"Bobby Ryan had been thinking he might be moving a lot closer to home real soon.

The Anaheim Ducks star right wing and pride of Cherry Hill was on the trading black, and if you believed all the gossip, the 24-year-old sniper possibly was headed to the rival New York Rangers or Buffalo Sabres, not the Flyers, as nice as he'd look in orange and black.

But following a few days of hot rumors, everything apparently changed late Wednesday night when the Ducks made a much different big move by firing long-time coach Randy Carlyle.

"Let's see what happens now because Randy and Bobby butted heads quite often," NBC hockey analyst Pierre McGuire said. "Maybe Bobby Ryan no longer is on the market place."

What's happened is Ducks general manager Bob Murray apparently now plans on holding on to Ryan.

"Bob told me things should settle down now for the time being," Ryan told reporters on Thursday. "I'm looking forward to pressing restart on this season.""