J. T. Miller, Vancouver Canucks
The Vancouver Canucks continue to watch their season slip away with just two wins since returning from the Christmas break. Even worse, the Canucks have only found the win column three times in their last 14 games.
With the ongoing drama in the Vancouver Canucks' locker room, J.T. Miller was compared to former toxic Winnipeg Jets captain Blake Wheeler.
Saturday was full of headlines for the Vancouver Canucks as the J.T. Miller trade speculation reached a near-boiling point. This comes after a disappointing 5-1 loss to the L.A. Kings on Thursday night. During Sportsnet’s Hockey Day In Canada broadcast, insider Elliotte Friedman weighed in on some of the rumours.
Head coach Rick Tocchet shed light on the situation, attributing Miller’s decreased minutes to a strategic shift toward spreading ice time more evenly among forward lines, per Canucks Army's Jeff Paterson.
The Vancouver Canucks' season has taken a downturn with rumors of a rift between J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson.
Over the past week and a half, Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin and director of player personnel Scott Young took in a series of World Junior games in Ottawa, watched Vancouver’s AHL affiliate in Laval and were in attendance together to witness the Canucks’ 5-4 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday.
NHL insider Farhan Lalji appeared on TSN's OverDrive to discuss the Vancouver Canucks. He highlighted Quinn Hughes as the team’s most dependable player this season.
The intrigue about Canucks centers J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson continues, while the Sabres' Dylan Cozens and Islanders' Brock Nelson remain in the rumor mill.
The Vancouver Canucks came extremely close to trading forward J.T. Miller on Saturday. It sounds as though a trade involving Vancouver Canucks forward J.T. Miller is either in the process of falling apart or has already fallen apart.
The never-ending trade saga with the Vancouver Canucks is nearing its end — and so too, it seems, is the J.T. Miller era.
The J.T. Miller era in Vancouver may officially be coming to an end. Although Miller has yet to be moved it is starting to sound like a trade involving the veteran forward is now only a matter time with a report from arguably the top Canucks insider in the business pointing in that direction.