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Ryley Miller

Canadian ice hockey defenceman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2024
Entity authorityQ16224266
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Ryley Miller (born September 24, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the Stony Plain Eagles of the Chinook Hockey League. Miller played the 2013-2014 season in the Czech Republic with SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč of the First National Hockey League.

Miller made his Czech Extraliga debut playing with HC Kometa Brno during the 2013–14 Czech Extraliga season. Miller is known for his tough game play style, oftentimes being penalized for his questionable hits, and notably an enforcer on his teams gathering many fighting major penalties throughout the course of a season.

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This entry incorporates text from Ryley Miller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.