Goaltender Ryan Miller is inviting TSN analyst Ray Ferraro to come and chat after continuing to express frustration over equipment size comments.
The back-and-forth of words started last season when Ferraro noted Miller wore the same pant size as Carey Price despite a nearly 50-pound weight difference. Ferraro claimed Miller wore the equipment because “it’s about their goals against average.” Miller subsequently blamed Ferraro for making him the talking point of oversized equipment.
Miller, in a conversation with Josh Cooper of Puck Daddy, said he doesn’t understand why Ferraro targeted him and offered to have a conversation with the former Atlanta Thrasher.
“They started using my photo because Ray Ferraro started saying my name to correlate with pants and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Miller said. “Ray’s never been in the locker room. He’s never seen me in person. I’ve never spoken to him. He’s going off of being a fan, fanboy so if he wants to come in the locker room and have a chat, I’m here every day. We have an open locker room and he can walk in and have a discussion, but he seems to just want to take shots from the outside about something he doesn’t know anything about other than visual.”
Ferraro responded, telling Cooper that Miller was being “sensitive” about being named and said equipment sizes are “flat out ridiculous.” The sideline reporter did say he understood why Miller was upset and said he would be to if he was the person getting called out.
The argument is a tough one because both parties are right. Equipment size on goalies is too big and Ferraro recognized Miller wearing oversized pants and rightly pointed it out. On the other side, Miller’s equipment has been approved by the league, so he has every right to wear it. Until the NHL changes goalie equipment size, Ferraro can call it out for being overly bulky, but Miller can defend himself by showing him the rule book.
