{"id":178851,"date":"2025-09-30T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178851\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:13:07","slug":"metro-notes-miller-ovechkin-milano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178851\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Notes: Miller, Ovechkin, Milano"},"content":{"rendered":"

A concerning story emerged out of New York today, as J.T. Miller<\/a> left practice after an apparent leg injury. The new Rangers captain was seen lunging after a loose puck and came up favoring his leg, in a\u00a0video posted by Vince Z. Mercogliano of The Athletic.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fortunately, Peter Baugh of The Athletic updated<\/a> this evening that Miller is expected to be fine, a few days missed at worst. The 32-year-old will be relied on heavily in his second stint with the Rangers, as they seek a big turnaround this season, as outlined earlier today.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Capitals had a pair of key updates on their forward core today. Bailey Johnson of The Washington Post confirmed<\/a> Alex Ovechkin<\/a> has been fully cleared for contact and was a regular participant in practice. Head coach Spencer Carbery <\/a>told Johnson<\/a> that the legend had no setbacks and looked the part.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carbery does not expect Ovechkin to appear in tomorrow\u2019s preseason tilt against the Blue Jackets, but he could do so in the last two tune-up games for the Capitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnson also noted<\/a> that Sonny Milano<\/a> is sidelined with an upper-body injury, which is unrelated to the ailment that cost Milano almost the entirety of last season. It is unfortunate timing for the 29-year-old former top prospect as he looks to return to the Capitals lineup, having carved a role as a solid contributor in the last few seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A concerning story emerged out of New York today, as J.T. Miller left practice after an apparent leg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[9927,49,48,5718,13058,751,448,64805,82,754],"class_list":{"0":"post-178851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alex-ovechkin","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-j-t-miller","13":"tag-new-york-rangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-sonny-milano","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-washington-capitals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}