Rangers vs. Oilers: What Is a Goal, Really?
The Rangers’ scoring drought is absurd, but J.T. Miller’s message was the kind of grounded leadership this team sorely lacked a year ago.
- I am going to leave J.T. Miller's postgame comments here at the top, and if you have not listened to them yet, please do before you read the rest of the article. The entire scrum with Miller is worth your time if you can find it, but the highlights below will do the trick.
"First of all, let's not make this bigger than it is. It's game five. A lot to like about our game. It's a unique situation but let's not blow this out of proportion here"
— Rangers Videos (@SNYRangers) October 15, 2025
- J.T. Miller on the Rangers' three-game goalless streak to open the season at home pic.twitter.com/g72HL2DcXc
"We can all go home and sleep well knowing we played another good hockey game. We're competitors, we want to win, we'd love to see the puck go in the net. But right now it's not. It's on us to be mature about this"
— Rangers Videos (@SNYRangers) October 15, 2025
- J.T. Miller pic.twitter.com/kfxoCZqzqT
- This is some real leadership, and something the New York Rangers very simply did not have last year. This is the captain of the organization standing behind the process and not the results of his hockey team. He is right; this is a unique situation (seriously, I have never seen anything like this before in my 37 years of being a Rangers fan). He's also right that the team is playing remarkably good hockey. At one point he mentioned the team needing to ensure they didn't go "off the radar" to find a solution to the problem. He's right about that, as well.
- I totally understand being frustrated and annoyed. Like I said above, I can't even really fathom what's happening right now. But if nothing else, something being so outside the bounds of the possible (at least until last night), should tell you all you need to know about what this is: insane, "only the New York Rangers can do this" type of luck.
