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J.T. Miller effort clips are lighting up Rangers Twitter, and the New York Rangers retool suddenly feels like it could start with their captain.
Fans are sharing sequences they read as Miller bailing on plays, and the tone is getting uglier by the hour.
Now that leadership bet is being stress-tested in public, right as Chris Drury openly sets the table for a roster retool. On paper, Miller is still contributing, with 11G-17A-28P so far.
But the eye test is what fans are screaming about, the stops, the routes, the extra stride on the backcheck. The Rangers are 21-25-6, and every «not my problem» moment gets magnified when you are already chasing games.Absolutely unacceptable by the captain.
The guy who was supposed to fix the culture in the locker room, can’t even be bothered to put in the effort on the ice.
What an absolute joke. Get this clown of our team.
J.T. Miller and New York Rangers cannot fake the details
Rangers fans feel duped right now, because the one guy hired to set a standard is getting dragged for not meeting it.
If the clips are even close to what they look like, the fix is simple and uncomfortable, play the full 200 feet, even when the puck is going the other way.
Tactically, the Rangers’ biggest leak has been early breakdowns, and a captain coasting through a change only feeds that problem.
A retool also turns effort into currency, because coaches will hand more minutes to younger legs if the details are cleaner. The cap angle is not small either, Miller carries an $8,000,000 cap hit through 2029-30.
That kind of number is fine when you are driving a line, winning matchups, and setting the tone on the forecheck. It becomes a trade headline fast when the bench is watching clips of a play dying because the first man back did not track.
The next game is the chance to change the conversation, one hard backcheck, one stick-on-puck lift, one shift that looks like it actually matters.
Previously on NY Hockey Insider