NASHVILLE — It’s more difficult to talk about a player being at the top of his game when his team is losing every other night, but Rangers left wing J.T. Miller has played consistently strong hockey lately, and it’s time to give the young man his due — even if his coach often publicly does not.
Miller stood out shift-after-shift before the Christmas break amid of sea of drowning Rangers as a hard worker playing straight-ahead, effective hockey, winning battles and generating offensive zone time. He even gave Alain Vigneault a lot when shifted to his less-preferred position of center in Minnesota on Dec.