Drew Miller

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Drew Miller
Date of birth 17th February 1984
place of birth Dover , New Jersey , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 75 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 6th round, 186th position
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
2000-2002 Capital Center Pride
2002-2003 River City Lancers
2003-2006 Michigan State University
2006-2007 Portland Pirates
2007-2009 Anaheim Ducks
2009 Tampa Bay Lightning
2009-2017 Detroit Red Wings
2012 Braehead clan
2017-2018 Brynäs IF

Andrew "Drew" Miller (born February 17, 1984 in Dover , New Jersey ) is a former American ice hockey player who played 631 games for the Anaheim Ducks , Tampa Bay Lightning and Detroit Red during his active career between 2002 and 2018 Wings in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger . Miller celebrated his greatest career success with the Anaheim Ducks by winning the Stanley Cup in 2007 .

Career

Miller in the Detroit Red Wings jersey (2012)

Drew Miller began his career in 2000 in the junior division of the North American Hockey League at the Capital Center Pride . During the 2002/03 season he moved to the United States Hockey League , the highest-class junior league in the United States, to the River City Lancers . He finished the season with 25 points in 49 games and helped the team through to the final of the playoffs . In the 2003 NHL Entry Draft , he was then selected by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the sixth round at position 186.

Miller went to Michigan State University in the fall of 2003 and played there for their ice hockey team, the Michigan State Spartans. There he was able to keep improving his qualities and increasing his points yield from year to year. During the 2005/06 season he led the Spartans as team captain on the ice and to the title in the CCHA. He was also named the CCHA's best defensive striker.

Shortly after the end of the college season, he was awarded with the Mighty Ducks a two-year contract and completed in May 2006 a playoff game for the Portland Pirates , the AHL - farm team the Mighty Ducks. Miller completed the following 2006/07 season with the Pirates, which, however, missed the playoffs. In April 2007 he was brought to the Anaheim Ducks in the NHL . His first game for the Ducks he completed in the first round of the playoffs against the Minnesota Wild , but then he was not used for the time being. In the first game of the Stanley Cup final against the Ottawa Senators , coach Randy Carlyle surprised when he replaced the injured Chris Kunitz with Miller in the Ducks' best storm row alongside Teemu Selänne and Andy McDonald . The use of Miller paid off when he checked Ottawa's Wade Redden to the gang in the first third , which resulted in the Ducks in possession of the puck and finally the important goal for 1–1 by Andy McDonald resulted. In the third game of the final series, Chris Kunitz was ready for action again and Miller was removed from the squad. The Anaheim Ducks eventually won the Stanley Cup after five games.

The 2007/08 season began Miller with the Portland Pirates in the AHL, but was called up after one game in the NHL roster of the Ducks. Overall, Miller completed 71 NHL games for the Ducks by 2009, before he was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning in August 2009 together with a third-round suffrage in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Yevgeny Artyuchin . In November 2009, after only three months on the team, Miller was put on the waiver list by the Lightning , from which the Detroit Red Wings selected him. During the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season, he played for the Braehead Clan from the Elite Ice Hockey League .

Miller spent the next eight years in the service of the Red Wings. After the 2016/17 season, Miller did not receive a further contract in Detroit and had been looking for a new employer since July 2017. He found this in November 2017 in Brynäs IF from Svenska Hockeyligan , where he played in 29 games until March of the following year. He then ended his active career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2000/01 Capital Center Pride NEAR 37 4th 3 7th 22nd - - - - -
2001/02 Capital Center Pride NEAR 54 18th 16 34 56 - - - - -
2002/03 Capital Center Pride NEAR 11 10 9 19th - - - - - -
2002/03 River City Lancers USHL 49 14th 11 25th 22nd 11 5 4th 9 6th
2003/04 Michigan State University CCHA 41 4th 6th 10 39
2004/05 Michigan State University CCHA 40 17th 16 33 20th
2005/06 Michigan State University CCHA 44 18th 25th 43 30th
2005/06 Portland Pirates AHL - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0
2006/07 Portland Pirates AHL 79 16 20th 36 51 - - - - -
2006/07 Anaheim Ducks NHL - - - - - 3 0 0 0 2
2007/08 Portland Pirates AHL 31 16 20th 36 12 - - - - -
2007/08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 26th 2 3 5 6th - - - - -
2008/09 Iowa chops AHL 53 23 15th 38 10 - - - - -
2008/09 Anaheim Ducks NHL 27 4th 6th 10 17th 13 2 1 3 2
2009/10 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 14th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2009/10 Detroit Red Wings NHL 66 10 9 19th 10 12 1 1 2 4th
2010/11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 67 10 8th 18th 13 9 1 1 2 4th
2011/12 Detroit Red Wings NHL 80 14th 11 25th 20th 5 0 1 1 2
2012/13 Braehead clan EIHL 23 15th 15th 30th 7th - - - - -
2012/13 Detroit Red Wings NHL 44 4th 4th 8th 2 6th 1 1 2 2
2013/14 Detroit Red Wings NHL 82 7th 8th 15th 21st 5 0 1 1 0
2014/15 Detroit Red Wings NHL 82 5 8th 13 25th 7th 1 1 2 2
2015/16 Detroit Red Wings NHL 28 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
2016/17 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 7th 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
2016/17 Detroit Red Wings NHL 55 5 2 7th 18th - - - - -
2017/18 Brynäs IF SHL 29 5 5 10 6th - - - - -
NAHL total 102 32 28 60 78 - - - - -
NCAA overall 125 39 47 86 89
AHL total 170 57 56 113 73 1 0 0 0 0
NHL overall 571 62 60 122 136 60 6th 7th 13 18th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

Drew Miller comes from a hockey family. His brother Ryan is a goalkeeper for the Anaheim Ducks in the NHL and his cousins Kip , Kevin and Kelly Miller also played in the NHL.

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personal data
SURNAME Miller, Drew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Dover , New Jersey, USA