Rangers bring back J.T. Miller in trade with Canucks for Filip Chytil, Victor Mancini, first-round pick

Sometimes you can go home again.

The Rangers acquired J.T. Miller from Vancouver in a trade Friday night that sent Filip Chytil, prospect defenseman Victor Mancini and a protected first-round draft pick to the Canucks. The Rangers also received Jackson Dorrington and Erik Brannstrom in the deal, according to multiple reports.

Miller, whom the Rangers selected with the 15th overall pick in the 2011 draft, played the first six years of his career with the Blueshirts before being traded him to Tampa Bay during the 2017-18 season as part of then-general manager Jeff Gorton’s organizational rebuilding project. Miller signed a five-year, $26.25 million contract with Vancouver on June 26, 2018, and subsequently agreed to a seven-year, $56 million deal with the Canucks in September 2022.

The 31-year-old has a slashline of nine goals and 26 assists for 35 points in 40 games this season. He recorded his first 100-plus point season in 2023-24 when he scored 37 goals and added 66 assists for 103 points.

However, he has been embroiled in a feud with Canucks center Elias Pettersson that caused team president Jim Rutherford to tell the Globe and Mail newspaper Tuesday that “there’s not a good solution that would keep this group together.”

Miller was asked by reporters Wednesday in Nashville about his thoughts regarding Rutherford’s comments, and he said, “I don’t have any. …I’m not commenting on this.”