Although it never hurts a new face’s staying case to throw his weight around, Kevan Miller’s snowballing hit count hardly completes the impression he is making in his first prolonged stint with the Boston Bruins.
Rather, it is the who’s who on his list of recent body-check recipients, the times of the hits and the occurrences, or sometimes lack thereof, in the aftermath of those hits. That is what lends the substance to Miller’s performance over the last calendar week, wherein Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli offered him a two-year contract extension.
Miller signed that extension last Tuesday, an off day that followed back-to-back games against a pair of Western Conference bigwigs from Chicago and Los Angeles. He had charged up five checks in each of those contests while playing several shifts with captain and blue-line elder statesman Zdeno Chara.
When the Bruins returned to an extramural engagement in Philadelphia on Saturday, it was more of the same from the third-year professional. He again led Boston with five hits and added four blocked shots and a takeaway amidst a 6-1 romp over the com ...
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Kevan Miller Justifying Promotion and Contract Extension with Boston Bruins
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