It’s been about 20 months since Ryan Miller stood at the lectern in First Niagara Center taking questions from the media.
When Miller was last in Buffalo, he was saying goodbye as he and Steve Ott were traded to St. Louis in March 2014.
He always thought he’d be back to visit the place he called home for the better part of his first 12 professional hockey seasons. But life got in the way during the summer and a knee injury kept him away last season.
So when Miller returned to Buffalo with the Vancouver Canucks in advance of Saturday afternoon’s game at First Niagara Center, he seemed slightly blown away by the changes to the downtown landscape.