CONFIRMED: Vancouver Canucks Trading JT Miller to New York Rangers Falls Through Last Minute
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NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman has confirmed the rumor that the Vancouver Canucks attempted to trade JT Miller in the past 24 hours but it ultimately fell through.
All season long JT Miller has been involved in trade rumors, mainly due to the ongoing issues and rift he is having with fellow teammate
Elias Pettersson.
NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman Confirms JT Miller Almost was traded to the New York Rangers.
After all the trade rumors, it was confirmed just moments before puck drop with the Canucks and Oilers that Miller was in fact going to be in the lineup.
"Things had progressed to a certain point where it definitely looked like he wasn't going to play," Friedman added.
NHL Insider Elliotte Freidman made it official that the Canucks had a deal in place that would send Miller to the New York Rangers and it was it was expected that he would not be playing.
«There was a time over the last 24 hours where
J.T. Miller was not going to play,» he said during the Saturday night headlines program ahead of the team's matchup against the Edmonton Oilers.
The full discussion about JT Miller can be seen here:
Whether it is because of the rift with Pettersson, the issues of the Vancouver market or just plain lack of motivation, it is a major shame that the issues with Miller are apparently not going to be worked out.
He has been the emotional heartbeat of the team since he landed here and to lose a player of his caliber is going to be hard to replace.
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