{"id":553473,"date":"2026-04-15T23:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:24:28","slug":"the-growth-j-t-millers-found-in-first-season-as-rangers-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553473\/","title":{"rendered":"The growth J.T. Miller&#8217;s found in first season as Rangers captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.T. Miller was tested in his first season as captain of the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>All leaders on struggling teams are, but Miller isn\u2019t cut from the same cloth as some of his NHL counterparts who always seem to know the right things to do and say. Chris Drury had options who would fit that more traditional mold, but the Rangers president and general manager stitched the \u201cC\u201d into Miller\u2019s No. 8 jersey for all of what separates him from the others.<\/p>\n<p>The gravity of Miller\u2019s emotional presence has been both a blessing and a curse.<\/p>\n<p>The Blueshirts\u2019 turbulent season <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/17\/sports\/rangers-mike-sullivan-admits-this-season-has-been-hard-on-j-t-miller\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">naturally felt long for Miller<\/a>, who cited the emotions of the organization\u2019s redirection, the trades and the team\u2019s futility at home as weighing the heaviest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.T. Miller was tested in his first season as captain of the Rangers. All leaders on struggling teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[12962,5,2685,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-553473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-exclusive","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-j-t-miller","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-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116411306212734890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553473","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=553473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}