That's not what he has shown in the AHL. His hands seemed fine. He's clearly not Makar but Matvichuk is a gross undervaluation. After what Rainbacher has shown in the AHL last year even if the sample size was small it makes the overly negative predictions look like people trying to be negative just for the sake of it. Svoboda would probably be a better comparable.
He did show his offensive flair a bit more, which I liked to see. Maybe in Kloten they were so dog**** this year that he felt he had to be on defense all the time and not really take any risks.
My issue with taking him in the first place is, when you think of "best D in the draft" or picking a D at 5, you look at what you're getting and what you expect from a player like that. Me? I expect dynamic or dominant, something about their game that I just marvel at. With Reinbacher, you don't really get that.
Is he a Makar-level skater with dynamic edges? No
Is his IQ insanely off the charts like a Hutson? Not really.
Okay but he huge, a beast defensively like a Hedman, intimidating like a Weber? Also not really.
Is he super offensively gifted like a Heiskanen or a Hughes? Also not really.
He has some level of this in him. He
can be offensive. He
can be good defensively. But to me he looks like an above average, jack of all trades master of none type of D. I could be way off base, which I've been before, but the pick seems so vanilla to me, especially at 5 and especially for a D that is supposed to be the best of his draft class.