'I can't tell you that he'll ever be eligible to come into the NHL,' commissioner Gary Bettman said of Boston Bruins signee Mitchell Miller, who bullied a Black classmate with developmental disabilities when he was 14.
. Meyer-Crothers also told the newspaper that Miller had used racial slurs around him.
"He's not coming into the NHL, he's not eligible at this point to come into the NHL. I can't tell you that he'll ever be eligible to come into the NHL," Bettman said."If, in fact, at some point they think they want him to play in the NHL, and I'm not sure that they're anywhere close to that point, we are going to have to clear him and his eligibility and it'll be based on all the information that we get firsthand at the time.
In addition to the Coyotes stepping away from him, the University of North Dakota cut Miller.
Sweeney said Miller would be placed"in community programs so he continues to educate himself and others about what being disrespectful does for you and how you continue to carry that for the rest of your life." The commissioner has talked to Bruins president Cam Neely about Miller since learning about the signing. The defenseman has reported to Providence of the American Hockey League.
"The answer is they were free to sign him to play somewhere else, that's another league's issue, but nobody should think at this point he is or may ever be NHL eligible," Bettman said. "And the Bruins understand that now."
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