Barely an hour before the game, news broke that star Canucks forward, J.T. Miller, would be traded back to the New York Rangers. Joining him in the deal are defenceman Erik Brännström and prospect Jackson Dorrington.

The new era of the Vancouver Canucks may be here, but it doesn’t seem to have started. When word started leaking out an hour before game time that J.T. Miller was to be a scratch, then he had been traded,