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The news that Bobby Ryan is undergoing season-ending surgery did not come as a complete surprise. Nike Air Max 98 Sverige . Earlier this week, head coach Paul MacLean confirmed that Ryan had been dealing with a nagging injury since November – our first tangible clue that the winger has not been 100 per cent healthy all season. But for the past few weeks, the whispers had been growing louder and louder that Ryan was playing hurt. When the club returned to practice after the Olympic break, the winger took a couple of maintenance days that raised a few eyebrows. Now that the club has confirmed he was playing for the past four months with a sports hernia injury, it forces us to reassess our opinion of Ryans first season in Ottawa. In a strange twist, every player involved in the massive Ducks-Senators trade from last summer suffered a significant injury this season. Jakob Silfverberg had a broken hand, Stefan Noesen tore the ACL in his knee and now Ryan is done with the sports hernia injury. (The Ducks may want to order some bubble wrap to protect their first round pick in the 2014 NHL Draft that they will receive from Ottawa). When he was famously left off the Team USA roster for the Olympics, many suggested that Ryan was crushed by the bad news and went into a prolonged slump. He scored just two goals in 12 games in the month of January and looked like a shadow of himself at times. Certainly, the Team USA snub hurt him on a personal level, but its rather obvious that the physical pain of a sports hernia injury was the bigger factor for his declining numbers. Ryans limited ice time was also a source of controversy in this market, as fans and media openly questioned MacLeans deployment of his No. 1 sniper. He was taken off a unit with Kyle Turris and Clarke MacArthur and was given third-line minutes instead. When the Sens were swept in Alberta earlier this month, Ryan played fewer than 15 minutes on each night – causing some to wonder aloud if there was a rift between star player and coach. In reality, the reduced ice time was likely the result of his nagging injury. In a statement to the media on Thursday, general manager Bryan Murray indicated that Ryan tried to play through the injury and doesnt appear to be concerned about how he was used by MacLean. "I know there were some times in games that he felt like he couldnt contribute very much but he stayed on the ice as required by the coaching staff and tried very hard to be a big factor for our team," Murray said. "I think he was and obviously we like that kind of person and want to treat him right in return." If you look at Ryans on-ice production from this season (time on ice to produce a point), you can see a significant drop-off once the calendar flipped to December: Month Time on ice/point October 20:32 November 16:17 December 24:42 January 33:10 February 46:40 March 41:47 Ryans struggles were a red flag for many Ottawa fans, who were concerned about his lack of productivity and compete level down the stretch. With a contract set to expire at the end of next season, there were more than a few fans who were suggesting it was time to move on from the 26-year-old winger. But now that we have a clear picture of Ryans health, its a little more accurate to say that his first season was not a complete disaster. The fact that he led this team in goal-scoring with 23 despite the injury is fairly impressive. Considering the recovery time from this injury is about six weeks, GM Bryan Murray says there is every reason to believe that Ryan will come into training camp next season ready to return to his 30-goal form. "Well, he certainly started very, very well. He shoots the puck awfully well, he scored some goals, his line obviously carried the team early on. He was a big part of that," Murray said. "I think after the hernia started to get aggravated a little bit, he seemed to shoot the puck a bit less. Overall, very happy and satisfied with his overall play and we know hell be a real contributor going forward." That last comment from the general manager seems like the one that carries the most weight moving into this summer. Nobody is certain if the Sens will lock up Ryan with a long-term extension in the coming months, but one thing is clear: this organization hasnt soured on him after a disappointing season in which he played hurt. Nike Air Max 720 Rabatt . 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Suh got in trouble for stepping on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers left leg twice, once with each foot. Suh also applied pressure and pushed off Rodgers unprotected leg with his left foot, violating unnecessary roughness rules, the league said.Suh, who will be reinstated next Monday, can appeal the suspension within three days. He can ask for an expedited appeal, which would be heard by Ted Cottrell, a hearing officer employed by the NFL and the players union.Suh did not speak with reporters at the Lions practice facility.Lions centre Dominic Raiola, coming off his own one-game ban for a similar incident, was enraged by the suspension.The play ... he wasnt even looking at (Rodgers). Raiola said. He was getting pushed back a little bit. It was ridiculous what Fox did right after it. It was crazy, watching it. I couldnt even listen to those guys after he did it.There is no way, at that point in the game, that he did something like that on purpose. No way.Added teammate Larry Warford: Its part of what has been happening around here. Obviously, theyre going to be stricter on us. That is just a fact of what happened a week before.Theyre obviously a lot stricter with our team, Warford continued, referring to the NFL. Its something we have to fight through. A little adversity. Well make it through.Suh is a repeat offender with a long list of fines and one previous suspension, for two games in 2011 for stepping on the right arm of Packers lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith. Suh has been fined seven times in his career, but this is the first in 2014.Its a huge loss, defensive end Darryl Tapp said. Its Ndamukong Suh. We do a lot of things with him on the defence. We build a lot of stuff around him. But its not nothing we cant overcome. We have too overcome it. Nike Air Max 90 Rabatt. Its the playoffs. Win or go home. Well have to sell out to get our brother back, and hopefully we can do that.The Lions boast the No. 1 rushing defence in the league, limiting opposing teams to just 69.3 rushing yards per game. But the Packers racked up 152 yards on the ground in their NFC North-clinching win over the Lions on Sunday — the most Detroit has surrendered all season.In fact, the Lions hadnt allowed a team to amass 100 or more yards on the ground since a win at the Jets on Sept. 28.Our defence has been really strong in that area all through the year, when you look at it statistically, coach Jim Caldwell said. There have been very few teams that have been able to run it on us with any regularity, except for yesterday. Obviously, they ran the ball us on extremely well. We have some things to get worked out, and thats our job.Now, the Lions must regroup in time to shut down the most productive running back in the league this season: DeMarco Murray, whose 115.3 yards-per-game average is 20 yards per game more than anyone else in the NFL.And the front seven will be without the dynamic presence of Suh and, in all likelihood, Nick Fairley, who hasnt played since suffering a knee injury against Atlanta on Oct. 26. Caldwell said he cant rule out the possibility that Fairley plays but that it would be a miracle.With Suh sidelined, pending the appeal process, the responsibility to clog up the middle of the field will fall to the rest of the defensive linemen, such as C.J. Mosley and ends Ziggy Ansah and Andre Fluellen. Even Tapp, who normally lines up on the outside, may be asked to play some tackle.Tapp, who spent the last three seasons within the Cowboys division at Philadelphia and Washington, knows what kind of challenge the Dallas offence poses.Murray runs very hard, and hes very explosive, Tapp said. Their offensive line is as advertised. They always get guys who are big, strong and athletic.___AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner contributed to this report.___Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '