Bruins' Spooner: I don't think Julien liked me as a player

Ryan Spooner is airing some laundry now that the dust has settled.

The Boston Bruins center addressed his relationship with former head coach Claude Julien on Tuesday, admitting he didn't feel like the two were on the same page, to say the least.

"I felt like the last coach ... he just didn’t really trust me," Spooner said, per Joe Haggerty of CSNNE "It might've been kind of on me not really playing to the potential that I have, but at the same time ... I just don’t think that he really liked me as a player.

Spooner added: "It’s kind of in the past now. It’s just a part of the game. It’s up to me to just go out there and just play, and not have that stuff in the back of my mind."

After a breakout 2015-16 in which he recorded 13 goals and 36 points as the team's third-line center, the 25-year-old has taken a few steps back production-wise this season, due in part to being bounced around from the middle to the wing early on under Julien.

In seven games under interim bench boss Bruce Cassidy, Spooner has been good for two goals and four assists, perhaps with a bit of renewed confidence in his back pocket.