ANAHEIM — There will come a time when the Ducks see how much game Ryan Miller has left in him, and the accomplished goalie wants to start showing them that there is plenty.

It will happen eventually. It won’t be now.

A wrist injury has postponed Miller’s official Ducks debut. His appearances with them have been limited to one exhibition contest against Arizona, when he got through the 60 minutes with four goals allowed and pocketed a win over the Coyotes.

That was hardly the important story. An effort to push himself through an ailment that had been bothering him backfired instead and it kept him off the ice, ending his preseason and pushing back any chance to dress for the Ducks’ first few games.

“Even when I was trying to push through it, it was putting me in not a good place,” Miller said Thursday after a tidy practice at Honda Center. “What we decided to do was kind of let things settle down. Try to avoid shots in that general area for about 10 to 14 days.

“So you got to work back into it, that timing. I want to be healthy and I also don’t want to go out there and have a really big hitch in my game. (Or) my timing’s not good because I’ve been shying away from something.”

There is that good place where Miller feels he is at now and it has allowed him to resume taking shots in recent workouts as he traded off with current healthy backup Reto Berra. He’s found a way to protect the wrist as it heals.

Miller did not accompany the Ducks to Colorado and it is unlikely that he will be ready to dress for Sunday’s home game against Buffalo, his original team and the one where he starred for a decade and won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goalie in 2010.

But his debut might not be too far off. John Gibson has had the net since the opener and figures to keep it as the Ducks have extra days off next week and won’t play on consecutive nights until the end of a four-game trip to the east coast. It will give Miller more time to heal without pressure to rest Gibson.

A logical date to target could be Oct. 29 at Carolina after the Ducks play at Tampa Bay the night before. Miller’s availability might or might not be sooner but he likes the current direction of his recovery.

“As long as we stay kind of on this pace, I imagine I’ll be more available very soon,” he said.

In hindsight, Miller thinks more patience exhibited then might have made him ready to go now. But, as he said, “sometimes that’s the exploratory process, how far can you go with it.” He’s glad to be back among his teammates on a regular basis but knows dealing with longer-term injuries can be a lonely process.

Past experiences are what he leans on in a time like this.

“It’s not easy,” he said. “You play hockey long enough, you go through it. I’ve gone through my share of injuries and had to come back and contribute. Kind of trying to think back to my training when I was working on stuff through my thumb injury when I was first entering the league.

“Coming off that injury, I had good energy and I was able to put together a good run. We had a nice finish to the season because I was able to put the training time in and the focus in. It’s a little different animal now. It’s not as extreme but you take those same lessons.”

KASE SHELVED

Ondrej Kase was put on injured reserve after the winger suffered an apparent head injury Monday night in a loss to Calgary.

The move was made retroactive to Tuesday, which means Kase will miss a minimum of two more contests. Kase left Monday’s game in the latter stages of the first period after he turned around in the offensive zone and was hit in nasal area by Calgary defenseman Dougie Hamilton. He has a goal and an assist in three games.

“This is a physical game,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. “He’s a guy that has got to protect himself in those situations. It’s unfortunate but now somebody else gets an opportunity to play ahead.”

Kase does have a concussion history, having suffered one during the 2015-16 season with the AHL’s San Diego Gulls that limited him to just 25 games played.