So he's going to come play with Petterson on the top line, have a career year and look great? He is a legit top 6 winger? Maybe?
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id...nd-pastrnak-landeskog-mackinnon-rantanen-more
"In ranking the best lines in the NHL, there's also what we'll call the
Tampa Bay Lightning problem.
Last season,
Nikita Kucherov and
Steven Stamkos played with Vladislav Namestnikov, and things were pretty good.
Then Vlad was traded, J.T. Miller joined the line, and things were not as good. "
And then there is this taken from a 2018-19 season preview:
"The player with question marks is JT Miller, and, because of that, his chart is most interesting here.
He was hovering around average third-line performance with the Rangers until the trade. After the trade, he immediately spiked and climbed into comfortable
second-line range by the end of the year. Even acknowledging that players can get hot for lots of reasons,
it seems pretty clear that playing on Tampa’s top line sparked an improvement in Miller’s output."
"That leaves Miller positioned to have a career year. He
signed an expensive extension this summer to keep him Tampa for another five years. Don’t be surprised if finding a home with Kuch and Stammer makes that contract look like a bargain."
So he was signed and expected to play on the first line, and score a career high in points, but played 75 games and got 47 pts? And he was moved off the first line going into the playoffs for a 21 year old in his second year and regulated to centering the fourth line, as to coincide with the 'expensive extension' he signed?
Tampa Bay Lightning 2018-2019 season preview: The top six forwards
So if you play him with Stamkos and Kucherov (Like Tampa did right after they traded for him) he performs like an average second liner, while playing on Tampa's top line (of all teams). I'm sure Petterson will match Stamkos' paltry 86 points that season (in his second year in the NHL) but who will provide Kuchorov's offence that brought in 100 pts and helped make JT look like a second liner?