‘“You may have not liked his production, but he was our centerman down the stretch the last 10, 12 games, and he was a big part of why we got (to the postseason),” Ruff said about Boyes. “And if we didn’t have him, we would’ve been pretty thin in the middle of the ice. … We asked him to play a position he hadn’t played in a couple of years. I thought he did a good job for us.”’