Canucks trades JT Miller to Rangers for Filip Chytil, Victor Mancini, pr. Sources: What it means for both teams

By Pierre Lebrun, Chris Johnston, Arthur Staple, Thomas Drance and Peter Baugh

Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers agreed on a trade for JT Miller, according to a league source. There has not been a trade call yet, says the source.

Together with Miller, Canucks Erik Brännström and Jackson Dorrington send to Rangers for Filip Chytil, Victor Mancini and a top-13 protected 2025 first round pick, says a league source.

Canucks asked Miller to waive his clause without trade to clear the way for Vancouver to act until Rangers, a league source said Friday, and Miller did.

Rangers prepared Miller with No. 15 -Selection in 2011 NHL Draft. He played parts of four seasons with rangers and two with Tampa Bay Lightning before a six-season tint in Vancouver.

Miller has 35 points in 40 games with Canucks this season.

What rangers get in Miller

At its best, Miller is a top-line center capable of putting 100 points in one season. He showed that as late as last season when he set 103 points in 81 games for a Vancouver team that got as close as anyone in the West to beat Edmonton Oilers.

Rangers have been looking to make major changes to their list since the start of the season as they sent a memo to other teams that said they would be open to moving the crucible players, including Captain Jacob Truba and the longest- Rented player Chris Kreider. Rangers ended up shopping away Truba and Fremad Kaapo Kakko in December, but this is their most drastic addition of the season. Miller immediately fits into a top-six forward group that has struggled to produce at the same speed as it did by 2023-24.

There is also a risk in the Miller gain, namely in his contract. He is 31 years old and at an average annual value of $ 8 million through 2029-30. Friday’s news about increases in wage tariff ceiling in the coming years is making it more tasty, even though he regresses with age. – Peter Baugh, Rangers beat Author

Canucks turns the page on the Miller era

The skilled first-line center has been very public on the trade block over the past month and was almost treated for Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes on back-to-back weekends. Eventually, Friday afternoon, the iconic Canucks dropped out its non-movement clause and moved to Rangers, which this time, did not arbitrarily kill the deal at the last minute.

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Given that the club really had to move Miller, with Canuck’s President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford, who admits this core had been unsustainable considering the broken relationship between Miller and colleague Star Center Elias Pettersson, this package is about as good as the club could have expected to do. They clearly acted the best player involved, but threw a significant CAP responsibility and got a credible middle-six-center option in Chytil, a player on which the club has been very high, despite the damage questions. Vancouver also gets an interesting right-handed defender in Mancini and a protected first round-one asset, which is likely to burn a hole in the club’s pocket between now and the March 7 trading deadline.

Miller leaves Vancouver after producing one point per Fight during his canucks – Embed period – one of only two forward to do so in the franchise history beyond the Hall of Fame Sniper Pavel Bure. It’s a shame that it came to this for a club that intended to fight this season, but it is a trade that will calmly open some other ways for the club to reject this list and try to move on. – Thomas Drance, Canucks beat Author

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What rangers sacrificed for Miller

Chytil is the most important return in this agreement. He broke out in 2022-23 with 45 points in 74 games, but he has dealt with several head injuries, including a concussion that kept him out of almost all season 2023-24. He has fought for injuries again this year, though he saw a specialist to decide that they were not a concussion. Chytil has shown blinks of brilliance this season, but has struggled with consistency, partly because he missed two stretches of injuries. If he is healthy, he is a high quality quality center.

Mancini was a pleasant surprise for Rangers, which made the team out of training camp. He has since gone down to Hartford. Rangers consider him someone who could eventually be a reliable third -party defender, but Rangers has a depth on the right with Adam Fox, Braden Schneider and will the castle. They also have defensive views Drew Fortescue and not Emery in the pipeline.

The first round pick is valuable, but if it is in teens or 20s, rangers do not get a player who would be able to help them earlier than three or four years by the way. – Baugh

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