Jason Miller (ice hockey player)

Jason Miller
Date of birth	March 1, 1971
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	Center / left wing
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1989 , 1st round, 18th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1987-1991	Medicine Hat Tigers
1991-1993	Utica Devils
1993-1994	Albany River Rats
1994-1995	Adirondack Red Wings
1995-1996	HPK Hameenlinna
1996-1997	San Antonio Dragons
1997-1998	Düsseldorfer EG
1998-2002	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2004-2008	Polar bears Regensburg
2008-2010	Dresden Ice Lions

Jason Miller (born March 1, 1971 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . Until January 2010 he played for the Dresdner Eislöwen in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey on the position of the left winger . During his career, he completed six NHL games for the New Jersey Devils .

Career

Jason Miller began his career with the Medicine Hat Tigers alongside Trevor Linden , Wayne Hynes, and Chris Osgood . During the NHL Entry Draft 1989 he was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the first round in 18th place ( drafted ). In his final season in the Western Hockey League he reached 136 points scorer in 66 games and was used because of this performance by the Devils in an NHL game.

In the following two years Jason Miller played in the American Hockey League with the Utica Devils , the then farm team of the New Jersey Devils. Due to good performance in Utica with 55 and 71 points, respectively, he got further missions in the NHL, but could not prevail there. After he played in the 1993/94 season for the new farm team of the Devils, the Albany River Rats , but despite outstanding performance - with 22 goals and 53 assists - no further chance in the NHL squad, he moved to the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings . At the Adirondack Red Wings he was the team's second-best scorer with 32 goals and 33 assists behind Andrew McKim . Since he again got no missions in the NHL, he decided to move to Europe at the age of 24. His first station there was the HPK Hämeenlinna in the SM-liiga , where he scored four goals and six assists in 22 games.

After a brief stint at ESV Kaufbeuren in the German Ice Hockey League , he returned to North America and tried to recommend himself for an NHL team with the Peoria Rivermen . In the 1996/97 season he played for San Antonio Dragons in the International Hockey League and performed well, but still got no contract offer from the NHL. Therefore, he decided to return to Europe and joined the Düsseldorfer EG . A year later he moved within the DEL to the Nürnberg Ice Tigers , for which he completed four seasons and achieved 83 goals and 111 assists in 210 DEL games.

Via the Hamburg Freezers and the Schwenninger Wild Wings , he joined the Eisbären Regensburg in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga in 2004 , where he found his old strength. He was the top scorer of his team several times and was one of the team's leaders alongside Martin Ančička .

In April 2008 he tore his Achilles tendon and was then initially without a club. From November 2008 he trained with the Dresdner Eislöwen and a short time later was licensed for the 2nd Bundesliga.

In January 2010, Miller was released from the Ice Lions.

Achievements and Awards

• Winning the Memorial Cup in 1988
• 1991 WHL East Second All-Star Team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ eishockey.info, player portrait: Jason Miller
2. ↑ Dresdner Eislöwen: Jason Miller storms for Dresden - ligament injury in David Cermak. In: eishockey.info. November 26, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung , Dresdner Eislöwen release Miller and Mann ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Jason Miller at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jason Miller at eurohockey.com
• Jason Miller at legendsofhockey.net (English)