J.T. Miller was tested in his first season as captain of the Rangers.
All leaders on struggling teams are, but Miller isn’t 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 “C” into Miller’s No. 8 jersey for all of what separates him from the others.
The gravity of Miller’s emotional presence has been both a blessing and a curse.
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