{"id":480476,"date":"2025-12-21T18:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=480476"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:57:55","slug":"new-york-rangers-veteran-j-t-miller-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/21\/new-york-rangers-veteran-j-t-miller-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Veteran Forward Out Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/21\/new-york-rangers-culture-causes-new-lows\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> have received an unwanted present just before Christmas. News emerged that veteran forward and team captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/millejt01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.T. Miller<\/a> is injured. He&#8217;ll be out on a week-to-week basis according to head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sullimi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:tnxjm62feedqybqzsruwe347\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3maji5gq7ik2z\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreibu2krfeny6cfnbr5u5rlvki2a2p4vzzdrnmt4bvxnaqksypg3gry\">\n<p lang=\"en\">A league source said Miller is going to be out week-to-week, but his candidacy for the Olympics won&#39;t be jeopardized.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:tnxjm62feedqybqzsruwe347?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ColinSNewsday (@colinsnewsday.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:tnxjm62feedqybqzsruwe347\/post\/3maji5gq7ik2z?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025-12-21T19:43:36.642Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>New York Rangers Captain J.T. Miller Injured and Out Weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Miller suffered an upper-body injury after getting a hard open-ice check from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/20\/nhl-predictions-december-20th-new-york-rangers-philadelphia-flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/seeleni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Seeler<\/a>. This hit happened in the third period and Miller was upended onto the ice. This is the second time that Miller will miss time due to an upper-body ailment. He missed a pair of games at the end of November. Some reports said that Miller <a  href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/sports\/j-t-miller-set-to-miss-multiple-rangers-games-with-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may have aggravated that injury<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/17\/nhl-predictions-dec-17-winnipeg-jets-vs-st-louis-blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St Louis Blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points in 35 games so far this season. Miller has played for the Rangers, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/18\/nhl-predictions-dec-18-los-angeles-kings-tampa-bay-lightning\/\" target=\"_self\">Tampa Bay Lightning,<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/14\/vancouver-canucks-elias-petterson-placed-on-ir\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> across his 14-year NHL career. The East Palestine, Ohio native is averaging 20 minutes, 46 seconds of ice time so far this campaign. He has a Corsi for of 54.3 and a relative Corsi of 6.3.<\/p>\n<p>Miller has 270 goals and 461 assists for 731 points in 906 career games. New York originally drafted him in the first round, 15th overall in the 2011 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What It Means<\/h2>\n<p>The Rangers captain has done well in his second stint with the club since coming over in the middle of last season from the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>Miller has been one of the more consistent players on a team that has struggled to find consistency so far this campaign. He&#8217;s reformed his partnership with veteran Mika Zibaneajd this season.<\/p>\n<p>New York has been a solid team on the road but has felt the pain of playing at Madison Square Garden. The Blueshirts have been more consistent at MSG as of late, but it&#8217;ll need to get more home victories to get some momentum going.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo by:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Rangers have received an unwanted present just before Christmas. News emerged that veteran forward and team captain J.T. Miller is injured. He&#8217;ll be out on a week-to-week basis according to head coach Mike Sullivan. A league source said Miller is going to be out week-to-week, but his candidacy for the Olympics won&#39;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":474371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,6671,14,34,4548],"tags":[1576,1630,6259,7603],"class_list":["post-480476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-injury","tag-j-t-miller","tag-new-york-rangers-news","tag-nick-seeler"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480477,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480476\/revisions\/480477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}