Drew Miller
Andrew " Drew " Miller (born 17 February 1984 in Dover, New Jersey ) is an American professional ice hockey player who is since November 2009 with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League contract.
Career
Drew Miller began his career in 2000 in the Junior League North American Hockey League at the Capital Centre Pride. During the 2002/ 03 season he moved to the United States Hockey League, the Junior League hochklassigste of the U.S. to the River City Lancers. He finished the season with 25 points in 49 games and helped the team to the finals of the playoffs. In the NHL Entry Draft 2003, he was subsequently selected by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the sixth round at position 186.
Miller went from autumn 2003 to the Michigan State University, where he played for the hockey team, the Michigan State Spartans. There he could improve his qualities further and increased from year to year his points haul. During the 2005/06 season, he led the Spartans as a team captain on the ice and to the title in the CCHA. He was also honored as the best defensive forward of the CCHA.
Shortly after the end of the college season, he was awarded with the Mighty Ducks a two - year contract and completed in May 2006, still a playoff game for the Portland Pirates, the AHL farm team of the Mighty Ducks. Miller graduated from the following 2006/07 season with the Pirates, but missed the playoffs. In April 2007 he was brought to the Anaheim Ducks in the NHL. His first game for the Ducks, he completed the first round of the playoffs against the Minnesota Wild, but after he was initially not used. In the first game of the Stanley Cup final against the Ottawa Senators coach Randy Carlyle surprised when he set Miller as a replacement for the injured Chris Kunitz in the best forward line of Teemu Selanne and Ducks next to Andy McDonald. The use of Miller paid off when he checked into the first third of Ottawa's Wade Redden to the band, making the Ducks came into possession of the puck and it eventually to make it 1-1 by Andy McDonald resulted in the important matches. In the third game of the final series Chris Kunitz was ready for use again and Miller was removed from the squad. The Anaheim Ducks finally won the Stanley Cup in five games
The 2007/08 season began Miller at the Portland Pirates in the AHL, but was called after only one game in the NHL squad the Ducks. Overall, graduated to 2009 Miller 71 NHL games for the Ducks before he was transferred in August 2009 jointly with a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2010 in exchange for Yevgeny Artjuchin to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
In November 2009, Miller was set by the Lightning on the Waiverliste, from the Detroit Red Wings selected him. During the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season he played for the Braehead Clan of the Elite Ice Hockey League.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 CCHA championship with Michigan State University
- 2006 CCHA Best Defensive Forward
- 2006 CCHA All- Tournament Team
- 2006 CCHA Humanitarian Award
- 2007 Stanley Cup win with the Anaheim Ducks
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )
Family
Drew Miller comes from a hockey family. His brother Ryan is first-choice goalkeeper at the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL and his Cousins Kip, Kevin and Kelly Miller also played in the NHL.