In the first move, the Canucks shed one of the most productive players in franchise history due to locker room issues. They acquired a younger pivot and an intriguing blue-line prospect. They rented a high-value first-round pick for a couple of hours.

Star center J.T. Miller is heading back to the New York Rangers as the Vancouver Canucks are finalizing a deal to ship the star forward back to Broadway per NHL insider Darren Dreger. Larry Brooks of the New York Post reported that the Rangers are shipping center Filip Chytil,

Nine months ago, J.T. Miller became the seventh player in Vancouver Canucks history to register a 100-point season. “Right now, it doesn’t really even seem real,” a dejected Quinn Hughes told Sportsnet’s Dan Murphy after a 5-3 Canucks loss to the Dallas Stars on Friday.