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Filip Chytil 2025-26 Stats: 3 goals, 0 assists in 6 games

While the Miller/Rangers side has been clearly disappointing, it's a little harder to find the right terminology to describe the Vancouver side of the deal.

Miller's exit signaled the arrival of Czech-born center Filip Chytil and then-rookie defenseman Victor Mancini, a fifth-round pick of New York in 2022 who is now 23. Also part of the deal was a first-round pick in the 2025 draft, which the Canucks flipped to Pittsburgh a month later in a move that netted Marcus Pettersson and Drew O'Connor.

Chytil had six points in 15 post-trade games with Vancouver last season and opened this year with three goals in six games before a huge, open-ice hit by Tom Wilson knocked him out of a game with Washington last week, and has his long-term future in some doubt given a history that includes multiple concussions.

Mancini, too, is on the shelf as of Sunday night, when he left a game with Edmonton after a hit by Trent Frederic. Coach Adam Foote said afterward there was...