'I burn for it': Canucks' Miller savours shot to step up in playoffs

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'I burn for it': Canucks' Miller savours shot to step up in playoffs

VANCOUVER — The irony in the evolution of J.T. Miller is that his best years in the NHL have been spent until now without the playoff hockey required to test and validate the better version of himself. But that’s the problem with wisdom, isn’t it? Its arrival is unpredictable and very often late. The poorer version of Miller, when he was preoccupied with points and ice time and, in his words, “knew nothing” about the Stanley Cup Playoffs, was wi…