Adding some fire

Gaudreau and the second don’t mix in my mind, either he’s on your first or he’s not on your team

there's absolutely no reason for Vancouver to do that.

Gaudreau is a great player but it’s pretty obvious that he cannot carry a team. He needs space to be able to operate and be affective. He had that in Calgary playing on a line with Lindholm and Tkachuk.

Putting Jenner on his opposite wing will give him someone who can forecheck aggressively and help create space for him, and Fantilli is obviously a very skilled center who has already been pretty effective as a 19-year-old and should be able to learn to play with control pretty quickly. Jenner can still take some faceoffs for that line as well to help earn possession.

This gives the Jackets closer to two number one lines than a typical 1 and 2, and I would anticipate that those top two lines draw very similar TOI numbers.

Just being the top line winger on paper is nothing but an ego and status thing which doesn’t matter at all to Gaudreau. All players want is to win, and these moves give CBJ some very good vets who play with passion and can help push this franchise forward.

Yeah, there is a pretty broad spectrum of how people feel about Miller’s contract. CBJ could certainly add, but there will probably be some comments here who are the other side of it. Severson’s deal isn’t great either with that term, but it would give VAN a pretty good top pair option that can play well with QH.

Both deals are a little light in favor of CBJ, because that’s how I like my trades, and Jarmo has pulled off more than a few like that.

Neither team is going to be willing to trade those players, and if they did, it would take more from CBJ to get them in both deals.