WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s not quite like he left the crease a starter and is returning as a backup, but Ryan Miller knows the landscape changed in the three weeks while he was injured. Jacob Markstrom altered it.
Miller is still the Vancouver Canucks’ No. 1 goalie. He was pledged $18 million US over three years by general manager Jim Benning before last season to fill that role, and both he and Benning plan, at this point, to see it through.
But Markstrom elevated his status in the eight games he started after Miller, bizarrely, injured his groin Dec.