Nine months ago, J.T. Miller became the seventh player in Vancouver Canucks history to register a 100-point season. “Right now, it doesn’t really even seem real,” a dejected Quinn Hughes told Sportsnet’s Dan Murphy after a 5-3 Canucks loss to the Dallas Stars on Friday.

In the first move, the Canucks shed one of the most productive players in franchise history due to locker room issues. They acquired a younger pivot and an intriguing blue-line prospect. They rented a high-value first-round pick for a couple of hours.

The Vancouver Canucks made their long-anticipated move on Friday, trading J.T. Miller to the New York Rangers, the franchise that originally drafted the forward back in 2011. The trade follows months of speculation about a rift between Miller and teammate Elias Pettersson,