Ryan Miller was the most valuable player at the Olympic tournament, where he won a silver medal for Team USA. He's one of the best hockey players America has ever produced. He's making $6.25 million this year for the NHL's Buffalo Sabres. His team is in first place. He's dating an actress. And if you asked him, he'd probably be happier if we shut up right now. "What can I say?" Mr. Miller said during an interview on a press tour Monday, where he said all the attention has been a bit surreal. "I'm from the Midwest, and everything was always about keeping a low profile." Here's one of the most persistent quirks of hockey: To be great, a team needs a superhuman goaltender with freakish reflexes. But to be a superhuman goaltender, it helps to be the kind of person who's comfortable working behind a mask while loaded down with 50 pounds of padding. Tending goal not only means taking the occasional hard rubber disc to the face at 100 miles per hour. It also means subjecting yourself to almost certain failure most nights.[Read more...]