Player recap--Riley McIntosh

At the mid-term point I felt Riley was the most improved player on the team. So what happened?

By late February he was being rotated game-by-game with Brock Sutherland.  Then...sat for a couple games in a row.  Then sat for the rest of the season and playoffs.  I don't know who he pissed off or what he did, but it was a shame to see.  He had clearly upped his game since last season.  He skates well, moves the puck great, is big enough to clear bodies out of the crease.  But no, he was a 19-year-old veteran defenseman sitting in the stands, looking good in a suit.  It didn't help (him) that Zachary Yuen really turned it on the last half of the season either.

I was unimpressed with Brock Sutherland's play as the playoffs went on, but at that point Riley had been in the stands too long, would have been too rusty to be very effective.  There was a time I was holding out hope that he was the "secret weapon" and he'd take the ice in a vital game 7 and be amazing.  How wrong I was (duhhh).  And Mikaela was so disappointed that her "I believe in Riley McIntosh" sign sat in the corner gathering cobwebs.  I was disappointed, he was better than that, showed so much promise.

The other day Bob Tory placed McIntosh and Kennedy on waivers, so his time with the Americans has come to an end.  I don't know what his future plans are, but I sure wish him the best of luck in all his endeavors.

For his look-alike, we have this unknown person on a poster in Hawaii that Mikaela found on her vacation last year.  Riley and him are twins I swear.