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Prospect Info: David Reinbacher - Get Well Soon Edition

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Knee injuries, as well as knee operations, are so damn hard to really assess. While the timeline to getting back on the ice, getting back in the games, like it can all be projected pretty accurately, BUT to know when the player is back to his former (or close to it) ability is just.. not as easy.

Ive had a few knee dislocations, and knee operations, and luckily in the long run my last operation had awesome effect. In the short run it was the opposite, i.e. the focus was so much on stability that the knee lacked so much in the mobility side for the longest time.

My operating surgeon was "only" Aki Hintsa (one of the best ever in Finland, he was used also by F1 teams and Barcelona (football)).. and the NHL guys will have the best ones available. But its imo, from personal experience and from following these rehabs of NHL-guys, its a waiting game. One just hopes they can get back to normal physically AND mentally, that they dont start to fear situations unnecessarily.

I hope this kid gets back and can get back on track and can deliver already from the start of next season.
 
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InsideLaine said:
My operating surgeon was "only" Aki Hintsa (one of the best ever in Finland, he was used also by F1 teams and Barcelona (football))..
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I cant find any info on his Barcelona-gig, so I most likely remembered wrong. He though helped many F1-drivers: all the Finns + Hamilton and Vettel at least.

Sorry for the offtopic but a short story: The first time I met him he said that he will bend my knee to see how far it bends.. I said that it will be very painful if he does it. He was like "well then I will know better the correct way of operating it". And he bent it, it hurt so much, but Ive never dislocated it again in the following 20+ years. RIP btw, he died in 2016.
 
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vokiel said:
October 13, 2023 playing for Kloten in the Swiss League

Some sources available here an there, ex: Injury Update: David Reinbacher's Recovery and HC Kloten's Struggles – Archyde
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Oh I thought you were talking about some big injury, is missing 3 weeks a sign of being injury prone? Lots of players miss time with injury.

Xhekaj had to get both shoulders operated on, I don't think he's injury prone. Slaf missed time with a knee in his first year, he isn't either. Anderson, Guhle, Caufield, Laine, Gally, Dach, Armia, Evans have all missed significant playing time due to injury.

We only have one Suzuki.

If you can't get behind players even if they get injured it must be tough to be a fan of this team.
 
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Walksss said:
Oh I thought you were talking about some big injury, is missing 3 weeks a sign of being injury prone? Lots of players miss time with injury.

Xhekaj had to get both shoulders operated on, I don't think he's injury prone. Slaf missed time with a knee in his first year, he isn't either. Anderson, Guhle, Caufield, Laine, Gally, Dach, Armia, Evans have all missed significant playing time due to injury.

We only have one Suzuki.

If you can't get behind players even if they get injured it must be tough to be a fan of this team.
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The biggest issue isn’t whether or not Reinbacher is injury prone (he isn’t), but rather the very important development he’s missing out on this year.

If I was the Habs management id try to get him some reps in the AHL if he can before the season ends, and see where he goes in camp. I believe the intent was for RB to start this season in MTL, and I think unless he struggles in camp next season he will make the team in a 3rd pairing role for him to get his game going.

He’s definitely not going to be Hutson where you can just throw him in the flames.
 
Walksss said:
Oh I thought you were talking about some big injury, is missing 3 weeks a sign of being injury prone? Lots of players miss time with injury.

Xhekaj had to get both shoulders operated on, I don't think he's injury prone. Slaf missed time with a knee in his first year, he isn't either. Anderson, Guhle, Caufield, Laine, Gally, Dach, Armia, Evans have all missed significant playing time due to injury.

We only have one Suzuki.

If you can't get behind players even if they get injured it must be tough to be a fan of this team.
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He had to do physio to rehab for this injury also. After 2, It might mean a lingering problem that was never healed properly some time ago. So I hope he takes time to re-rehabilitate from the surgery, gets back in skating form and finds a way to strengthen his knee so it goes away permanently.

So in retrospect: See him next season.
 
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HabsMD97 said:
Do we even know what exactly was the nature of the knee issue? Was it a broken bone, torn muscle, etc.?
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It screams "knee cap" to me, or something with Patella tendon maybe

Could obviously also be the usual suspects MCL , PCL or LCL, but not ACL in this case as that would of been announced and his season over
And there's Meniscus tears as well, could be that possibly depending the 'type' of Meniscus tear , tear on the outside not as bad as a tear on the inside

But like I said, something just tells me, by the way he fell and landed, that it's possibly knee cap related
 
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