Ryder/By S. Bradley
The much-maligned Michael Ryder is usually singled out most as the player that will lose his NHL roster spot if the Bruins decide to keep more than one of their heralded rookies.
While general manager Peter Chiarelli didn’t want to classify Ryder as an in-danger playerr today during a conference call, he didn’t exactly give the 30-year-old winger a ringing endorsement either.
Ryder/By S. Bradley
“But I’ll learn from the playoffs, the things that I did a little different, maybe try to do a little more in the regular season, like getting prepared and stuff like that. It’s a lot easier to get motivated for games in the playoffs than the regular season sometimes.”
The above words were spoken by Bruins winger Michael Ryder on break-up day 2010, after Boston completed its historic collapse against Philadelphia in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Ryder/By S. Bradley
BOLTON, Mass. — If Michael Ryder’s reduction in scoring from the ’08-09 season to last year was his first production dip, he might be more discouraged entering into this season.
But you’ll remember that the year before he joined the Bruins, Ryder had followed a 30-goal campaign with a 14-score season. So before today’s charity golf tournament, Ryder was brimming with confidence that he’ll erase the evil memories of his 18-goal campaign in black and gold this winter.
Ryder/By S. Bradley
We’re still waiting for Michael Ryder’s hot streak.
The veteran right winger, who was supposed to be a major part of the committee that would make up for the loss of Phil Kessel’s scoring touch, never scored a goal in consecutive games all season long en route to an 18-goal campaign in 82 games. (more…)
Ryder has to go/By S. Bradley
BOSTON – They are the two Bruins that most let the team down for the better part of the 2009-10 season.
Now Boston has to hang out the “for sale” sign and hope someone decides to bite. If Peter Chiarelli’s lucky, P.T. Barnum was right and his adage about suckers applies to NHL front offices as much as the rest of the world.
Where the Bruins might’ve gone during the regular season and then the playoffs had defenseman Dennis Wideman and right winger Michael Ryder played up to their potential and lofty salaries is anyone’s guess. All we know is that both were utter failures for too long and it cost Boston a chance at a higher seed and then a chance to avoid an historic collapse. (more…)
Ryder
There are so many reasons to be leery of head coach Claude Julien’s apparent decision to place Michael Ryder on Marc Savard’s right wing as the star center makes his return to the Bruins’ lineup after a Grade 2 concussion.
While nothing is written in stone with Julien’s line formations, he skated Ryder next to Savard for two straight practices, including today, while swapping out Vladimir Sobotka for Daniel Paille on the left flank from one day to the next.
The Bruins signed Ryder in July 2008 with the initial attention of him providing the set-up sensation Savard with a perennial puck-burier. That didn’t quite work out, so by putting those two back together to start the Eastern Conference semifinal series with Philadelphia, Julien is taking a bit of a risk. (more…)
Ryder
It’s gone almost as easy as rebooting a computer.
After a regular season that could politely be described as ineffective, Bruins winger Michael Ryder has truly reset his two-way play and retreated all the way back to last spring to become one of Boston’s most dangerous forwards during the first four games of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with Buffalo. (more…)
Ryder
Maybe two of the Bruins’ streakiest performers (and two of the most inconsistent players in the league) are heating up at just the right time.
Michael Ryder snapped a 12-game scoreless drought with two goals, including a rare power-play strike, and Marco Sturm scored for the first time in 15 in Boston’s 4-3 shootout road win over Washington today. (more…)
Ryder
One step away from the press box?
Bruins forward Michael Ryder knows that’s where he just might be now that he has scored just one goal in the team’s last 18 games and practiced in a brick-colored jersey typically reserved for the club’s fourth line Friday morning at Ristuccia Arena.
Krejci's playing without linemates.
BOSTON — For the last week everyone’s been marveling at how center David Krejci has been putting up points despite the major slumps of his regular wingers Blake Wheeler and Michael Ryder.
Well during the Bruins’ inexcusable 1-0 loss to lowly Florida at TD Garden tonight, Krejci worked another magic trick. He fired five shots on net, while his linemates managed to go shot-less.While there might’ve been other Bruins that didn’t pull their weight in this preposterous defeat, Wheeler and Ryder stuck out the most because of their role on the team as top-six forwards and the depth of their struggles. (more…)
Ryder
BOSTON — While some could argue that rookie Brad Marchand or journeyman Trent Whitfield might be a better option in the Bruins’ lineup right now, head coach Claude Julien is sticking by winger Michael Ryder.
The veteran, who has scored just one goal in 17 games, is expected to be in his usual spot on right wing with center David Krejci and left winger Blake Wheeler tonight at TD Garden against Florida. Julien thinks he saw enough from Ryder in Tuesday night’s win at New Jersey to be encouraged about the forward’s potential production. (more…)
Ryder
Boston Bruins forward Michael Ryder used last season as a platform to disprove the theories emanating from his former team in Montreal that he was an unmotivated, one-dimensional player. Ryder made his case loud and clear with a 27-goal regular season and five more scores in the playoffs. (more…)
Ryder
The experts, myself included, scoffed July 1 when the Boston Bruins not only decided to sign Montreal Canadiens castoff Michael Ryder, but threw a three-year, $12 million deal at the winger whose production had dropped from 30 goals to 14 in the course of just one year.
Well, consider Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli vindicated with that deal and the rest of us just measly crow-eaters. Sure, $4 million per season might be a little rich for someone of Ryder’s abilities in the salary-cap era, but the Bruins needed to add scoring — and that’s just what Ryder provided. While he didn’t reach that 30-goal plateau, he came close enough. And he proved to be a better player in his own end than most expected. Best of all, he proved the hated Habs wrong. (more…)
Ryder
During his second year of junior hockey with Gatineau of the QMJHL, Boston Bruins center David Krejci lived with a teammate from Newfoundland.
From what he can recall, that arrangement worked out fine. Little did the Czech Republic native know that his interaction with a player from that province would get even better once he established himself in the NHL. Michael Ryder has proven to be the perfect fit on Krejci’s right wing this season, most recently during a five-game playoff run that’s featured Ryder piling up nine points (five goals) and Krejci registering six points (three goals).
“I think it’s just the fact that David is a pretty creative player and he likes to set up players,” said head coach Claude Julien today after the Bruins practiced in Wilmington, Mass. “And Michael’s a shooter and he likes to get out in the open and take those shots. At the same time, he’s also a guy that’s pretty strong along the boards protecting the puck and that kind of stuff. So I think the two of them complement each other very well.” (more…)
