The Dallas Stars have several big chores, and a single king-sized one, to accomplish during the 2022-23 offseason. They’ve made progress of a sort on that last to-do item by signing right-handed defenseman Colin Miller to a two-year contract.
The 29-year-old blueliner, most recently of the Buffalo Sabres, is pegged as a puck-moving defenseman but comes with a troubling injury history (he missed six weeks early this year after surgery for an upper-body issue). Like many Stars, he also struggled with COVID-19 last season.
His player report card from our sister site, Die By The Blade, sketches a profile of a serviceable player with a decidedly lackluster recent history:
Miller was the second-oldest defenseman on the Sabres this season, behind only the 30-year-old Mark Pysyk.