{"id":88453,"date":"2020-12-23T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T01:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=88453"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:23:48","slug":"ryan-miller-signs-with-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/12\/23\/ryan-miller-signs-with-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Goalie Ryan Miller Signs With Anaheim Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks have signed veteran free agent goalie <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/millery01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Miller<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year contract worth $1 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anaheim <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ducks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Ducks<\/a> have re-signed goalie Ryan Miller to a 1 year contract worth $1,000,000 all in base salary.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/In9BPWhGvj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/In9BPWhGvj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapFriendly\/status\/1341905082850357255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ducks Sign Ryan Miller<\/h2>\n<p>Over his 17-year NHL career Miller has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. He has a career record of 387 wins, 281 losses and 86 ties in 780 games. The East Lansing, Mich. native also has a career save percentage of .915 and a goals-against-average of 2.61. Miller also has 44 career shutouts in his long career.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he went 9-6-4 with a 3.10 goals-against-average and .907 save percentage. It was the first season Miller did not get a shutout since 2012-13 with the Sabres. Buffalo originally drafted him in the fifth round, 138th overall in the 1999 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Miller was a first-team league All-Star and won the Vezina Trophy in 2010 with Buffalo. He finished fourth that season in the Hart Trophy voting.<\/p>\n<p>Many rumble that Miller will serve as the Taxi Squad goalie in Anaheim. Given his short term and cheap price, that might end up coming to fruition.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>There was speculation that Miller was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/06\/20\/ryan-miller-re-signs-with-anaheim-ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">leaning towards retirement<\/a>. However, it looks like he&#8217;s going to give it at least another season. The 40-year-old served as a capable backup for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=gibsojo02,gibsojo01&amp;search=John+Gibson&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Gibson<\/a> with the Anaheim Ducks the last few seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Miller finding a job in a glutted goalie market is a testament to his ability. He may not be able to make the saves like he used to, but he can fill in for a handful of games. He&#8217;s also a veteran presence in the locker room and can help out any younger goalies.<\/p>\n<p>The former Michigan State product also wants to get some more time in net before he calls it a career. He was very dominant for a stretch of time in his career.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/05\/gettyimages-1211699707-594x594-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks have signed veteran free agent goalie Ryan Miller to a one-year contract worth $1 million. Anaheim #Ducks have re-signed goalie Ryan Miller to a 1 year contract worth $1,000,000 all in base salary.https:\/\/t.co\/In9BPWhGvj &mdash; CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) December 24, 2020 Ducks Sign Ryan Miller Over his 17-year NHL career Miller has played for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":76307,"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":[34,20,4547,4548],"tags":[5738,123,2569,955,563,1137],"class_list":["post-88453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ducks","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-hockey-news","tag-john-gibson","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-ryan-miller","tag-vezina-trophy"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88453","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}