Robert Reichel.

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Saw a thread about Lukas and went to check out his uncle and saw that he'd play a few years in the NHL, go back overseas for a year, or two, them back to the NHL.

I'm just wondering anyone knows why ?

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[Stringer Bell]

It's in his wiki.

I once watched him take a slapshot on a penalty shot.

...and his his hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting.

 

[Staniowski]

Reichel had a couple salary disputes. I think he had some difficulty getting paid what he thought he was worth.

He might be the best example of a player who was a superstar both internationally and in the country where he was from, but struggled somewhat in the NHL. So perhaps that produced a bit of a disconnect over his value.

 

[sr edler]

Reichel was never a superstar in international hockey, but he was quite good. For some reason I always kinda thought of him as the Czech equivalent of Michael Nylander, though they weren't really that stylistically close and Reichel had more success over in the NHL, early on at least, though perhaps Nylander aged better for whatever reason. They were teammates early on in Calgary as well.

 

[Crosby2010]

Reichel I thought was good in his Calgary days. He might be most famous for getting robbed blind by Kirk McLean in double overtime of the 1994 playoffs in Game 7. Fleury goes in on a two-on-one with him and feathers a lovely pass and in all honesty they did nothing wrong on the play, but McLean made the save of the decade right then. Too bad it didn't go in, because he was not a good playoff performer. I can remember his days in Toronto and he was just woeful in the postseason for them.

I do remember him scoring the lone shootout goal in 1998 on Roy. Broke our hearts. And I had to wake up at 2am just to see that game live.

 

[MadLuke]

I remember him being really good on the NHL 94 pc version, that Gary Roberts-Reichel-Makarov second line with Gary Suter at D on the second pair that was on the ice with them was deadly in that game, kind of preferred it to the Fleury-Nieuwendyk-? first line.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

It's in his wiki.

I once watched him take a slapshot on a penalty shot.

...and his his hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting.

I was at that game. It was a bizarre decision. I assume he was trying to catch Roman Cechmanek off guard, but he easily made the save.

 

[Gerulaitis]

Reichel recorded back-to-back 40-goal seasons in the early 90s.
A very solid center.

Done well for the national team.

The only Czech player who scored against both Russia and Canada in the Nagano Olympics.

 

[MS]

Reichel really seemed like a guy on the ascendency as a future star circa 1993 or 1994 and then the lockout happened and he decided it was more fun playing in Germany than the NHL and his career just never regained its momentum after he returned.

Came back and was more of a softish 2C with NYI in his first return, then left for Europe again. Then was just an ok-ish middle-6 C in his second return.

The multiple departures from the NHL probably speak to a lack of commitment that caused him to underachieve. Was generally considered a pretty soft player through his career.