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Willes' Musings: Miller a step in the right direction, but Canucks still playing catch up

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OPINION: If the Canucks are still a 25th-place team two years from now and T.J. Miller turns out to have cost them a lottery pick, well, at least Jim Benning won’t be around to worry about this tra…

Following a fairly eventful weekend at Rogers Arena, we offer an all-draft edition of the Monday morning musings and meditations on the world of sports.If Miller, who was acquired from Tampa Bay on Saturday, is the 23-goal, 57-point player he was for two straight seasons, he represents a significant upgrade in the Canucks’ top-six.

For a deeper dive on this subject, we refer you to colleague Eric Duhatschek’s piece in the The Athletic, which contains the following from Preds GM David Poile. That first-rounder is lottery protected next year. If it turns out to be a mid- to late-pick in the first round in 2021, that’s a fair exchange for Miller. If the Canucks are still a 25th-place team two years from now and that turns into a lottery pick, well, at least Benning won’t be around to worry about this trade.

It’s hard to know what he would have become if he’d stayed in Vancouver but there aren’t a lot of 6-foot-7, 260-pound defensemen around who can skate.

 

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