Elias Pettersson & Members of the Vancouver Canucks Address the J.T. Miller-Sized Elephant in the Room

"We had a really good year the year before and they had really good years. So you never think it's, the smouldering is going to turn up. Did it get uncomfortable? Yeah. A lot of meetings, a lot of things. Could've something been different? You know, I hear people on the sidelines 'If I was coaching or I was...they've got to go to dinner and they've got to fight it out'. I mean, you don't think we've tried all that stuff? It just didn't work out. I know everybody is looking for a bad guy. I don't think there was a bad guy in the thing. It just didn't work out. At that point, it needed to be resolved and like Jim said, that's what happened. It's unfortunate because would I not want J.T. Miller in my lineup? 100 percent. But at that time, it just could not work." Tocchet said.

"Obviously last year was a different year." Brock Boeser said. "He's not afraid to voice his opinion on things. He's obviously a tough player to replace, he's an unbelievable player and a void that's hard to fill."

"Obviously there was some things going on, but it wasn't as big as it was made out to be." Tyler Myers said. He's a guy who always wore his heart on his sleeve. When he was having a good day, you knew it, when he was having a bad day, you knew it. To come together as a group, you can't hold anything in, you got to air things out. There's going to be noise with anything, positive or negative. We just have to realize that, you know, if anything goes on throughout a year, that we're still brothers and we're all still fighting for the same goal."

"Obviously we're not happy with how it went, but that was in the past and we can only learn from it." Elias Pettersson said.

"Millsy's no longer a teammate, so you know, to me he's just a good friend." Conor Garland said. "We're off of last year, we've already moved on. He's in New York, we're in Vancouver. It'll be nice to see him when we play him, but besides that, we're on about our team."

"Elias Pettersson wasn't in the mood to entertain J.T. Miller questions from local media. When asked about facing him tonight, he deadpanned, «I played against him last year, too» and left it at that. Didn't bite much on follow-ups, either. Definitely felt like a touchy subject." Mercogliano said.