{"id":413593,"date":"2026-01-18T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413593\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:55:15","slug":"rangers-need-j-t-millers-leadership-now-more-than-ever-with-team-in-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413593\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers need J.T. Miller&#8217;s leadership now more than ever with team in transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Rangers \u201cretool\u201d may hinge on Chris Drury\u2019s roster reconstruction, but so much of the team\u2019s direction will depend on captain J.T. Miller, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That fact still very much applies in the aftermath of Drury <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/16\/sports\/chris-drury-promises-retool-for-rangers-in-latest-letter-to-fans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declaring his intentions to rework the Blueshirts<\/a> on Friday. Leadership will be pivotal for what\u2019s ahead, but so will the example Miller sets for the rest of the team on and off the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel a lot of responsibility right now, and there\u2019s no doubt of that,\u201d Miller told The Post just hours before the team released a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers responded by storming into Philadelphia Saturday afternoon and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/17\/sports\/rangers-snap-losing-streak-day-after-chris-drurys-retool-promise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cruising to a 6-2 victory over the Flyers.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Rangers \u201cretool\u201d may hinge on Chris Drury\u2019s roster reconstruction, but so much of the team\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,2685,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,350,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-413593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-j-t-miller","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115913616608518638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}