“The New Jersey Devils have been a late entrant and have held talks with the Canucks on J.T. Miller,” LeBrun said on TSN's "Insider Trading" on Tuesday. “I also think that internally, the Devils are trying to sort of suss out if it makes sense to go all-in on this or not at this point and where they are."

Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin on Monday declined to address reports that forward J.T. Miller was nearly traded to the Rangers over the weekend.

The scuttled J.T. Miller trade between the Canucks and the New York Rangers, which was first reported by Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman on “Hockey Night in Canada,” was close enough to occurring that Vancouver considered not dressing Miller for its Saturday night home game against the Edmonton Oilers.