J.T. Miller's return to Vancouver a glimpse at the past and his future

New York Rangers' J.T. Miller during a game against Minnesota earlier this month at Madison Square Garden in New York. Photo by Frank Franklin II / AP

Whatever happens Tuesday night at Rogers Arena , whatever you make of how he departed, J.T. Miller ’s return to Vancouver was always going to be an emotional one. Article content

This was a place he and his wife Natalie had chosen to be. He had happily signed a seven-year contract to be here. They were raising their children here. Article content Article content

And then everything went south. It’s still a bit of a behind-the-scenes mystery, one that there have been plenty of whispers about but little firmly on the record. What we know that is there was a nasty split between Miller and Elias Pettersson , one that was insurmo