A Completed Trade Between the Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers Takes a Major Turn

Due to a highly publicized rift between former Canuck teammates J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson that clearly went to far, Vancouver management was forced to make a hard decision.

After debating for several weeks to try and decide who should be the one to leave town, they ultimately decided to ship Miller to the New York Rangers.

Now, Barely two months removed from this completed blockbuster trade, it is already looking like it could be a massive loss for the Canucks.

Although at the beginning it was up in the air on who would be the winners of this trade, but considering how the season has gone, the injuries that have piled up and the lack of production out of Pettersson, it seems Patrik Allvin and the Canucks pulled the trigger on this deal too soon.

It was looking great as Filip Chytil was playing the best hockey of his career in a new role with the Canucks, Marcus Pettersson solidified the back end and Pettersson was slowly getting his game back.

But, as all things do for the Canucks in 2025, it all went down hill.

The Canucks have missed the playoffs, Chytil is now on the long-term IL (injured list) with his 5th career concussion that is career threatening and now Elias Pettersson is likely done for the rest of the year with an undisclosed injury.

All of this disappointment was all tied together perfectly when the Canucks home crowd in Rogers Arena made their feelings abundantly clear about the move as they started chanting J.T. Millers name in a blowout loss to the Seattle Kraken Thursday.

One top of all that, even though he went through a small dip in production for a couple weeks, Miller has been on fire for the Rangers, becoming a point-per-game player once again, scoring 10 goals and 16 assists for 26 points in 26 games.

At the end of the day, it will take at least a couple of seasons to really get an idea on which team has won this trade, but as it stands right now, the Rangers are laughing all the way to the bank while the Canucks have a long summer off.