Posts About "J.T. Miller"
Projecting Canucks' 2022 Olympics Participants
May 9th, 2020 Being selected to play for your country at the Winter Olympic Games is an honor for hockey players, but the NHL hasn’t allowed their players to be involved in the Games since 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Canada ended up beating Sweden in the gold medal game that year. In 2014, the Vancouver Canucks had eight players who were selected to...
Canucks Roundtable: Team Awards, Memorable Moments & the Playoffs
April 17th, 2020 Hello Canucks fans and welcome to the first roundtable of the season! Even though the season isn't technically over yet, we thought it would be a fun exercise to give our takes on who should receive the ever-popular team awards. So join the Canucks staff of Matthew Zator, Landon Kapusianyk, Sartaaj Bhullar, Noah Strang, and Tyler...
Vancouver Canucks News & Rumors: Pettersson, Rathbone, Miller & More
March 28th, 2020 With the NHL play suspended for the foreseeable future, it seemed as if it might be time to look at some of the news that’s emerging from the Vancouver Canucks organization and review where the season stands just in case it will be officially over sometime in the near future. Related: Vancouver Canucks News & Rumors: Markstrom,...
Revisiting the Rangers' Ryan McDonagh - J.T. Miller Trade
March 27th, 2020 The New York Rangers' mega-trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Feb. 26, 2018, wasn't the first big move of their rebuilding project, which had been formally undertaken with a letter to fans from team management early that month. No, their first big deal had occurred the day before, when the Rangers sent forward Rick Nash to the...
3 Canucks Storylines Left Unfinished
March 20th, 2020 It has been a long nine days since the Vancouver Canucks last played a hockey game. It feels more like months instead of days since immersing our lives in the storylines and drama that our beloved sports team brings to our daily lives. However, with the news of a player from the Ottawa Senators showing symptoms for the COVID-19 virus,...
Vancouver Canucks News & Rumors: Miller, Pettersson, MacEwen & Edler
March 12th, 2020 It was a back and forth game but, finally, the Vancouver Canucks beat the New York Islanders 5-4 when J.T. Miller scored the only goal in a shootout. Watching the game on television with hockey analysts giving their own viewpoints and interpreting the play sometimes doesn’t give fans a sense of how players even feel about their...
Canucks' Miller Stepping Up as Injuries Mount
March 2nd, 2020 Goaltender Jacob Markstrom has undoubtedly been the Vancouver Canucks' most valuable player in the 43 games he’s appeared in. Unfortunately, an inopportune injury has put the remainder of his regular season in jeopardy. He is set to be re-evaluated in two weeks. If the worst-case scenario prevails (which is very plausible), he might...
Lightning: Revisiting the McDonagh and Miller Trade
February 26th, 2020 As the 2018 Trade Deadline came to a close, then Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman pulled off the blockbuster trade of the season. After weeks of rumor and speculation, the Lightning and New York Rangers came to an agreement that sent defenseman Ryan McDonagh along with forward J.T. Miller to Tampa Bay, with forward...
Canucks' Tyler Toffoli Linemate Options
February 23rd, 2020 When the Vancouver Canucks acquired JT Miller at the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, it seemed clear that general manager Jim Benning signaled to the rest of the league they were all-in; it was playoffs or bust for this group in the 2019-20 season. Related: Greatest Moments from Daniel and Henrik Sedins' Careers Between a strong season to...
20 Biggest NHL Trades in the Past Year
February 16th, 2020 There are many ways for a general manager to improve his team, be it free agency, the waiver wire and of course the trade market. It's a dance that is done not only at the trade deadline but throughout the season and offseason as well. Some come together quickly and painlessly, while others take several months of painstaking...
Vancouver Canucks Are Coming Together at the Right Time
February 2nd, 2020 As my THW bio suggests, I’m a retired academic who, as a professor, taught and conducted research at the University of Alberta for 41 years. One of my research interests was the characteristics of effective teams – how they were built and what made them powerful. Related: Canucks News & Rumors: Horvat, Pettersson, Hughes...
Canucks Offseason Additions Making a Difference
January 28th, 2020 The Vancouver Canucks made quite the splash in the offseason when they traded for JT Miller from the Tampa Bay Lightning and signed free agents Tyler Myers, Oscar Fantenberg, Jordie Benn and Micheal Ferland. All of the moves were met with varying degrees of scrutiny by media and fans alike. Now that we are entering the second half of...
J.T. Miller, Thatcher Demko Lead Canucks to Ninth Straight Home Win, Beat Blues
January 28th, 2020 VANCOUVER — J.T. Miller scored a pair of second-period goals as the Vancouver Canucks fought back from an early deficit to defeat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 Monday night. Bo Horvat also scored into an empty net for the Canucks (28-18-4) who won for the 12...
