J.T. Miller is going back to the number that fits.
After spending the past season and a half in No. 8, Miller will reclaim No. 10 with the Rangers next season, one of several sweater-number changes the team announced this week.
The switch makes sense on sight alone: No. 8 always looked borrowed on Miller, more Jacob Trouba than J.T. Miller.
Trouba wore it from 2020-24, and Marek Malik had it before him from 2006-08.
Miller’s preferred number was tied up by Artemi Panarin, who had No. 10 after signing with the Rangers in the summer of 2020. But Panarin is now with the Los Angeles Kings after a February trade, and Miller exercised his right to take back the number he wore during his first stint in New York. He also wore No. 10 with the Tampa Bay Lightning after the Blueshirts traded him there in February of 2018, though he had No. 9 with the Canucks.
This will be the second time Miller has worn No. 10 with the Rangers. He spent the better part of five seasons in it before Panarin arrived, and he also briefly wore No. 47 as a rookie in the lockout-shortened 2013 season.
Even as a first-round pick - No. 15 overall in the 2011 draft - he did not have enough pull to take No. 10 from Marian Gaborik. That changed when the Rangers dealt Gaborik to the Columbus Blue Jackets in April of 2013.
No. 10 has had some serious names attached to it in Rangers history. Panarin and Gaborik are on that list, along with Ron Duguay, Pierre LaRouche and Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur.
Esa Tikkanen wore it during the Rangers’ 1994 Stanley Cup run. Counting Miller once, 23 players have worn No. 10 for the franchise.
Miller will also wear a captain’s “C” on the front of it next season.
Here’s how the rest of the new numbers shake out for 2026-27, with rookie Alberts Smit s not included because he signed his entry-level contract Wednesday but has not publicly been assigned a number yet.
Sean Durzi will wear No. 5 after spending his NHL career in No. 50 with the Kings, Arizona Coyotes and Utah Mammoth. That number is currently Will Cuylle’s, so Durzi - acquired July 1 from Utah in the Vincent Trocheck trade - slides into a number that has been issued 30 other times in Rangers history.
It was last worn by defenseman Urho Vaakanainen in 2015, before he switched to No. 18 last season. Notable Rangers to wear No. 5 include Dan Girardi, Barry Beck, Ulf Samuelsson, Carol Vadnais, Matt Cullen and Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion.
Pavel Dorofeyev gets No. 16, the number he wore with the Vegas Golden Knights before they traded him to the Rangers this offseason. The Rangers cleared the way by moving Trocheck.
Dorofeyev comes in after leading Vegas with 37 goals last season and 35 in 2024-25, and he’ll be the 44th player to wear No. 16 for New York. Andy Bathgate and Rod Gilbert both wore it early in their careers before moving on to No. 9 and No. 7, respectively.
Other notable Rangers in No. 16 include Trocheck, Derick Brassard, Sean Avery, Brian Noonan, Pat LaFontaine, Mark Pavelich and Marcel Dionne.
Marcus Pettersson will wear No. 26 for the first time in the NHL after being acquired from the Canucks on July 1. The 30-year-old defenseman wore No. 29 in Vancouver and No. 28 over seven seasons with the Penguins under Mike Sullivan.
He becomes the 28th Ranger to use No. 26, a group that includes Dave Maloney, Martin St. Louis, Joe Kocur and Martin Rucinsky.
Oliver Bjorkstrand is back in No. 28.
He wore No. 22 with the Lightning last season and with Seattle before that, but No. 28 was his number for his first seven NHL seasons with the Blue Jackets. After signing a one-year, $4.5 million deal with the Rangers in free agency, he’ll become the 29th player in team history to wear it.
Steve Larmer, Dominic Moore, Tie Domi, Colton Orr and Tomas Sandstrom are among the notable names who have had No. 28 in New York.
Joonas Korpisalo will keep his familiar No. 70.
The 32-year-old goalie, acquired from the Boston Bruins, has worn that number everywhere since entering the NHL with the Blue Jackets in 2015, including stops with the Kings, Senators and Bruins. He’ll be the third Ranger to wear No.
- Louis Domingue and Mackenzie Skapski are the other two.
Joe Veleno also stays with his preferred number, No. 90.
The 26-year-old center, signed July 1 as a free agent, has worn it with the Red Wings, Blackhawks and Canadiens, and now he’ll do the same on Broadway. He’ll be the fifth Ranger to wear No. 90, following Alexandar Georgiev, Vladislav Namestnikov and Victor Mancini.
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