J.T. Miller taking leave from Canucks for personal reasons
NY Post
J.T. Miller will be out for the foreseeable future.
The Canucks forward is taking an indefinite leave of absence for personal reasons, the team announced on Tuesday.
“Right now, our sole focus is making sure that J.T. knows the entire organization is here to support him,” Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said. “Out of respect for J.T., we will have no further comment at this time.”
Miller, 31, has 16 points so far this season, which are tied for the second-most on the Canucks.
The Province’s Patrick Johnston reported on BlueSky that Miller’s absence “is not related to substance or alcohol abuse or anything at all like that.”
“It’s about giving the player a chance to re-set himself mentally,” he added. “We know he is obsessed with competing at 100 percent and we can see he hasn’t been. That’s been weighing on him.”
This was near the end of a magnificent American life, and he’d been battling lung and prostate cancer for some time, but Pee Wee Reese was absolutely going to get in the car and make the drive from Louisville to Kansas City. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was honoring his dear friend Jackie Robinson, and Reese knew that meant seeing so many friends from the old days.
The pity is, at this point, the greatness we are watching in real time is threatened every week to be reduced to a footnote. We are witnesses to history, to the rarest form of extended success in a time of professional sport that’s supposed to be ruled by parity. But every year we have to deal with something else first.