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Originally Posted by Trochu
I'm amazed at the Oilers, again, Bob Nicholson:
"Toby Rieder will not be signed by the Edmonton Oilers at the end of this year. Toby was a player that other teams wanted. He came here for one year because he wanted to play with Leon Draisaitl who he plays with on the German national team. He thought if he wasn't playing with Leon he'd be playing with Connor [McDavid], he'd score 15-16 goals, and instead of making two million he'd sign a four-year deal [extension] at three and a half million. Toby Rieder hasn't scored a goal. Toby Rieder has missed so many breakaways. If Toby Rieder would have scored 10 or 12 goals, we'd probably be in the playoffs"
Yup, Rieder is the reason they didn't make the playoffs! 
He later apologized, but to even be thinking that? There is one team with a negative goal differential in the playoffs right now, Arizona at -8. If Rieder scores 10 more, Edmonton's differential is -28. Scares me to think a guy searching for the GM said Rieder and 10 goals is the difference between the current situation and the playoffs. |
Yep BobbyNick did a boo-boo by throwing Rieder under the bus. Let's face it he was under fire by the season ticket holders asking for changes, he appeased them with this morsel. Politically incorrect these days. You just can't call out UNDER PERFORMERS in public anymore.
Coaches and GM's probably chew these guys out daily behind closed doors, telling them to pick up their performance (on deaf ears) Perhaps slagging them in public works? NO
