Hannah Miller (born February 16, 1996), also known by the Chinese name Mi Le (), is a

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professional

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player for

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of the

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(PWHL) and member of the Chinese national ice hockey team. Miller represented

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in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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Playing career

Miller played ice hockey in the Junior Women's Hockey League (JWHL) with the under-18 prep team of the Okanagan Hockey Academy, based in Penticton,

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, Canada, from 2012 to 2014.

College

Miller played

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with the

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program in the

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of the

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from the 2014–15 season to the 2017–18 season. As a junior in the 2016–17 season, she ranked sixth in the country with 0.92 assists per game and eleventh nationally with 1.33 points per game, tallying 15 goals and 33 assists for 48 points in 36 games, and was recognized as the ECAC Player of the Month on 2 February. She was selected as team captain for the 2017–18 season via player vote and, in her

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season, was the ECAC Player of the Week for October 11. Miller was named to the Second-Team All-ECAC Hockey in 2016–17 and 2017–18 and earned ECAC Hockey All-Academic honors in 2017–18.

Professional

After reaching out and expressing interest in playing with the China-based

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(CWHL) team, Miller was drafted in the third round, fifteenth overall in the

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by the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays. She signed with the team for the

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and finished her first professional ice hockey season tied with

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for second on the team with 10 goals and ranked fifth with 15 points in 20 games. Following the collapse of the CWHL in 2019, Miller remained with the KRS Vanke Rays as they became the first non-Russian team to join the

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(ZhHL). In the 2019–20 ZhHL season, she scored 12 goals and 13 assists for 25 points in 24 games, ranking second on the team for goals and fourth for assists, and won the 2020 Russian Championship. Miller was drafted in the 13th round, 74th overall, by

in the

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. She signed a one-year contract in November 2023. During the 2023–24 season, she recorded seven goals and seven assists in 23 regular season games and one goal and two assists in five games during the

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. On June 21, 2024, she signed a one-year contract extension with Toronto.

International play

As a junior player with the Canadian national under-18 team, Miller participated in the

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and

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, winning a gold medal at both. At the 2013 tournament, she represented Canada alongside future Chinese national team teammate Kimberly Newell on a roster that also included future Canadian senior national team players Emily Clark,

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, and Sarah Potomak, among others. Miller was officially named to the Chinese women's national team roster for the women's ice hockey tournament at the

on 28 January 2022. She scored China's first goal of the tournament, in the opening game of the preliminary round against the .

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Hannah 1996 births Living people Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in China Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Canadian women's ice hockey forwards Djurgårdens IF Hockey (women) players Ice hockey people from North Vancouver Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Naturalized citizens of the People's Republic of China Naturalised ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players for China PWHL Toronto players Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays players St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey players