Saying that last season was a tough one to swallow for Rob Miller would be an understatement.
After the New Hampshire Freeze, the team Miller was supposed to coach, folded, the 30-year-old came out of retirement to play defense for the Brooklyn Aces. Just when things looked to be going his way, Miller suffered a broken hand after a vicious slash by Hudson Valley Bears forward Tom Westfall.
Over the next two and a half months, Miller served as the Aces assistant coach, before coming back to the team for their playoff push. In spite of playing some of the best hockey of his pro career during that stretch and earned player of the week honors for the last week of the season. The team couldn’t hold off the surging Jersey Rockhoppers in spite of having their hard-nosed captain back however and lost an EPHL championship that many felt they owned since the first week of the season.
