It’s inevitable that people will try to fill the information vacuum, but be responsible in how you’re doing it, the Canucks’ president says.
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He’s been in hockey too long to know otherwise. Sports inevitably lends itself to gossip. Who is being traded for whom, who might the coach or manager be frustrated with.
These things are all fair. People want to chatter about their favourite team and their favourite players.
Miller is on personal leave, looking to get himself right. His return remains to be determined. The focus for the player is to get himself mentally back to where he was. That’s all. When he’s going to be back, Rutherford doesn’t know. The ball is in Miller’s court.
So any notion that Miller somehow has one foot out the hockey playing door is pure fantasy.
“Don’t start making stuff up on someone in his situation. That’s disrespectful,” he said. “People that do this for fun, or for a living, just go back to making up trade rumours.”
But to be clear, the Canucks are not trading Miller.
“No, we are not (trading him),” Rutherford said flatly. “We stand by him.”