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

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.

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.

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 insurmountable in the end.

It was Miller who went to management and said it was time to get a fresh start somewhere else. He landed back with the New York Rangers, the team that had first drafted him. If his future