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JT Miller traded to New York Rangers for Filip Chytil, Victor Mancini, and a first-round draft pick

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The Vancouver Canucks have finally found JT Miller a landing spot after weeks of trade speculation.

Miller, Erik Brannstrom, and Jackson Dorrington have been dealt east to the New York Rangers for Filip Chytil, Victori Mancini, and a protected first-round draft pick. Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman was the first to report the full trade, adding to an initial report from the New York Post’s Larry Brooks.

The 31-year-old Miller was originally drafted by the Rangers in the first round of the 2011 NHL Draft and played parts of six seasons in New York before ultimately being moved to the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2018. He didn’t break out as a star in the NHL until being traded to the Canucks the next year, recording 72 points (27g, 45a) in his first season out west.

Miller posted his first 100-point season last year, notching 103 points (37g, 66a) in 81 games. He is in the fourth year of the seven-year, $56 million contract he signed in 2022.

The Canucks were forced to move on from the Ohio native due to strife in their locker room between Miller and fellow star Elias Pettersson.

“I felt like for a long time that there was a solution here because everybody has worked on it, including the parties involved,” Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford told NHL.com’s Kevin Woodley. “But it only gets resolved for a short period of time and then it festers again, and so it certainly appears like there’s not a good solution that would keep this group together.”

Chytil, the other major part of the trade, has 20 points (11g, 9a) in 41 games this season. The 25-year-old Czech forward was New York’s first-round selection in the 2017 NHL Draft. He’ll be joined by Mancini, a 2022 fifth-round pick, who has played 15 games for the Rangers this season.

Brannstrom, a 25-year-old defender, played 28 games with the Canucks earlier this year but has been in the AHL with Abbotsford for the last four-plus weeks. Dorrington is a 20-year-old, 2022 sixth-round pick currently playing for Northeastern University in the NCAA.

Friedman adds that the first-round pick Vancouver receives will be top-13 protected this year. The Canucks will also not be retaining any of Miller’s salary.

Update (9:12 pm): The Rangers have made the trade official.

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