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Bruce Boudreau Reveals Whether The Canucks Are A Better Team Without JT Miller

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Daniel Lucente
February 4, 2025  (11:14)
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JT Miller comes out on to the ice as a member of the Vancouver Canucks
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Former NHL head coach Bruce Boudreau recently sat down for an interview in which observations about whether the Canucks become a better team minus J.T. Miller.

For months, rumor surrounded a move, and Friday, in fact, saw a move of JT Miller to the Rangers.

It seemed that during his leave for a personal issue, he checked out of the team, and rumor of a feud between Miller and Elias Pettersson piqued the Rangers' interest in a player whom for a long period of time, they'd pursued.

Boudreau believes the Canucks are a better team

Former Canucks head coach Bruce Boudreau gave an analysis about the move. On TSN, he was questioned about whether, in moving Miller, in the long run, the Canucks became a better team.

"Potentially over the long haul? Yes, I think they can," Boudreau said on Sunday. "I think they can be better. I also think they can be better because obviously, the room wasn't working. They weren't playing for each other like you're supposed to be playing.

"Miller is one great hockey player when he wants to play, and he's proven it this weekend in New York even though they split the games, he got two goals the first game two assists today. I mean, he's he's a 100 point player all the way."



In his view, the move added additional depth and healed the locker room issue, and therefore, made them potentially a better team, despite Miller being the best player of the trade to be moved.

"I'm not sold that he (Chytil) can be a point producer anywhere near the rate that J. T. Miller was so but if you add (Marcus) Pettersson, who's a top-four defenseman in Pittsburgh, and you get Drew O'Connor, who can skate and has got size, I think that evens out the trade a little bit," Boudreau said.


The Canucks, in his view, did the best that could have been accomplished with the circumstances under which they'd been handed.

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