be able to mirror the peak years of Gaudreau.

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