Phil Stacey: On Hockey: Unheralded, underappreciated Ritchie plays a role in Bruins' Game 1...

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May 30—BOSTON — He's too big and slow. He can't keep up with the pace of play in the playoffs, a 6-foot-2, 232-pound tortoise trying to shut down a fleet of jackrabbits wearing skates. That's the knock on Nick Ritchie, the burly Bruins winger whose deficiencies can be exposed by faster, more explosive opponents who avoid his checks and blow past him. But the Bruins don't see Ritchie as a ...

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