{"id":48999,"date":"2025-11-23T02:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:52:05","slug":"j-t-miller-out-for-rangers-against-mammoth-in-new-injury-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48999\/","title":{"rendered":"J.T. Miller out for Rangers against Mammoth in new injury concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The Rangers were without J.T. Miller on Saturday night against the Mammoth due to an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll take it as it comes,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said when asked if Miller will be out for more than one game. \u201cRight now, he\u2019s day to day. Tough guy to replace. He\u2019s hard to play against. He makes an impact on the game, even when he doesn\u2019t end up on the scoresheet. The other night, he ends up on the scoresheet, which is great for us and it\u2019s good for him, obviously. But he\u2019s not an easy guy to replace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller was sidelined toward the end of training camp, after the Rangers captain <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/29\/sports\/rangers-j-t-miller-leaves-practice-with-non-contact-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a noncontact, lower-body injury<\/a> while skating with the non-game group ahead of the club\u2019s preseason matchup on Long Island on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing the final two exhibition games and a few practices, Miller was in the Blueshirts Opening Night lineup and had appeared in all of their first 22 games.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37741337\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-york-rangers-center-j-115942527.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers center J.T. Miller reacts after scoring a goal past Colorado Avalanche goaltender Scott Wedgewood as defenseman Cale Makar looks on.\" class=\"wp-image-37741337\"  \/>J.T. Miller reacts after scoring a goal during the Rangers\u2019 Nov. 20 game. AP<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s game against Utah marked the first regular-season contest the 32-year-old has missed so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the injury was one he had been dealing with or a new injury from the Colorado game, Sullivan said it was the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Miller got off to a slow start to the 2025-26 campaign, collecting just three goals and four assists through the first 12 games. <\/p>\n<p>It prompted speculation that Miller still wasn\u2019t 100 percent recovered from the lower-body injury he sustained in the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>With three goals and four points in the past five games, however, Miller has steadily begun to contribute more offensively. <\/p>\n<p>His two-goal effort against the Avalanche on Thursday night counted as his first multigoal performance of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Without Miller, Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re served as the Rangers first line.<\/p>\n<p>The second unit featured Will Cuylle, Mika Zibanejad and Jonny Brodzinski.<\/p>\n<p>Cuylle replaced Miller on the first power-play unit as well, joining Panarin, Trocheck, Zibanejad and Adam Fox. <\/p>\n<p>That bumped Lafreni\u00e8re to the second group next to Brodzinski, Conor Sheary, Taylor Raddysh and Scott Morrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The Rangers were without J.T. 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