Thursday: Both players have cleared waivers according to Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic.
Wednesday: The Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers have placed Brett Ritchie and Chris Stewart on waivers respectively, according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet.
Ritchie, 26, hasn’t been a good fit for the Bruins this season after signing a one-year, $1MM deal in the offseason. Unqualified by the Dallas Stars, the big-bodied forward was a free agent looking for a landing spot and the Bruins needed some secondary scoring and size on the wings. That scoring has been nowhere to be found when it comes to Ritchie, who has just two goals and six points in 27 games while bouncing all over the lineup. For a team expected to contend for a Stanley Cup, his play simply hasn’t been good enough.
Stewart meanwhile is beginning to look like a failed experiment of his own. After spending last season in the EIHL with the Nottingham Panthers, the veteran forward returned to the NHL and signed a one-year $750K contract with the Flyers in order to give them a little more physicality at the bottom of the lineup. He’ll likely play tonight for the team, but with just one point in 15 games there’s not a ton Stewart is providing the club at this point.
Like many of the names that grace waivers during the season, Ritchie and Stewart may find themselves unclaimed tomorrow and headed for the minor leagues. That is of course unless another team wants to add some size and will take a chance on one or the other. Both cap hits can be completely buried in the AHL.
the Stewart experiment worked about as well as couldve been expected.
I really hope the B’s use that spot for some toughness because this is NOT the the team I grew up watching and loving
I want some of the big bad bruins that won us the cup in 2011
I’m sensing a Wayne Simmons’s trade on the horizon.
I would love that
Simmonds’s contract will prevent any trade to the Bruins. No cap space and he’s not the 2012-2013 version of himself
You know they can trade contracts to make the cap work out
@mcase7187 – That’s a helluva lot of heavy lifting for just a 4th-liner. Usually the kind of thing you see for a big-time difference maker (top F or D or G). Not impossible, mind you, but…
Ryan Reaves for John Moore
Ooooh! Ryan Reaves for John Moore? Yes please!