Michael Ryder
Michael Ryder was born in Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on March 31st, 1980 and is the Hockey Player. At the age of 44, Michael Ryder biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Michael Glen Wayne Ryder (born March 31, 1980) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.
He has also competed for the Montreal Canadiens, Dallas Stars, and the New Jersey Devils of National Hockey League. In 2011, with the Boston Bruins, he won the Stanley Cup for the first time.
Playing career
Ryder competed for the Hull Olympiques of the QMJHL.
Ryder was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, 8th round, 216th overall. Before signing with Montreal, he recruited hockey agent Thayne Campbell.
Ryder scored the winning goal on May 30, 2003, snapping the longest game in American Hockey League history. The Hamilton Bulldogs beat the Houston Aeros 2–1 in Game 2 of the Calder Cup Finals after his goal at 14:56 of the fourth overtime session.
He appeared in the NHL YoungStars Game from 2003-2004. For February 2004, he was dubbed the NHL Rookie of the Month. He finished the season as the most outstanding rookies in points, powerplay points, shots, and goals. He played for Leksands IF of Sweden's second division of Swedish hockey from 2004-05. Since being locked out, he scored 30 goals in back-to-back seasons.
In the 2nd period against the Toronto Maple Leafs, he scored a natural hat-trick, when the Canadiens were down 3-1. The Leafs, Canadiens, and the New York Islanders were competing for the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference this season, and it would determine which team would make it to the last playoff position. Despite Ryder's efforts, the Canadiens lost the game 6–5.
On February 19, 2008, the Canadiens came back from another outstanding showing by Ryder in another historic comeback against the New York Rangers. After the Canadiens were trailing by a score of 5–0, Ryder scored two goals and contributed to a 6–5 victory. This was the only time the Canadiens had won when trailing 5–0 in the team's 99-year history. Ryder was first credited with a hat trick, but his last goal was later changed after it was determined that his shot went off teammate Mark St. Stuff's leg before hitting the back of the net.
Ryder's deal came to an end on June 30, 2008, and the Canadiens did not re-sign him due in large part to his scoring only 14 goals and 17 assists for 31 points, the lowest totals of his career. He appeared in only 4 of Montreal's 12 playoff games.
Ryder agreed to a three-year deal with the Boston Bruins worth about $4 million per season on July 1, 2008. According to Claude Julien, the Bruins coach at the time, part of the reason Ryder signed with Boston was that he has been playing for nearly six seasons (three in junior hockey, one in the AHL, and two with the Canadiens).
In Boston's season opener against the Colorado Avalanche, Ryder scored his first goal in a Bruins uniform on October 9, 2008, a 5-4 victory. The target was ostensibly Ryder's 100th career goal. In his first season with Boston, he scored 27 goals in his first season with the Bruins, who ranked first overall in the Eastern Conference. The eighth seeded Montreal Canadiens, Ryder's former club, was competing in their first round matchup. The Bruins made quick work of Montreal by beating them in four straight games, with He scored four goals in the series. During the Bruins' seven game Conference semi-finals loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, Ryder was held to just one goal.
When the Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals on June 15, 2011, Ryder captured his first and only Stanley Cup. Ryder became the second native of Newfoundland and Labrador to win a Stanley Cup championship after Daniel Cleary of Harbour Grace, who made the feat with the Detroit Red Wings in 2008. When winning it in 2022, Alex Newhook of the Colorado Avalanche joined them.
On July 1, 2011, Ryder announced his two-year, $7 million contract with the Dallas Stars.
Ryder scored his career-high 35th goal during the Dallas Stars' 3-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on March 28th, 2012.
Ryder was traded back to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for Erik Cole during his second year with the Stars in the lockout shortened 2012–2013 season.
Ryder has signed a two-year, $7 million contract with the New Jersey Devils on July 5, 2013. Ryder went from wearing a jacket 73 to 17 during his time with the club as a result of Lou Lamoriello's policy against numbers above 40.
Ryder dropped out of the second half of the season after getting off to a promising start in the 2013-14 season with 16 goals, with only 2 goals after January 11, 2014.
At the Honda Center in Anaheim, January 16, 2015 Ryder played in his 800th NHL game.
Ryder's 237 goals and 484 total points in the NHL are career records for players born in Newfoundland and Labrador, making him the province's most popular hockey player ever.
Michael Ryder was inducted into the Hockey NL Hall of Fame on June 10, 2017.