{"id":376709,"date":"2025-12-30T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376709\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:21:09","slug":"top-10-canucks-stories-of-2025-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376709\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Canucks stories of 2025 \u2013 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to our annual series here at CanucksArmy,<\/a> where we ring in the new year by looking back at the top 10 Vancouver Canucks<\/a> news stories of the past calendar year.NUMBER 3: Canucks trade JT Miller to the New York Rangers<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost hard to believe that JT Miller and Quinn Hughes were traded in the same calendar year. What a year 2025 was for the Vancouver Canucks.\u00a0Once you remember that the Miller trade happened this year, it comes as little surprise to learn that Miller\u2019s trade to the New York Rangers comes in at number three on our list of the top 10 Canucks news stories of the year. After all, Miller\u2019s name has already come in at number six and five on our list, and we haven\u2019t even gotten to the actual trade yet!<\/p>\n

After months of speculation and a bombshell interview from Canucks President Jim Rutherford, the club decided the rift between Miller and Elias Pettersson meant that Miller had to be traded. On January 31st, 2025, they pulled off that trade, sending Miller to the New York Rangers. In return, the Canucks received forward Filip Chytil, defenceman Victor Mancini, and a conditional first-round pick in 2025.<\/p>\n

Now, hindsight is 20\/20, but in retrospect, the Canucks did fairly well in that trade. New York thought they were acquiring a player capable of producing at or above a point-per-game pace, as he did for most of his tenure in Vancouver. This season, however, Miller, who turns 33 in March, has put up 10 goals and 12 assists through 35 games. Further, Miller carries an $8 million cap hit on his contract, which doesn\u2019t expire for another four seasons after this one. The Canucks, especially given where they\u2019re at today, did well to get off of that contract on a ageing player.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, they flipped the first round pick they got in the Miller deal on the same night they acquired it, sending the pick \u2014 along with failed UFA signings Danton Heinen and Vincent Desharnais \u2014 to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Drew O\u2019Connor and Marcus Pettersson. The perennially-retooling Canucks once again robbed Peter to pay Paul, and as we look back on the Miller trade, the only real \u201cwin\u201d for the Canucks in the end is that they got off the contract. As we \u2014 and we think they \u2014 know now, that the Canucks were much further than a 4th defenceman and bottom-six winger away from turning things around.<\/p>\n

Had the Canucks kept the pick, they\u2019d have had both the 12th and 15th overall picks in last year\u2019s draft, which would have been a nice way to kickstart the rebuild that the club instead tried to convince themselves they didn\u2019t need by making a win-now move.<\/p>\n

Miller left the Canucks with a regular season total of 404 games, 152 goals, 285 assists, and 437 points, just missing out on the top-10 all-time in Canucks scoring at 11th place \u2013 12 points behind Todd Bertuzzi, who played 114 more games in Vancouver. Perhaps more impressively, it\u2019s only 41 points behind Pavel Bure in 24 fewer games. Miller was ranked the 20th-best Canuck of all-time in our recent ranking of the Top 50 Canucks of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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