Prospect Info: David Reinbacher

[BenchBrawl]

Now change your avatar back! you're embarrassing me!

One player doesn't make a team! You should know this!

One player can define an era.

30 years of this shit.

30 years !

What % of posters here are even that old?

 

[The Great Weal]

I legit think I would have taken a break from this team if we drafted Simashev. Is Reinbacher staying another year? Laval would be fun to watch with him and Mailloux.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[HuGo Burner Acc]

I'm perfectly able to look at the Habs as a totality. I can go as deep as looking at the history of the club, and seeing Newsy Lalonde, to Howie Morenz, to Maurice Richard, to Jean Béliveau, to Guy Lafleur, and seeing a very clear end to that line of great forward superstars after that. Which coincides with us not winning much anymore, except when Roy decided the be clutch.

You do not pass up on a phenom forward here at 5th to play LEGO with your building plan.

This team used to mean something.

I get it but we as a fanbase have to stop comparing the team to it's predecessors from the 70s, etc. As a Yankee fan, I learned this lesson a long time ago. There are plenty of ways to build a contender. I also want to remind everyone that the best playoff team are those that make the least mistakes and are able to capitalize on the opposition's mistakes not those who create the most. Creation in the playoffs is pretty much only done in the context of mistakes made. Remember when Tampa beat Habs in game 5 in 2021. The score was 1-0. The goal was caused mostly by Staal not any great offensive creation by tampa

 

[Guess]

Is it really possible neither FLyers nor Caps offered any asset to trade up and switch with us?

Reinbacher better be much, much better than Barron and Mailloux to use a 5OA on him.

Flyers offered assets but the Habs were worried that Arizona would pick Reinbacher instead of Simashev which they probably would have done.

I imagine Hughes wanted Smith, he looked devastated when they showed him before the pick, but then Reinbacher was after him and that's why they didn't trade down.

 

[Belial]

One player can define an era.

30 years of this shit.

30 years !

What % of posters here are even that old?

Do you still believe Michkov is this generational talent?

He wouldn't drop behind another Russian player if he was this good!

 

[Runner77]

he was popular in the draft thread too before the season ending when it was close to only poster who watch a lot of games

Like I said earlier most poster who complain hard about that pick are poster I never saw on the draft thread during the year and I’m pretty sure most haven’t watch a single game or him

It’s not about Reinbacher’s upside or the need he fills.

The main point of contention is whether he was the BPA where he was taken.

 

[Balthazar]

Michkov was on their no draft list so Reinbacher was the right pick. Arizona had Reinbacher before Simashev so the Habs couldn't trade down.

This thread (and the GDT draft thread) will age like milk.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I get it but we as a fanbase have to stop comparing the team to it's predecessors from the 70s, etc. As a Yankee fan, I learned this lesson a long time ago. There are plenty of ways to build a contender. I also want to remind everyone that the best playoff team are those that make the least mistakes and are able to capitalize on the opposition's mistakes not those who create the most. Creation in the playoffs is pretty much only done in the context of mistakes made. Remember when Tampa beat Habs in game 5 in 2021. The score was 1-0. The goal was caused mostly by Staal not any great offensive creation by tampa

That's way too close to a "anything can happen in the playoffs" outlook for me. I hate this mentality of gambling on cinderella runs.

Tampa was a memorable team with a memorable, identifiable core. Sure, in the actual games anything can happen. But their era was well-defined, and will bring memories to fans there.

Nobody gives a shit about that 2021 run from Montreal. Who cares? I'm not even sure who was on the team no more and it's only been 2 years.

 

[nhlfan9191]

They clearly felt he was the BPA though. And they picked him despite having Theo. I don’t see how anyone can dispute that.

They certainly weren’t drafting for need.

I think on the whole, superstars are what win you cups. Most teams have at least one on the roster. And the best goalie in the league usually will at least make a finals appearance no matter how bad his team is at some point in his career.

My guess is that the Canadiens don’t see Mich as the superstar every team wants. They may not believe in his ability to realize his awesome potential.

It’s going to be interesting to see if they turn out to be right.

Theodore was 29 at the time tho. Pierre Maguires famous comments at the time never made any sense. Even if Theodore’s game didn’t immediately fall of a cliff, Price was going to be coming up around the time we expected to Theodore to start declining. Halak was also a 9th round pick who hadn’t done anything yet.

 

[lamp9post]

That clip was played as nauseam on Sportsnet.

Whenever they discussed a prospect, they always showed the announcement by the team that picked him. And of course, since ours was flubbed, it stuck out like a sore thumb.

I guess Price took a page from Weber announcing Cole « Caufelt » when he was selected.

it was a total embarrassment, of course mainstream media is going to milk it for all they can. Its one thing to misprounounce the name...another to seemingly forget it entirely.

 

[Vachon23]

It’s not about Reinbacher’s upside or the need he fills.

The main point of contention is whether he was the BPA where he was taken.

He was though

I mean the team after us was going to draft him

 

[OnTheRun]

To the people telling those who aren't happy to calm down, you realize that Michkov represented the hope of getting the star for the first time in forever.

The chances of Reinbacher becoming a #1D star are probably not that high.

So it doesn't matter if he pans out and becomes a 2-3D, anything but a #1 star D is a fail for them.

Nothing wrong with calming down either way, since your hope are tied on something that has yet to happen. Michkov isn't a NHL star yet and Reinbacher isn't the 2nd coming of Komisarek (whatever?) yet.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Do you still believe Michkov is this generational talent?

He wouldn't drop behind another Russian player if he was this good!

Yes.

 

[Runner77]

So Hughes is a sweet talker but a shit walker.

That won’t wash. Some fans will never forgive him over this. Should the player he passed on realize his potential and possibly arrive sooner, Hughes will be taken to task big time.

 

[Bombshell11]

Lukas Dragicevic​

Lukas Dragicevic - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Lukas Dragicevic, 2005-04-25 Richmond, BC, CAN Canada. Most recently in the WHL with Prince Albert Raiders. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

75 pts in the WHL,
birthday 2005 april,
6'1" / 185 cm
194 lbs / 88 kg
Right Handed, D

Available in the second round

If we wanted a RD this bad why did we give away 31 and 37 for Newhook? And we could have traded down, acquire an extra pick for our 5th...

Leonard/ Dragicevic+ 2 Late 1st is light years better than Raheinbaker / Newhook

Hey man this is a real clown show.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Sucks we won't be able to see Reinbarcher at the wjc since Austria got relegated

 

[Belial]

it was a total embarrassment, of course mainstream media is going to milk it for all they can. Its one thing to misprounounce the name...another to seemingly forget it entirely.

He probably was afraid to mispronounce his name more than him completely forgetting his name...

 

[Skip Bayless]

I think the anxiety around this pick is due to people not watching him in NL, end of story. To start the year I thought he was an interesting prospect, but I changed my mind on him when I watched him in Switzerland. In some games he absolutely took over, on both sides of the puck.

I didn't see him in NLA, besides some shift by shifts provided by Grant, but I do see the Josi comparison. In many sequences, he will go all in on offense, and then magically appear in position defensively. Just an explosive skater.

 

[Pickles]

This isn't a sexy pick to be sure. I was hoping for Michkov too but I wasn't excited when we drafted Price either at 5th so what do I know.

This kind of reminds me of the Price draft. We were set in nets at the time and that pick was a puzzler at the time too.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Mr. David Reinbacher, I welcome you to Montreal and wish you prove everyone wrong, and hope the fans will be nothing but all class and supportive to you, regardless of what happens next.

 

[Cubebrick]

I think the anxiety around this pick is due to people not watching him in NL, end of story. To start the year I thought he was an interesting prospect, but I changed my mind on him when I watched him in Switzerland. In some games he absolutely took over, on both sides of the puck.

He took over some games, in a strong men's league, at 18, in a subpar team that just got promoted into the NL.

There's absolutely nothing he does wrong on the ice. His gap control, info gathering, transition on both sides of the ice, physicality in winning 50-50s puck protection and closing spaces, his all-around passing game and his shot selection are all great tools he's got.

It's also funny how some are saying that he has no offense in his game when he was pretty much running Kloten's PP at the end of the season.

I also won't talk about the factual info/stats that paints him as having one of the best D-1 for an European dman since it was brought up endless times.

Anyway, no one cares about all that when feelings are hurt.

 

[HuGo Burner Acc]

To the people telling those who aren't happy to calm down, you realize that Michkov represented the hope of getting the star for the first time in forever.

The chances of Reinbacher becoming a #1D star are probably not that high.

So it doesn't matter if he pans out and becomes a 2-3D, anything but a #1 star D is a fail for them.

I had michkov ranked 2 on my list. Why aren't other fanbases in the top 5 besides Chicago crucifying their management for passing on a superstar in the making for a possible top 30 player? And why wasn't michkov taken immediate after Habs picked? Does dude have an ego problem? Is his game not conducive to a team format? Is he unwavering in his devotion to develop in the correct way? Who knows. I still think he'll be a superstar but lets not fool ourselves to think he's the next Ovechkin. Dude is another panarin. And we instead decided to hopefully pick a pieterangelo. And we've all seen which is more important to a Stanley Cup contending team

 

[Stive Morgan]

I’m fine with the pick, but disappointed because I really wish the Habs would ice a high end, game breaking forward once in my lifetime.

Michkov was super risky, but I would have liked to take that gamble.

I've never even gotten a 100 pt forward in my WHL fandom until 2017-18 lol (thanks Patrick Bajkov)

 

[WentWughes]

Lukas Dragicevic​

Lukas Dragicevic - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Lukas Dragicevic, 2005-04-25 Richmond, BC, CAN Canada. Most recently in the WHL with Prince Albert Raiders. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

75 pts in the WHL,
birthday 2005 april,
6'1" / 185 cm
194 lbs / 88 kg
Right Handed, D

Available in the second round

If we wanted a RD this bad why did we give away 31 and 37 for Newhook? And we could have traded down, acquire an extra pick for our 5th...

Leonard/ Dragicevic+ 2 Late 1st is light years better than Raheinbaker / Newhook

Hey man this is a real clown show.

Dragicevic is a tire fire defensively and will likely never become an NHL player. I am glad we did not waste a pick on him