Bruins Acquire Drew Stafford

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SoSH's Doug Neidermeyer
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He actually sounds a little bit like Hayes, maybe with a slightly better shot. That's scary, but still worth the flyer.
Isn't Hayes supposed to be a "tough guy" though? Stafford has none of that in his game.

And comparing Stafford to Ryder is tremendously unfair to Ryder. Ryder was a pretty great goal scorer. Stafford comes no where near his production year by year, and is much less of a threat to create his own offense.
 

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Ryder: 0.29 goals per game; 0.60 points per game
Stafford: 0.24 goals per game; 0.55 points per game

Ryder is better, but it is close and they have a similar style. Ryder had 5 20+ goal seasons in his career, Stafford has 4. The difference is Ryder typically skipped the 20 goal mark and was either 30+ or under 20. Stafford is pretty consistently between 18-20 goals a year.

Anyways, they are both scoring, shoot-first wingers that don't do much else. That's more what I was getting at. I was trying to think of Bruins players from the past.
 

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Ryder: 0.29 goals per game; 0.60 points per game
Stafford: 0.24 goals per game; 0.55 points per game

Ryder is better, but it is close and they have a similar style. Ryder had 5 20+ goal seasons in his career, Stafford has 4. The difference is Ryder typically skipped the 20 goal mark and was either 30+ or under 20. Stafford is pretty consistently between 18-20 goals a year.

Anyways, they are both scoring, shoot-first wingers that don't do much else. That's more what I was getting at. I was trying to think of Bruins players from the past.
I don't know that a shoot-first winger will work well on the other side of Vatrano, but it gives them some flexibility and if Hayes sucks he can slide into his spot pretty easily.
 

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Ryder: 0.29 goals per game; 0.60 points per game
Stafford: 0.24 goals per game; 0.55 points per game

Ryder is better, but it is close and they have a similar style. Ryder had 5 20+ goal seasons in his career, Stafford has 4. The difference is Ryder typically skipped the 20 goal mark and was either 30+ or under 20. Stafford is pretty consistently between 18-20 goals a year.

Anyways, they are both scoring, shoot-first wingers that don't do much else. That's more what I was getting at. I was trying to think of Bruins players from the past.
That includes the end of Ryders career when he wasn't nearly as effective as a player anymore.

Looking at their 23-31 y/o seasons (Stafford is 31 this year):

Ryder - 24.65 goals per season. 49.5 points.
Stafford -16.66 goals per season 36.3 points.

8 goals a season difference during the same age/span of career. 13 points difference.

Or if we're doing it by game:
Ryder .31 GPG, .63 PPG
Stafford .24 GPG, .54 PPG
 
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Stafford played well in his 1st game and was an upgrade on the 3rd line.