The Montreal Canadiens ensure that David Reinbacher does not find time too long during his several-month convalescence, allowing him to attend team meetings with the coaches.
Like the majority of injured players in the organization, including Patrik Laine and Rafaël Harvey-Pinard in recent months, the young Austrian is not left to his own devices. We saw him clearly in the press gallery for CH home games and Martin St-Louis mentioned Tuesday that he was constantly in the team's entourage.
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“Even Reinbacher is in all the meetings in the morning with the coaches,” explained the head coach in his morning press briefing. […] You want to keep these guys involved. The brain, the way the team plays; you don’t want them to be like, “What are we doing?” You look at the game differently from up there.”
“When they participate in these meetings, they know where we are and where we are directing our attention. I think it helps them, when they come back on the train, to integrate with the team,” added St-Louis.
Since there are at least three or four months left to get back into shape, Reinbacher will have ample opportunity to familiarize himself with the organization between now and a possible return to play. Remember that he was injured during the calendar preparatory following a check by Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Marshall Rifai.
Guard Kaiden Guhle told The Athletic reporter Arpon Basu this week that Reinbacher was a shy kid, but he and his teammates involved him in their activities.
The fifth overall pick in the 2023 draft came to the Laval Rocket at the end of last season after three years in Switzerland. He made a good impression with the farm club by amassing five points in 11 games while maintaining a +6 rating.
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