Rieder's a wierd case. He's regularily out there when the team is creating havoc on the cycle or forecheck... yet it's always a linemate of his - Mangiapane, or in the previous game Quine, etc, that really draws my attention.
I'll watch him more carefully tonight but I suspect Quine is the guy we should have kept up over him.
As for Hathaway, he is what he is. An extremely solid 12th forward. Do I miss him a little? Sure. Will the team miss him the way they still miss Ferland or Byron? Nah. Whether it's Quine or Phillips or Dube or Tuulola or Gawdin or Zavgorodniy or some wierd combination of callups, it won't be long before we find some bottom six lines with chemistry. I actually still think Hathaway's shooting percentage last year was a mirage despite a hot start this year - so I'm glad we're not paying him to recreate last year's goal scoring.
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