Ryan sees future with Sens

[Jasmine]

Ryan will be heading into the final year of his contract next season, and while he hasn't given much thought to his status he said he would be happy to stay in Ottawa.

"I love it here, we (Ryan and fiancee Danielle Rhodes) love it here more importantly," said Ryan. "It's been a great change for us. When the time comes if that's the route (general manager Bryan Murray) wants to go to sit down and have conversations we'll certainly do that."

Ryan went as far as saying that he could even see himself having a long future with Ottawa.


http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=448220

[Victor]

Re: Ryan sees future with Sens

Gotta take these media statements with a grain of salt but nevertheless, it's encouraging.

[Matt the Aussie]

Re: Ryan sees future with Sens

Better than him NOT saying these things I guess...

[Josh]

Re: Ryan sees future with Sens

Better than him NOT saying these things I guess...

Exactly. He could have just stayed mum, left it at "I haven't really thought about it yet." Good to hear his fiancee likes the city.

[Stylizer]

Re: Ryan sees future with Sens

I'm thinking he is not going to re-sign.

[Alfie11]

Re: Ryan sees future with Sens

I'm pretty confident he'll sign and I'm pretty confident it will happen this summer.

[Matt the Aussie]

Re: Ryan sees future with Sens

I'm pretty confident he'll sign and I'm pretty confident it will happen this summer.

And how does Eugene's "I'm poor" schtick factor into that?

[Alfie11]

Re: Ryan sees future with Sens

I'm pretty confident he'll sign and I'm pretty confident it will happen this summer.

And how does Eugene's "I'm poor" schtick factor into that?

The way I look at it, Melnyk has to spend money on some guys. Bobby Ryan would be ~7M less he'd have to fork out to other guys every year.

The only problem would be that Ryan sees the team as a budget team and doesn't want to stick around. I'm confident enough that he will want to stick around, though.