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Jason Botchford blared the alarms yesterday. The Canucks need to sell (Alex Burrows), sell (Jannik Hansen), sell (Ryan Miller)!

The trio of vets are the three players most likely to be on the move at the trade deadline, if Vancouver does buck the trend and decide to sell off assets to (finally) start a real rebuild.

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Thanks to his no-trade clause, Miller holds the hammer, albeit a small one. He’s got a list of five teams he’d be willing to go to, according to Pierre LeBrun, and three of those teams are in the sunny and soggy confines of California. It makes sense, with his actress wife still based in Hollywood, as Miller said to Ben Kuzma earlier this month.

The starting goaltender is married to Noureen DeWulf, whose acting career is based in Los Angeles where she also raises son Bodhi, who turns two next month.

“I want my wife to be the full and complete person she can be,” said Miller. “She has become a great mother, but she also has (career) aspirations and we’ve always made things work. Hockey is a short window in your life and we always weigh different factors.”