Athletic roundtable pretty unanimous that the Canucks got a good player for a high price. Overall consensus is that most think the Canucks may be trying too hard to accelerate their rebuild;
https://theathletic.com/1042120/2019...forward-group/
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Dom Luszczyszyn: For the life of me I can’t understand why the Canucks would make this deal. J.T. Miller is a great top six option on a good value deal, a strong play-maker who puts his team in good positions via his play-driving ability. But he’s the type of player teams acquire when they’re one piece away. The Canucks, who finished 23rd last season, are not that team despite a strong prospect pool. They are not yet in a position to trade away first-round picks and there’s high risk involved in not lottery-protecting the 2021 part of the pick. It’s non-sensical to give up that kind of package for what was essentially a salary dump on Tampa Bay’s end. For the Lightning, this is an obvious coup and gives them much-needed cap flexibility on top of what could be a huge asset in draft pick capital.
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It's pretty rare that a team in the Lightning's situation can bring in a 1st round pick for a non-elite player they have to move for salary cap reasons but this is probably why the Lightning have been a perennial good team of late as the best just keep getting better as a team with this talent having multiple 1st round picks will have a lot of options.