Morning Skate: Is it time for the Bruins to regret giving up on Colin Miller?

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Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading while preparing for some late night Bruins hockey this week.

*So now Colin Miller is a top pairing D-man for the Vegas Golden Knights, and it sure looks like he’s effective at least from a fancy stats perspective. This was always the danger in making a talented young D-man like Miller available in the expansion draft, and instead protecting a limited stay-at-home guy like Kevan Miller. Is it okay to second guess the Bruins on this one? I definitely think so, but the Bruins also knew that McAvoy was going to be their top guy and that Brandon Carlo was going to be their top-4 shutdown guy with Miller as the perfect bottom pairing D-man. Could you have traded Carlo, kept Miller and then simply found a stay-at-home guy for the left side kind of line John Moore is now after signing him for five years? Sure they could have. That’s where the regret and the lament come into play after watching him blossom into a very effective player in Vegas.

*Elias Pettersson is the latest example of the NHL’s failure to protect their star players from concussion-type injuries.

*Lars Eller is kind of turning into a bit of a punk. He was the guy that celebrated in front of the Bruins bench on opening night causing a reaction from Brad Marchand, and now he’s talking smack about Toronto’s top players.

*The Rangers are at least in the “win” column now, but it still looks like they are a long way away from anything but a rebuild.

*It’s just a matter of time for Sidney Crosby to get going offensively after a slow start with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

*For something completely different: Could the Avengers 4 trailer be coming soon? I certainly hope so. I also still hope it’s called Avengers 4: End Game.

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