Thursday\u2019s 6-3 win over the Jets<\/a>, the Blueshirts head coach left the door open for Miller to return to the lineup in Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ll cross that bridge when we get to it,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n
Considering how well the new-look top line of Gabe Perreault, Mika Zibanejad and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re is performing, it\u2019s hard to imagine Miller slotting into his old spot when he is recovered from his upper-body injury and activated off injured reserve.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Adam Edstrom skated on the left wing of the second line as a possible placeholder for Miller.<\/p>\n
\u201cEddy\u2019s now got a few games under his belt coming off the injury,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cHe\u2019s a big, strong guy, as you know, and he skates really well. I think he has a defensive conscience to his game. He\u2019s hard to play against, just by nature of his physical stature \u2014 his size, his skating ability, his reach \u2014 and he\u2019s a disruptive player on the forecheck. He can make it hard on defensemen. He can force turnovers, and usually he creates opportunity for himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at the scoresheet every night at the end of games, Eddy has an uncanny way of ending up on the positive side of that. He creates a lot of opportunities. And so we thought maybe we would give him a shot up the lineup and see if he can help us in that capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thursday was the fifth straight game Miller has missed, as well as the 14th because of injury this season.<\/p>\n
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With 14 goals and 24 assists through 51 games, Miller appears to have been hampered by one injury or another through a good portion of the season. <\/p>\n
This is the second upper-body issue the 32-year-old has dealt with this season.<\/p>\n
Braden Schneider skated on the left flank of the second power-play unit next to Conor Sheary, Jonny Brodzinski, Will Cuylle and Vladislav Gavrikov on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve talked about his game all year long,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cI think it\u2019s more about when you look at that second unit, they tend to get the last 25-plus seconds of the power play. It\u2019s nice to have two defensemen on the ice in that circumstance. But also, you know, Vladi up top is good at getting pucks through and Schneids provides a one-time threat on that backside. We don\u2019t have a lot of right-handed shots. So there\u2019s a number of reasons around it, but that\u2019s some of it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG, Manitoba \u2014 Right wing prospect Brody Lamb signed his entry-level contract with the Rangers, The Post first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[1880,5,23473,35,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-501004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-college-hockey","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116221048426402008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501004","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=501004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Rangers signed prospect Brody Lamb to an entry-level contract on March 12, 2026. Robert Sabo for New York Post<\/p>\n