If the Canadiens don’t have a great team on the ice, they do have a great team to follow in the off-season. After all, you’d think the Habs would be looking for a forward.
Last year, the Canadiens drafted David Reinbacher fifth overall. The club once again improved its bank of defensive prospects, but more importantly, it got its hands on a player who seems to be a good kid.
Tonight, the Laval Rocket play the last game of their season. Yesterday’s defeat has officially eliminated the club from the playoff race, so tonight’s game is all about fitness.
The Canadiens played two games this week. The club was in Detroit on Monday… And the next day, the Wings visited the Bell Centre. At both games, we had the opportunity to see Lane Hutson in action.
David Reinbacher has been in the Laval Rocket uniform for a while now. The young defenseman is playing his eighth game in a Laval uniform this afternoon, and even though he arrived in the midst of the playoff race, he has quickly become indispensable to Jean-François Houle.
When you think of the best defensemen to have played for the Habs in the last 20 years, there are some obvious names that could be part of the discussion.
This afternoon, David Reinbacher is in action in a Laval Rocket uniform, as the club takes on the Belleville Senators. Obviously, the young defenseman is being closely watched, and late in the first period, Reinbacher took the liberty of delivering a solid shoulder strike to Jacob Larsson along the boards.
David Reinbacher’s offensive impact is far from his most impressive since arriving in Laval. The good news is that it’s not his job. We need to explain to everyone that he’s a defensive-minded defender and that’s how he’s going to help his team win games.
Who doesn’t remember the comments some fans made about David Reinbacher when he was drafted? When Carey Price announced the selection of David Reinbacher last June, many Habs fans didn’t like it.
The NHL Draft is just over three months away, and there’s one major prevailing theme: it’s an incredible year to draft a high-end defenseman. After the 2023 selection lacked high-end options behind David Reinbacher, the 2024 is full of them.
The Rocket had a perfect weekend. Jean-François Houle’s men won all three of their games over the weekend (two against Belleville and one against Toronto), and the timing was perfect because the playoff race is heating up in the AHL.
The Laval Rocket must win as many games as possible over the next few days, as the season draws to a close and Jean-François Houle’s troupe is in the thick of the playoff race.
It didn’t take long for Montreal Canadiens prospect David Reinbacher to make his mark in the AHL. The 2023 fifth-overall pick scored his first goal on the lone shot he took in his North American professional hockey debut with the Canadiens’ AHL affiliate, the Laval Rocket.
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By all accounts, the 2023-24 season has been incredibly difficult for Montreal Canadiens prospect David Reinbacher. After playing heavy minutes for EHC
Now that the playout series between EHC Kloten and Ajoie is no longer necessary, top prospect David Reinbacher is free to join the Montreal Canadiens organization.
The Canadiens reassigned 2023 fifth-overall pick David Reinbacher to the AHL’s Laval Rocket on Monday.
Like the selection or not, Montreal Canadiens defenseman David Reinbacher is undeniably polarizing. What shouldn’t be is the similarly undeniable notion that, once he arrives in North America, he should start off in the American Hockey League (AHL).
The 2023 NHL entry draft had some of the best under-18 players we’ve seen in a few years. The first round was so deep in talent that it could be compared to the renowned 2015 draft.
You may have noticed certain Montreal Canadiens fans paying attention to a Swiss League semi-final game on Friday afternoon. While the game itself did not feature top prospect David Reinbacher, it did have important implications when it comes to his arrival in North America.
With the trade deadline over and the Montreal Canadiens closer to the bottom five of the league than a wild card spot, there isn’t much for fans to be excited about.
With the 2024 Trade Deadline having passed with little action from the Montreal Canadiens, and the team highly unlikely to make a late-season playoff push sitting at 24-30-10, fans may begin to look towards the off-season, next season, and beyond.
The Montreal Canadiens decided to do something different with their fifth-overall pick at the 2024 NHL Draft, David Reinbacher, than they did with their 2022 first-overall pick, Juraj Slafkovsky: They sent him back to Europe to join his Swiss League (NL) club, EHC Kloten.
When the Canadiens were on the clock with the No. 5 overall pick in the draft last week in Nashville, many expected the choice to be Matvei Michkov — a projected top-line scorer and presumed future All-Star.
One week after becoming the first defenseman taken in the 2023 NHL Draft, David Reinbacher has signed his first contract with the Montreal Canadiens.
The Montreal Canadiens have signed their 2023 first-round pick to a three-year entry-level contract.
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