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Originally Posted by dissentowner
By what a lot of posters are saying is despite him apologizing to the victim and family and then being told he cannot have any more contact with the family and not breaking that order he is actually not remorseful.
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Lets recall some facts:
- Miller issued two apologies to the family. A court-ordered apology and then a Snapchat apology years afterward. There's hardly any sincerity in either of those ways of apologizing.
- The judge went on record to say that he didn't see any indication that Miller was remorseful about bullying Crothers from age 8-14
- The Crothers family is on record saying that they have forgiven Miller's co-bully, but not Miller due to the lack of remorse
- Miller was slated to be a late-1st rounder or second round pick...he fell in the draft because almost all NHL teams had him on their DND lists due to how he addressed the situation
In the past couple years, Miller has made no attempts to demonstrate that he's changed. He hasn't volunteered, donated, taken education related to racism or the developmentally disabled populace. He hasn't done any sort of actual reformation. If he was actually committed to apologizing, he could have found a more creative way to deliver a sincere apology without violating any restraining orders.
Based on what's been released to the public, it's a fair inference that Miller has such little remorse, he can't even be bothered to run a PR campaign on himself to prove otherwise
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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I don't think the league 'approves' signings like you imply - the league certainly isn't conducting a background check on every ELC. They register and track them, but it's on the teams to do due diligence.
Just like at the draft...the league didn't do anything to prevent the drafting of Mailloux.
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The league definitely does not check every deal. However, given the amount of press on the situation over the past couple years, Miller is a "high-profile" signing from a PR standpoint. I'd find it hard to believe that NHL senior leadership didn't get advance notice of this deal before it was approved and registered