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From 2021:

Miller knows that anything he says will be viewed as nothing more than an attempt to resurrect his hockey career, which was put on ice when the Coyotes renounced his draft rights on Oct. 29, and the University of North Dakota kicked him off of its team a day later.

He won’t argue with any of those opinions.

“I totally understand why people are mad at me,” Miller said in his first public comments since the 2020 NHL Draft in early October. “It obviously was wrong, what I did, and I said what I said to Isaiah. I’ll own up to everything I did. I’m not going to try to defend myself. I was definitely wrong. I don’t want it to define my life or my hockey career, but I take all ownership of what I did.

“This isn’t about saving my career. Obviously, I want to play hockey. It’s my dream, but I want to let everyone know that I made a mistake and how sincere and sorry I am that I affected their family and their lives. I got dropped by Arizona and North Dakota, but it’s not about saving my career. It’s letting people know what I did was wrong. Again, I take all ownership of what I did and I’m not going to defend myself on all of that stuff. I’ve just got to take it, but I have matured since eighth grade.”

The central question surrounding Miller is this: Is he a bad kid whose reprehensible behavior got him caught, or is he a kid who learned a really hard lesson when he was 14; one that will make him a better person? Nobody can answer that question better than Miller. If he wants to find a path forward, it’s up to him to prove he is not that kid from five years ago.

He said he knows what he needs to do to prove it to a chorus of doubters.

“At this point, I think the debt-to-society part is like 10 times more important than my hockey career,” he said. “Hockey would be a reward if I could ever have a second chance to have that back in my life, but I want to give back to the community.”

Miller believes that he has taken several steps toward repaying his debt, beginning with when he apologized to Meyer-Crothers in the immediate aftermath of the incident. The apology was court-mandated, but it was a personal apology, and public records of Miller’s expulsion hearing and recommendation, obtained by azcoyotesinsider.com, show that the apology was read both to Meyer-Crothers, and to school officials and the school board. The apology was also sent to the Meyer-Crothers family.

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The court ruling prohibited Miller from having any further contact with Meyer-Crothers, and he said he abided by that ruling. More recently, when the new reports surfaced, he said he tried to add Isaiah as a friend on Snapchat, but “but I doubt he wants to add me back.

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If he were to speak to Isaiah Meyer-Crothers again, here is what Miller said he would like to say.

“I would definitely apologize again; just tell him how sincere I am and how sorry I am that it affected his life,” he said.

https://azcoyotesinsider.substack.co...esses-his-past