VANCOUVER — Please don’t take this the wrong way, Vancouver, but Ryan Miller sees similarities between you and Buffalo.
Sure, and Detroit is just like Vancouver, too, because people live here and people once lived in Detroit.
What the Vancouver Canucks’ Miller sees is his National Hockey League team evolving and building an identity the way the Buffalo Sabres did during the early years of the goaltender’s nine seasons in upstate New York.
Miller reflected on this before travelling Thursday with the Canucks to Buffalo, where he will finally play Saturday for the first time since leaving the Sabres in a March 2014 trade to the St.