MONTREAL — The Canadiens took their warm-up tonight at the Bell Centre without forward Benoit Pouliot, but all 18 regular skaters for the Bruins were on the ice along with spare defenseman Shane Hnidy.
No extra forwards warmed up for the Bruins as they prepared for Game 4 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with Montreal.
Here are the lines and D pairs as per the warm-up:
Lucic-Krejci-Horton
Marchand-Bergeron-Recchi
Kelly-Peverley-Ryder
Paille-Campbell-Thornton
Chara-Seidenberg
Kaberle-McQuaid
Ference-Boychuk
Jeff Halpern looks ready to replace Pouliot for the Habs.
Published By mattk Thu. April 21, 2011 6:41 pm EDT
Well, I can admit when I’m wrong….there are some who said Ryder may show up in the playoffs and they were right ( I’m not one of them). 1st goal was a flat out awesome shot by Ryder, I will keep quiet on the Seguin talk going foreward.
Ryder is definitely meant to be on the 1st or 2nd line. He’s not a gritty or defensive guy at all. In the first 3 seasons with Montreal, he scored 100 goals on the top lines. In his last horrible year with Montreal, he was on the last 2 lines and couldn’t do anything.
If he’s still good enough, put him on your first 2 lines. If he isn’t, ship him to the minors already.
Maybe Ryder would do better on the 2nd line
Predictions, MK? Go out on a limb and let us know what you think the final score will be for this game.