Player Discussion JT Miller Thread

[Bertuzzzi44]

JT Miller - Beast defensively tonight. 2 points. 18 for 22 in face-off wins.

 

[Dirtyclapper]

Letting Tanev go was a popular move on this sub? Lol, Benning got cooked for doing it. Wild statement.

It's an interesting thing to me that while Pettersson has conveyed to management that he wants to stay, Miller has not (per Friedman). Easy thing to do. Just go to management and say you'll fall in line. Continue to push in the same direction. Instead, we hear about him and his agent talking with other teams...

He doesn't want to be here.

Just watched his post game said he wants to be a Canuck. I've seen him out and about in westvan and I know his wife and kids absolutely love it here as well

 

[David71]

so what is the move here... trade or wait for more suitors.. offseason would be the logical choice IMO. or else its gonna be like luongo/schiender 2.0 trade the wrong guuy aka petterson if it goes that way and vancouver keeps miller.

 

[Bleach Clean]

A lot of those posts were used to spread the word of how important Tanev was to this team, while many saw him as an aging, injury prone, 1 dimensional player.

Sure Benning got heat, after the fact, and increasingly more as it aged poorer and poorer. In the seasons prior though... the idea of a Tanev extension was met with plenty of daggers.

As far as JT goes, he chose to stay, for a $ and term that a team in his home country could have matched or beat. He negotiated the right to choose his destination should he want to leave, or be asked to. Until that time, if it ever comes, he's ours.

He chose to stay and now he's talking to other teams. Seems like he wants to leave... This all goes to bed if he requests/states that he wants to stay. Seems simple enough, and yet the rumours persist...?

If you want more posts about HFVAN being high on Tanev, I can dig them up for you. Sure, people can be critical of a player, any player, but most thought Benning bungled the cap and Tanev should have been brought back. There media clips to this effect even now about it. (Dhali said this last year iirc)

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

JT Miller took it to McDavid & Draisaitl 5-on-5 tonight. Straight Beast Mode.

 

[Bleach Clean]

Just watched his post game said he wants to be a Canuck. I've seen him out and about in westvan and I know his wife and kids absolutely love it here as well

Edit: "I'm planning on being a Canuck today and tomorrow" is a lot different than saying "I want to be a Canuck long-term/I'm not going anywhere".

Say it to management. Tell them you don't want to take any more calls from other teams.

The only thing preventing Miller from staying is Miller, as far as I see.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Yeah, I've noticed a few instances where he suddenly completely stops using an arm and then hightails it to the bench at first opportunity.

Yeah

And he had his neck / upper back taped up early in the year. But this is just a guess on my part.

 

[Dirtyclapper]

As I lay here unable to sleep pissed off we might be trading miller I went through the box score it was just crazy seeing how many faceoffs JT won tonight mostly against mcdavid and drai then got me thinking I wonder who is the best in the league at faceoffs..

Out of the top 25 in the league he's in 24th in overall wins. 356 out of 607 58.6% which actually puts him in 3rd in the entire league. Only Horvat (59.1) and his good buddy Trocheck (60.5) are better right now.

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[dwarf]

The Canuck management would be crazy to trade Miller. He is their best player and leader. They need to make him happy here, not kick him to the curb. I can't believe the bs I am hearing about moving him. It is a long season, lots of time for the team to find ways to solve its problems and Miller is not the problem.