{"id":679935,"date":"2026-06-02T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:09:08","slug":"how-former-ranger-kandre-miller-found-game-in-stanley-cup-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679935\/","title":{"rendered":"How former Ranger K&#8217;Andre Miller found game in Stanley Cup run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After failing to clear the conference final hurdle three times over the previous seven seasons, the Hurricanes are finally competing for the organization\u2019s first Stanley Cup in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Former Ranger K\u2019Andre Miller played a key role in making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Unwilling to commit long-term to the then-impending restricted free agent last summer, the Blueshirts traded Miller to Carolina in exchange for defensive prospect Scott Morrow, a conditional first-round pick and a second-rounder in this year\u2019s NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Miller subsequently signed an eight-year, $60 million contract extension with the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After failing to clear the conference final hurdle three times over the previous seven seasons, the Hurricanes are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11556,16679,4823,385,4892,99,358,23633,5265],"class_list":["post-679935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-kandre-miller","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-stanley-cup-final","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}