Miller's a super weird player. He is like Jekyll and Hyde depending on whether he's playing center or wing. For whatever reason, as soon as he's in the middle he cannot figure out what he's supposed to be doing in his own end - it seems like a matter of simplifying his responsibilities when he's on the wall and he can do them more or less competently.
But there is a difference between being defensively competent and prone to gaffes - he's definitely prone to gaffes. You don't necessarily stand out if you leave a gap in the neutral zone and allow an easy zone entry or if you're late turning to keep your check from driving to the net, but if you lazily flip a backhand pass onto the stick of a guy on the other team leading directly to a 2 on 1, it's obvious. Gaffes are what stand out and how you get a bad reputation... Miller compounds these by giving the puck away and not even trying to stop the ensuing rush as he slowly sulks off to the bench for a change.
Then you add to that the whole "power play specialist" thing he has going on this year and it's a whole lot of no good. What they should probably do is put him back on Pettersson's LW taking faceoffs for him, since Pettersson is bad at those.
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