Locker Room Divide Exposed: Rutherford Unleashes Shocking Truth About Miller-Pettersson Feud

The Elias Pettersson/J.T. Miller feud defined the Canucks 2024/25 season, and now President Jim Rutherford has lifted the lid on the entire situation.

The 2024/25 campaign was a very difficult one for the Vancouver Canucks, as the team dealt with injuries, struggles and most of all, the drama that surrounded the very public feud between Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller.

Things got so bad that the front office had no choice but to trade Miller to the New York Rangers, and a few months later, the situation is still being talked about in Vancouver.

In a recent interview, Jim Rutherford addressed the situation, beginning by describing this as more difficult that moving an NHL franchise in five months (something he was a part of with Carolina), and from there, he detailed the struggles of the issues between these players and the impact it had on the locker room.

I don't point the finger at Miller. I don't point the finger at Pettersson.

There was a lot of things going on there around that that effected other people, but the fact of the matter is we won our division the year before with those two players, and we knew there were issues.

There was no reason to make a change when you can win your division when the coach, General Manager and everyone can figure a way to keep it on the rails, but then, for whatever reason, from the very first week of this past season, it went way off the rails.

Everyone worked hard on it, and it got to the point that we all knew that something had to change.