13 jours avant la soirée d’ouverture : JT Miller (14e meilleur buteur de tous les temps)
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Krapshoot
@Canucks de Vancouver
13 jours avant la soirée d’ouverture : JT Miller (14e meilleur buteur de tous les temps)
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Krapshoot
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14. JT Miller — 364GP | 143G | 259A | 402P | 2020-Present
Jimothy Timothy Miller is absolutely worth a first round pick. Born as Jonathan Tanner Miller on March 14, 1993 in East Palestine, Ohio, Miller grew up playing hockey at an early age. Like many promising young players he participated in the International Peewee Tournament hosted in Quebec in 2006. In 2009, Miller moved to Ann Arbor so he could participate in the USNTDP.
Miller didn’t put up really high point totals in the development program in his first few seasons. His offensive production really took off in 2010-11 when he produced 12-goals and 35-points in 35-games. In the summer, Miller was drafted by the New York Rangers 15th overall in 2011.
Instead of pursuing the NCAA path, Miller joined the OHL and played for the Plymouth Whalers in 2011-12. Miller played 66-games with the Whalers before being called up to the Rangers AHL Affiliate, the Connecticut Whale for their playoff run. Miller produced one assist in eight playoff games. After Connecticut was eliminated, Miller was called up to the Rangers for their NHL playoff run, but never suited up for a game.
Miller made his NHL debut in 2012-13. He scored his first two-goals against Evgeni Nabokov and the New York Islanders in a 4-1 win. Miller only played 26-games at the NHL level that season. The following year, he managed to get into 30-games, but Miller was still struggling to find consistent ice time at the NHL level. Miller’s first full season with New York was in 2014-15 when he had 23-points in 58-games averaging less than 13-minutes per game.
At 22-years old in 2015-16, Miller took another step forward and earned the opportunity to play in all 82 games of the 2015-16 season. He broke out offensively with 22-goals and 43-points and his ice time increased to 15-minutes per game. Miller played in all 82 games of the regular season for three consecutive seasons and improved his offensive production across the three seasons. One of Miller’s most iconic goals as a Ranger was in the 2018 Winter Classic against Buffalo when Miller scored the overtime winning goal at Citi Field.
A month later, Miller was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning with teammate Ryan McDonough in exchange for Vladislav Namestnikov, Brett Howden, Libor Hajek, a 1st round pick and conditional 2nd round pick.
The Lightning had a very deep forward group and Miller was given an opportunity with top six minutes in the final 19-games of the regular season. He collected 10-goals and 18-points to close out the regular season. Miller’s production dipped in the playoffs to just 2-goals and 8-points in 17-games. In the off-season, Miller was signed to a 5-year $26.25-Million contract extension. In the first year of his deal, Miller was pushed down the lineup with the amount of talented forward depth the Lightning had. After averaging 17-minutes a game in 2018, Miller averaged less than 15-minutes per game in the 2018-19 season. That said, he still managed to score 13-goals and 47-points through 75-games. The Lightning were dismantled in the playoffs and were swept by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round. Facing a cap crunch, JT Miller was then moved in the off-season to the Vancouver Canucks at the NHL Draft—which was hosted in Vancouver. The Canucks acquired Miller in exchange for Marek Mazanec, a 2019 3rd round pick and conditional 1st round pick in 2020.
At the time, the trade split the fanbase with some thinking it was “pushing the chips in too soon” or that JT Miller “wasn’t worth a 1st”. Thankfully for Vancouver, this turned out to be one of their best trades of the past decade.
JT Miller immediately stepped into a top-six role with Vancouver. He found chemistry with forwards Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson and the trio was dubbed as the “Lotto Line” due to their 6, 40, 9 jersey numbers. Miller set a career-high in points during his first season with Vancouver. He scored 27-goals and 72-points in 69-games. During the playoff bubble, Miller performed well with 6-goals and 18-points across 17-games.
While Vancouver had some incredibly tough seasons after the covid bubble run, Miller continued to produce offensively. After scoring 46-points in 53-games during the North Division season, Miller exploded with a 99-point season in 2021-22. In September, 2022 Vancouver chose to sign JT Miller to a 7-year $56-Million extension. Once again Miller stirred up controversy and debate as many wanted Vancouver to prioritise extending Captain Bo Horvat instead of extending Miller.
Once again, Miller has proved the doubters wrong and finished with 82-points in 81-games in 2022-23 while Horvat was moved to the New York Islanders on January 30th of that season. In the 2023-24 season Miller outscored Horvat by 4-goals and 35-points in the regular season.
Millet set a career high last season with 37-goals and 103-points. He had a resurgence under Rick Tocchet and specifically found another gear in terms of consistent work ethic and defensive reliability. He also had 12-points in 13-playoff games last season.
Miller has 6-years remaining on his contract with Vancouver and currently ranks 14th in all-time scoring for the Canucks. If Miller produces at an elite level for the remainder of his contract, he will likely finish in the top-5 in team scoring.
Wild that he’s been with us for five years already.
Millsy will 100% go down as a franchise icon. That’s a fact
I remember being an initial non-believer and thinking we’d be better off with the pick in 2020. I kept track of it and thought we’d have a better future with future NJD pick Shakir Mukhamadullin instead of Miller.
I was wrong. So, so terribly wrong.
These jerseys doe.
J Tanner Miller is no Tandy Miller!
I hope he retires a Canuck.
Does that include his points before he was a Canuck? I hope not because then Messier would be higher on the list and screw that.
I really hope that we continue the J.T Miller chants this season.
He’s going to be top 10 in franchise history I’m willing to bet that.
You mean 14 days to opening night?
It’s a two way street with Miller. Glad he has found a place to shine and we’re lucky it’s with us. Between his 6 years with NYR and his 2 in TBL he scored 172 & 65 points respectively, for a combined total of 237 pts. With his 5 years with us so far he has nearly doubled it with 402 pts.
Fucking J-T MIL-LER!