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Habs Inside/Out — The new Montreal Juniors have lost their marquee attraction. Angelo Esposito has signed a multi-year contract with the Atlanta Thrashers. • Ryan Miller has signed a five-year extension in Buffalo. There had been speculation the Michigan homeboy would join the Red Wings as a UFA next summer. •  •  • "Basically, it came down to development," Max Pacioretty told The Gazette's Pat Hickey from his home in New Canaan, Conn. yesterday. "I think I developed in this past year better than I  ever have before. It really helped me improve as a player and get to  where I want to be as an NHL player ...

Ryan Miller: Clearly unaware he's destined to be a Red Wing
Puck Daddy — You know, this five-year contract extension for Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller is really going to make his predestined move between the pipes for the Detroit Red Wings next summer quite difficult. I'm not quite sure I'm ready to live in a world bereft of constant chatter about Miller going to Detroit and Vinny Lecavalier centering for the Canadiens. It almost seems ... unnatural. TSN has the deal at five years for $31.25 million, which is less than what Henrik Lundqvist makes but more than the majority of his Eastern Conference peers pull in. More importantly, it gives the ...

Take that Detroit!..Miller signs with Buffalo
The Peerless Prognosticator — That sound you might have heard early this afternoon was the collective groan of fans of Red Wings Nation, which might have been expecting a native son to return home. But Ryan Miller has re-signed with the Buffalo Sabres...five years, $6.25 million per. ...

Sabres sign Ryan Miller to five-year contract extension
IllegalCurve.com — From TSN: The Buffalo Sabres re-signed goaltender Ryan Miller to a five-year, $31.25 million contract extension on Friday. Entering the final year of his current contract this season, Miller will now remain the club's franchise netminder through the 2013-2014 season. Read the entire article here. No surprise here. As I said just under two weeks ago, the speculation that he was headed to Detroit was overblown. Now that he is entrenched as the number one ...

We’re not pryin’ Ryan
In The Cheap Seats — Well, that was fun wall it lasted. The Super Secret plan to bring goaltender Ryan Miller to Denver next summer to hang with his buddy John-Michael Liles and to, you know, be a kick-ass goalie for us has been foiled. The Sabres have locked up Miller through the 2013-2014 season. With Miller out of the way, that seems to make Nikolai Khabibulin as the biggest goalie name on the UFA market next summer. Other notables: Nik Backstrom, Manny Fernandez, Fredrik Norrena, Mathieu Garon, Martin Gerber, Martin Biron and Manny Legace. I’m sure some of these guys will be extended by then, but as of now it does seem like the Avs will have more ...