The Arizona Coyotes on Thursday renounced the rights to Mitchell Miller, their first draft pick of this month's NHL Draft, following an Arizona Republic examination into Miller's harassment of a developmentally disabled African-American classmate four years ago.
The selection of Miller, 18 and now playing hockey at the University of North Dakota, was widely criticized after the Republic on Monday detailed Miller's bullying and racist taunting of Isaiah Meyer-Crothers when the two were 14 years old in Sylvania, Ohio.
Meyer-Crothers, who now lives in Detroit, said Thursday he took no joy in seeing Miller cut.