{"id":39346,"date":"2018-12-23T16:46:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=39346"},"modified":"2018-12-23T16:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T21:46:46","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-colin-miller-to-miss-2nd-straight-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/12\/23\/vegas-golden-knights-colin-miller-to-miss-2nd-straight-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights Colin Miller To Miss 2nd Straight Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> announced that defensemen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milleco02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colin Miller<\/a><\/strong> will miss his second straight game tonight with an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Golden Knights defenseman Colin Miller ruled out for tonight&#39;s game vs Kings. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VegasBorn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#VegasBorn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Schoen \ud83d\uddde (@DavidSchoenLVRJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidSchoenLVRJ\/status\/1076890580326658049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Colin Miller Injured<\/h1>\n<p>There is no source to the injury but he didn&#8217;t play in last night&#8217;s game vs <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. He was out skating alone this morning before practice.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season,\u00a0Miller has scored two goals and 15 assists for 17 points to go along with 24 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 55.1 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 0.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Miller spent his first two seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> before being selected\u00a0by the Vegas Golden Knights in the expansion draft. He has 21 goals and 66 assists for 87 career points in 221 career games. He was originally drafted by the Los Angles Kings in the fifth round, 151st overall in the 2012 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":nw\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":nv\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The injury appears to be minor and the Knights will give an update after the holiday break. Miller who had played in all 118 games since being selected by the Knights was out Saturday vs Montreal. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/karlswi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Karlsson<\/a><\/strong> is now the only player that has played in all of Vegas 119 games. Miller has collect over half his points this season on the man advantage. The Knights will <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huntbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brad Hunt<\/a><\/strong> to take Miller&#8217;s spot in the lineup. Miller was playing alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcnabbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden McNabb<\/a><\/strong> on the third pairing. In the Knights first season Miller recorded more point then he had combined during his two seasons in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Hunt took Miller&#8217;s spot in the lineup as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/engelde01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deryk Engelland<\/a><\/strong> moved up to the second pairing. Hunt has played in 11 games this season picking up two goals and three assists in those games. This means the Knights will be a little bit smaller on their third pairing which may affect them seeing that they play a very physical game.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"aS1w4FKpRFJh4yHDyl4Ivw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1080195900\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'aS1w4FKpRFJh4yHDyl4Ivw',sig:'yaZPfL1cvzK7PdsfEmulPjDc89dpAlAi0cYkYrQuv2w=',w:'594px',h:'465px',items:'1080195900',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights announced that defensemen Colin Miller will miss his second straight game tonight with an undisclosed injury. Golden Knights defenseman Colin Miller ruled out for tonight&#39;s game vs Kings. #VegasBorn &mdash; David Schoen \ud83d\uddde (@DavidSchoenLVRJ) December 23, 2018 Colin Miller Injured There is no source to the injury but he didn&#8217;t play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":39350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,807],"tags":[1568,37,38,955,961],"class_list":["post-39346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-colin-miller","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}