Kelly Miller (ice hockey player)

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United StatesUnited States  Kelly Miller Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 3, 1963
place of birth Lansing , Michigan , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 90 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 9th lap, 183rd position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1979-1981 Redford Royals
1981-1985 Michigan State University
1985-1987 New York Rangers
1987-1999 Washington Capitals
1999-2000 Grand Rapids Griffins

Kelly David Miller (born March 3, 1963 in Lansing , Michigan ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach , who played 1176 games for the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals in the course of his playing career between 1981 and 2000 National Hockey League on the position of the left winger . In addition, Miller represented his country of birth on an international level several times at the ice hockey world championship and the 1987 Canada Cup .

Career

After Miller had played successfully with the Redford Royals in the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League between 1979 and 1981 and had scored 158 points in 93 appearances there within two years , he followed in his father's footsteps as the eldest of three sons in the summer of 1981 and began a four year degree in business administration from Michigan State University . At the same time, he played for the university's ice hockey team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association , which was part of the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In college games , the winger was able to collect 30 points in his rookie season and won the CCHA division championship with the university - as in the following three years. In the following years he increased his points from 35 and 49 to 50 in his fourth and final year, in which he led the team on the ice as captain . His outstanding final year in college finally brought him the election to the First All-Star Team of the CCHA and the Second All-American Team of the Western Conference of the NCAA. He was also nominated as one of ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award for best college player of the season.

At the end of the 1984/85 season , when Miller had finished his studies, he was signed by the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League , which had put him in the ninth round in the ninth round three years earlier in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft had selected after it was not included in the draft of the previous year. During the remainder of the season, the attacker made his debut in the NHL for the Rangers and played five games in the regular season and another three in the playoffs . For the following season , the winger made the leap into the regular squad of the "Broadway Blueshirts" and played 74 games in which he got 33 points. Although a similar quota in the first half of the 1986/87 season , he was transferred to league rivals Washington Capitals on New Year's Day 1987 together with Bob Crawford and Mike Ridley . In return, Bobby Carpenter and a second-round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 moved to New York.

Even in the US state capital, in which Miller completed a total of 13 seasons for the Capitals, he did not find the offensive game that had distinguished him during his junior and college days. Only once did he reach the mark of 20 goals this season, as he developed more and more into a defensively oriented attacking player who was mostly set up in a storm row with Mike Ridley and Michal Pivoňka . His defensive qualities acquired over the years brought him a final nomination for the award of the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the best defensive striker of the NHL at the end of the 1991/92 season . The other years were also successful for Miller. Between 1990 and 1994 and 1995 and 1997 he was one of the team's assistant captains. At times he was representative of the franchise in the National Hockey League Players' Association NHLPA and reached the final of the Stanley Cup with the team in the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1998 . There Washington was subject to the Detroit Red Wings .

Already after the 1998/99 season Miller had not received a new contract with the Washington Capitals and at the beginning of the season sat in as a coaching assistant at the Grand Rapids Griffins in the International Hockey League . This engagement was expanded in the course of the 1999/2000 season to an engagement as a playing assistant coach, so that at the end of his career he played 28 games. For the 2000/01 season he was hired as an assistant coach by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim from the NHL, before he accepted the same post in the New York Islanders franchise in the summer of 2001 . He filled this post for two game years until the end of the 2002/03 season . He then retired from ice hockey until 2011. Since 2011 he has been an assistant coach at his alma mater , Michigan State University.

International

For his home country, Miller was used in both the junior and senior classes. The striker ran starting with the Junior World Championship in 1981 in three consecutive Junior World Championships for the U20 national team of the United States . After sixth places in 1981 and 1982 , the striker led the team at the 1983 Junior World Cup in Leningrad, Soviet Union, as team captain to finish in fifth place.

Miller made his debut for the US men's selection at the 1985 World Cup in the Czechoslovak capital, Prague . With five scorer points in ten tournament appearances, the college player at the time played a decisive role in achieving fourth place for the Americans. In addition, the striker recommended himself for a nomination for the Canada Cup 1987 , where he remained pointless in five missions and thus could not prevent the preliminary round from the United States. With the 1989 World Cup in Sweden , Miller finally completed his third international tournament within four years. After a break of several years in international play, his participation in the 1999 World Cup in Norway at the end of his career was his last World Cup tournament. Despite participating in a total of six world title fights, Miller was unable to win a medal.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1982 CCHA Championship with Michigan State University
  • 1983 CCHA championship with Michigan State University
  • 1984 CCHA championship with Michigan State University
  • 1984 CCHA First All-Academic Team
  • 1985 CCHA championship with Michigan State University
  • 1985 CCHA First All-Star Team
  • 1985 CCHA First All-Academic Team
  • 1985 NCAA West First All-American Team

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1979/80 Redford Royals GLJHL 45 31 37 68 6th - - - - -
1980/81 Redford Royals GLJHL 48 39 51 90 8th - - - - -
1981/82 Michigan State University CCHA 40 11 19th 30th 21st
1982/83 Michigan State University CCHA 36 16 19th 35 12
1983/84 Michigan State University CCHA 46 28 21st 49 12
1984/85 Michigan State University CCHA 43 27 23 50 21st
1984/85 New York Rangers NHL 5 0 2 2 2 3 0 0 0 2
1985/86 New York Rangers NHL 74 13 20th 33 52 16 3 4th 7th 4th
1986/87 New York Rangers NHL 38 6th 14th 20th 22nd - - - - -
1986/87 Washington Capitals NHL 39 10 12 22nd 26th 7th 2 2 4th 0
1987/88 Washington Capitals NHL 80 9 23 32 35 14th 4th 4th 8th 10
1988/89 Washington Capitals NHL 78 19th 21st 40 45 6th 1 0 1 2
1989/90 Washington Capitals NHL 80 18th 22nd 40 49 15th 3 5 8th 23
1990/91 Washington Capitals NHL 80 24 26th 50 29 11 4th 2 6th 6th
1991/92 Washington Capitals NHL 78 14th 38 52 49 7th 1 2 3 4th
1992/93 Washington Capitals NHL 84 18th 27 45 32 6th 0 3 3 2
1993/94 Washington Capitals NHL 84 14th 25th 39 32 11 2 7th 9 0
1994/95 Washington Capitals NHL 48 10 13 23 6th 7th 0 3 3 4th
1995/96 Washington Capitals NHL 74 7th 13 20th 30th 6th 0 1 1 4th
1996/97 Washington Capitals NHL 77 10 14th 24 33 - - - - -
1997/98 Washington Capitals NHL 76 7th 7th 14th 41 10 0 1 1 4th
1998/99 Washington Capitals NHL 62 2 5 7th 29 - - - - -
1999/00 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 26th 4th 4th 8th 8th 7th 0 1 1 2
GLJHL total 93 70 88 158 14th - - - - -
NCAA overall 165 82 82 164 66
NHL overall 1057 181 182 463 512 119 20th 34 54 65

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1981 United States June World Cup 6th place 5 0 0 0 0
1982 United States June World Cup 6th place 7th 2 4th 6th 0
1983 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 0 1 1 0
1985 United States WM 4th Place 10 2 3 5 2
1987 United States Canada Cup 5th place 5 0 0 0 0
1989 United States WM 6th place 9 2 4th 6th 2
1999 United States WM 6th place 6th 0 1 1 2
Juniors overall 19th 2 5 7th 0
Men overall 30th 4th 8th 12 6th

( 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

Miller comes from a family deeply rooted in ice hockey. His father and uncle were already active on the Michigan State University ice hockey team . In addition to him, his two younger brothers Kevin and Kip found their way through the university team to the National Hockey League and later also to the US national team , with which Kevin even participated in the Olympic Games.

The two cousins Ryan Miller and Drew Miller also found jobs for several years with various NHL franchises through Michigan State University . Ryan Miller, the most successful member of the extended family, won the silver medal as the goalkeeper of the US team at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and was also named the most valuable player of the tournament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joe Pelletier: Washington Capitals Legends: Kelly Miller. February 13, 2008, accessed September 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Kelly Miller Bio - Michigan State Official Athletic Site. Michigan State University , accessed September 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Kelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Kelly David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Lansing , Michigan