{"id":65244,"date":"2025-06-07T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/65244\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:23:20","slug":"ryan-millers-final-game-as-buffalo-sabres-goalie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/65244\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Miller\u2019s final game as Buffalo Sabres goalie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, Ryan Miller had his \u201cPatrick Roy\u201d moment,<\/a> absorbing boos from the fans and then responding with a mocking wave to the crowd.<\/p>\n

With one year left on his contract, a rebuilding team and without question being one of the more desirable goaltending options for any team that needs one, it felt like the end of a long-term relationship between Miller and the city.<\/p>\n

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This Friday, Miller will be between the pipes when the Sabres close out their disappointing season at home against the New York Islanders. It could be the last time Sabres fans see him in a Buffalo sweater \u2013 his 500th game with the franchise.<\/p>\n

He told Sabres Edge he\u2019s just going to try and enjoy the moment \u2026 and that he doesn\u2019t have any ill will towards the fans:<\/a><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not mad at the fans,” he said. “It\u2019s heat of the moment. You get emotional.<\/p>\n

“Some people were giving me some grief, and I just picked my hand up like, \u2018OK, I hear ya.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t a screw you. It wasn\u2019t a, \u2018I hate you guys.\u2019 It was, \u2018You know, I hear ya. Enough. I get it. Just let me try and do what I\u2019ve got to do.\u2019<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve done more than my fair share to go out and prove that I\u2019m part of this community and give back as much as I can. We don\u2019t even talk about all the stuff I try and do to make this feel more like my second home. That\u2019s where I\u2019m going to leave it. I care about the people here. If they\u2019re frustrated with the way we\u2019re playing, I can acknowledge it and we can move on.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the truth: Miller, unlike teammate Steve Ott, has accepted the fans\u2019 reactions at games, to the point where he believes the Sabres earned their boos. His honesty and candor have been both an asset and a distraction for Buffalo over the years \u2013 one can only have so many Emo-pressers before the vibe the fans catch is unmistakably negative.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Campbell of Sabres Noise believes Miller\u2019s earned the right to have a proper send-off from the fans:<\/a><\/p>\n

After Miller\u2019s last home game he deserves a chance to go out there again and put on a better performance. See if he can get a win and give the Sabres\u2019 faithful a proper salute, let Miller have his moment with the fans. Let Ryan Miller go out on top and leave the Sabres\u2019 faithful with happy memories.<\/p>\n

Is this the end? As Miller told the Buffalo News: “There\u2019s been a lot of \u2018could be last game as a Sabre\u2019 the last few years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Friday, Ryan Miller had his \u201cPatrick Roy\u201d moment, absorbing boos from the fans and then responding with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,4,2278,1108,13313,4293],"class_list":{"0":"post-65244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-buffalosabres","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-ryan-miller","14":"tag-sabres","15":"tag-sabres-edge","16":"tag-the-sabres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114643245751528817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}