Ever since the close of the Vancouver Canucks’ 2018-19 season, general manager Jim Benning knew he needed to bulk up the team’s top-six with a nice mixture of size, speed, defensive skill and scoring ability. Look no further than J.T. Miller. The 27-year-old American winger has all the right tools to fit the bill and he proved that this year in his first season as a Canucks player.
Fresh off a 47-point season playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning, the rights to Miller was acquired during the offseason via trade. Targetted by Benning to be immediately injected into the top-six, Miller would be placed alongside the team’s most serious talent in an effort to bring up his points per game as well as the overall point production of players around him.