ANAHEIM – Angered by his name continuously swirling in trade rumors, Bobby Ryan unleashed his frustration with Ducks management earlier this summer and then tuned out.

For the first time since he said he’d be fine with being dealt, Ryan addressed those comments and asserted that his first desire is to be with the team that drafted him second overall in 2005 and watched become a goal-scoring sniper.

“I wanted to come back to (my home in) Newport Beach and come back to this team and this group of guys,” Ryan said Wednesday after a voluntary workout at Anaheim Ice. “Always. That was the No. 1 thing.”

Skating with teammates and other NHL players as they await the prospect of a lockout, Ryan was making his first appearance back in Southern California after a summer of tumult largely of his own doing.

The winger lashed out in June while Ducks officials were at the NHL Draft, telling a New Jersey-based newspaper that the team has “shown me nothing to prove that they want me here, unfortunately.”

“Obviously, it’s not the ideal situation,” he told the Camden Courier-Post. “When you get drafted, you want to win championships with that team and every time they look to add a piece to the puzzle, I’m the piece going the other way.

“I gotta be honest with you. At this point, I don’t care. Move me … because it’s just tough going to the rink every day knowing that if something goes wrong, you’re going to be the guy moved.”

Ryan said he now regrets doing the interview with a reporter that his father knew while he was participating in an all-day charity golf tournament, calling it “a mistake and a slip up on my part.”

“I just told him at this point, I’m tired of fielding questions (about being traded),” he said. “I’m tired of asking. Just move me if that’s what the best interest of your team is. And if you think it’s in the best interest for me, great. I’m OK with that.

“But about 10 minutes after the interview, I was like, ‘Gosh, I shouldn’t have done that, seeing that I’m teeing off on the 37th hole of the day after 11 o’clock.’ It was kind of stupid.

“At that point, you can’t kick yourself for too long. I knew that if (Ducks general manager Bob Murray) really had a problem with it, he would reach out to me. That never happened.”

Both Ryan and his agent, Mark Guy of Toronto-based Newport Sports Management, said that they’ve never asked the Ducks for a trade and the club confirms that.

But the comments did their damage as they sent the rumor mill into overdrive. Ryan said Guy told him to keep his cell phone on after speaking with a surprised Murray at the draft.

No trade was or has been made.

“You know, I was glad,” Ryan said. “I was kind of expecting a phone call at some point. And then I knew with the (possible) lockout, things could change. I was really excited that it didn’t because I didn’t want to book a flight anywhere else.

“I was happy to come home.”

Ryan also created a major stir when he suggested that he’d enjoy playing for the Philadelphia Flyers, the hometown team in which he grew up rooting for and has reportedly tried to put together a package for the four-time 30-goal scorer.

ESPN.com reported the Flyers tried to send winger James van Riemsdyk to Anaheim as the key piece for Ryan but that Murray wanted center Brayden Schenn instead. Philadelphia later traded van Riemsdyk to Toronto.

Murray has thus far resisted offers from the Flyers and several other teams for a potential star that’s under contract for three more seasons at a reasonable salary-cap hit of $5.1 million. He’s also been mum about Ryan’s immediate future.

Outside of calling Ryan’s comments “disappointing,” Murray hasn’t said anything other than he wanted to talk with the winger at some point and “clear the air a little bit.” That meeting has not happened.

Having spent the majority of the summer at his off-season home in Idaho, Ryan said he figures that he’ll have to meet with Murray at some point but it won’t be him that broaches the session.

“I would assume that he would probably want,” he said. “But it’s not my job to reach out. … At this point, nothing’s happened. So I’m hoping we don’t even need to.”

Said Guy: “I am sure Bob Murray and Bobby will sit down to discuss where things stand but at this stage, Bobby is back in Anaheim training and is focused on getting ready for the season.”

But Ryan said he doesn’t feel that he needs Murray to publicly pull him off the trade market, as he did in November after firing Randy Carlyle as coach and hiring Bruce Boudreau. Ryan spoke with Boudreau on Wednesday.

“Absolutely not,” Ryan said. “I know that I have Bruce’s support and that means a lot to me. The general manager is obviously the person that pulls the strings behind the curtain. But having the support of your head coach … I feel like I have a great relationship with Bruce.

“I think that if Bruce wants me here, I’m here to stay.”

But while he has good feelings about working further with Boudreau, Ryan said he still isn’t sure where he stands in his relationship with the Ducks overall.

“I have no idea,” he said. “There’s certainly no bad air between the coaching staff and I. The training staff’s been great. As far as I’m concerned, I’m a Duck and I’m coming to camp and will be ready to compete.

“I can’t speak for the front office. I have no idea. Hopefully it’s something they can clear up with you. As far as I’m concerned, I’m here and I’m ready to go.”

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