NHL stops Boston's bully signing: "Can't play"

- At the moment he is not qualified to play in the NHL, says Bettman via a reporter on the site The Athletic.

- I don't know if he ever will be.

Bettman says a lot of things need to be cleared up, that he needs to know more than he does at this point in order to consider whether Mitchell Miller can be a player for the NHL in the future.

In the 2020 NHL Draft, Arizona chose to take Mitchell Miller, despite the player's dark past.

The talent's background became something that the newspaper Arizona Central looked into, and then published texts about his previous conviction in juvenile court in Ohio after bullying a classmate with a disability.

The NHL club then chose to release the rights to Miller and then he was also stopped from his studies at the University of North Dakota.

Over two years later, Mitchell Miller signed a new NHL contract, this time with the Boston Bruins, which spanned three years and would give him SEK 31 million.

Then the NHL and commissioner Gary Bettman put their foot down, writes TSN.

- We were never consulted before the Bruins chose to sign a contract with him, he says.