
K’Andre Miller underwent surgery in start to his fraught Rangers offseason
NY Post
A pivotal offseason for Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller will coincide with his recovery from surgery on an upper-body injury he sustained toward the end of the 2024-25 season.
The pending restricted free agent attempted to rehab the undisclosed injury, per league source, but ultimately decided surgery was his best option.
He is expected to make a full recovery and be back around the start of next season.
Whether that will be in a Rangers jersey will depend on the negotiations to come.
Miller has been a bonafide top-four defenseman for the Rangers since he made his NHL debut in 2021, posting an average time on ice of more than 20 minutes in each of his first five seasons.
Drafted 22nd overall in 2018, the 6-foot-5 blueliner has been an integral part of the team’s back end.

The deal that brought Aidan Thompson to the Rangers didn’t create the ripple effects that the Artemi Panarin trade did because of who departed the organization. That was only Derrick Pouliot, a 32-year-old defenseman more than two years removed from his last NHL game. It didn’t create the waves like one for, say, Vincent Trocheck, would have because of current NHL players or draft capital the Blueshirts received in return, either.












