Whatever Miller and Pettersson's feelings about each other, the Canucks' top two centres aren't performing on the ice.

The rift between Vancouver Canucks forwards J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson has dominated headlines around the National Hockey League over the last few weeks, especially in the city of Vancouver. Over the weekend Pettersson did a rather unconvincing job of downplaying the major controversy that has seemingly taken over the Canucks locker room,

Vancouver Canucks forward J.T. Miller firmly denied rumors of a feud with teammate Elias Pettersson, addressing the speculation during a media session on Sunday. Miller criticized the media for fueling the false narrative, dismissing the notion of any tension between him and Pettersson.

J.T. Miller was asked several questions on Sunday regarding the rumors of a rift between himself and teammate Elias Pettersson. His response to speculated

Things are not going well for the Vancouver Canucks right now. The team has only two wins in its last eight games (2-3-3) despite J.T. Miller returning to play six games ago. As a result, the Canucks have only one point ahead of the Dallas Stars and the last playoff spot.

The Vancouver Canucks have had a fine start to the 2024-25 season. But in saying this, it hasn’t been the sort of start they wanted. The Canucks won the Pacific Division in 2023-24, but are fifth place at this time in 2024-25.

It feels like something is going to have to give sooner rather than later when it comes to the Vancouver Canucks and the seemingly giant rift in their locker room between two of the organization’s top players.

Saturday night’s game was the first time since last week that the Vancouver Canucks’ J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson played on the power play together. Even so, the team still lost 5-4 in overtime to the Ottawa Senators.