Edited Feb. 8, 2023 at 5:12 p.m.
Quoting: penguinswin
Yikes! You can dial it back to an 8! I appreciate your fandom, and that MIN may have NO desire to pick up Miller (most of the league seems to have an issue with him despite the point per game play)….BUT, THERE ARE WAY WORSE IDEAS THAN THIS ONE FOR MIN! I get they could go either way between two year rebuild due to cap issues vs. drive through those issues like a freight train in a fine china shop. And if Guerin decides to continue to go for it, then I applaud him for it! Unfortunately Dumba may be a cap casualty because of it…which could lead to someone needed to fill the void and they could do worse than Schenn in that equation…just IMHO
Sorry, but I will not do that.
It's been explained to this guy TWICE now; and not just by me, but by fans from neutral fanbases too, that Miller DOES NOT WORK FROM A CAP HIT STANDPOINT in not just one thread. But now TWO. After being told it doesn't work and that Minnesota wouldn't do this in his last thread, he posted this exact trade a SECOND time. The only difference is that he added Truscott to the trade this time. As if that changes things.
This year is NOT the problem. It's the NEXT TWO years after this that the organization cannot literally afford Miller.
JT Miller:
2022-23 cap hit - $5.25M
2023-30 cap hit - $8M
Minnesota Wild:
2022-23 current cap space - $10.6M
2022-23 TDL cap space - $16.5M
2023-24 available cap space - $9.3M
2023-24 current roster size/signed players - 14
AFTER MILLER ACQUISITION:
2023-24 available cap space - $1.3M
2023-24 roster size/signed players - 15
22 full roster count size minus 15 signed players = 7 roster spots left to fill.
Basic math tells you that the Wild would have $1.3M left to sign/utilize SEVEN players/ELC's. That's not economically feasible there chief.
I don't care if Miller is a fit or not, or if it's a *go for it* move. It destroys the cap for the next two years where the Wild are forced to sell off high-end talent, IE Kaprizov, just in order to field a full roster.
Which is what this guy is literally stating they should do. Destroy the team, just to go all in this year. Sorry, but that's moronic. Again, if the team had absolutely sucked this year, you bottom out and get the best pick you can in the deepest draft since 2015 and reload for next year. But the fact of the matter is, is that they're a playoff caliber team with or without Miller. That just so happens to have
the top ranked prospect pool in the league.
There is ZERO reason for them to rebuild.