{"id":264482,"date":"2025-09-29T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264482\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:37:10","slug":"rangers-j-t-miller-leaves-practice-with-non-contact-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264482\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; J.T. Miller leaves practice with non-contact injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.T. Miller suffered a non-contact injury at MSG Training Center on Monday and was not able to finish practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers captain appeared to strain either a groin or a hamstring as he attempted to whack a puck out of the zone while falling to his knees on the ice. <\/p>\n<p>He stayed down for some time before gingerly skating off, hunched over in apparent pain, to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Since he was being tended to by trainers after practice, Miller was not made available to the media.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.91308594;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37245107\" width=\"539\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/new-york-rangers-center-j-112148044.jpg\" alt=\"J.T. Miller, seen here in action against the Islanders on Sept. 25, 2025, left Monday's Rangers practice with a non-contact injury.\" class=\"wp-image-37245107\"  \/>J.T. Miller, seen here in action against the Islanders on Sept. 25, 2025, left Monday\u2019s Rangers practice with a non-contact injury. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s being evaluated,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said after the morning skate out on Long Island, ahead of the Rangers\u2019 exhibition matchup with the Islanders at UBS Arena Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>There was no other update provided by the Blueshirts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Prior to last season, Miller missed only one or two games in each of the three campaigns from 2021-24. He missed 10 games in 2024-25 while in Vancouver due to the leave of absence he took from the team in November, which was for \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d amid an ongoing feud with Canucks teammate Elias Pettersson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Miller, who returned to New York in a Jan. 31 trade, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/16\/sports\/rangers-name-j-t-miller-new-captain-before-2025-26-nhl-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was named captain of the Blueshirts<\/a> days before training camp. <\/p>\n<p>After spending the first six seasons of his NHL career with the Rangers, Miller was brought back to serve in a critical long-term leadership role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.T. Miller suffered a non-contact injury at MSG Training Center on Monday and was not able to finish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[80411,1302,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-264482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-j-t-miller","9":"tag-new-york-rangers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115289040334690658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}