used the word \u201cvalidation\u201d <\/a>after some questioned his inclusion on the roster.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the expert take on the Blueshirts\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\u201cI mean, we won a gold medal, right? It\u2019s validation,\u201d he said. \u201cI think for me personally, just knowing all the noise that was out there, and knowing what my role was going to be over there, and being able to do it as well as we did, me and J.T. being 100 percent on the penalty kill, and talking a lot of D-zone faceoffs, doing all that stuff, there\u2019s definitely a lot of validation. To be able to come back with the gold is something that will stick with me forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
The experience must lessen the sting of such a disappointing season for the Rangers, who won only three of their final 18 games before the break to fall to the bottom of the Eastern Conference at 22-29-6 overall with the March 6 trade deadline looming.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot much sleep coming here today, but we know we need to get on the ice and be back with the team,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a game [Thursday], so I wanted to make sure we\u2019re getting back with the guys and get in the flow of things. So it\u2019s great to see everybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the part where we\u2019re professionals and have a job to do, and we have to obviously change the narrative over the last six weeks of the season.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers\u2019 gold medal-winning contingent returned to their training facility Wednesday, rejoining the last-place team after experiencing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,2685,2310,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,3042],"class_list":{"0":"post-472284","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-mike-sullivan-nhl","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkrangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-rangers","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116134880301674362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472284","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=472284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}