Agreed. Sometimes you have to be careful looking at the Canadian Junior leagues as the depth isnt there (from team to team) as there are so many team/leagues. For comparison's sake, Peski put up similar numbers at a much younger age than Rieger. Peski's numbers went drastically down when he went to the USHL. And Rieger is older than Peski right now.
This was a depth move as we are going to be pretty thin on the back end after this year. You never know though...could be a late bloomer I guess, that keeps developing. He must have something though or Berry wouldn't have given him an offer.