Prospect Info: David Reinbacher

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Man I feel bad for this kid, he will never get a fair shake with this fan base.
All that matters is what management thinks of him and all I kept hearing lately is how poised with the puck and impressed they are with his performance at camp. They're doubling down hard on this pick and I get it, he has all the tools to be a first pairing all-around D-man.
 

Tyson

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All that matters is what management thinks of him and all I kept hearing lately is how poised with the puck and impressed they are with his performance at camp. They're doubling down hard on this pick and I get it, he has all the tools to be a first pairing all-around D-man.
I agree partly, I saw how Patrice Brisebois was treated and how it affected him. It's way more than management liking a player.
 

Kennerback

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Slafkofsky had to fight through a lot of second guessing. I don’t think a single person still wants Wright over Slafkovsky (or I certainly hope not). Reinbacher has a much longer and tougher hill to climb. Ds take longer to develop and the 2023 draft was stronger.

With that said I think Reinbacher is a much better fit for the Habs today than the alternative. The only worthwhile argument left is could we have picked someone else at 5OA and flipped that player for someone better than Reinbacher today. Idk. In the end things worked out for the best.
 

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So tired of the not-picking-Michkov hangover by some Habs fan on this board. Here's are our projected wingers next year on the top two lines:
Slaf
Caufield
Demidov
Laine

You want Michkov over any of these guys? A guy that does not seem to be particularly pleasant to start with, and who is 5'9" and not interested in playing defense?

We need a Reinbacher-type player, we don't need Michkov.
 

yianik

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I appreciated when Gainey did that.
Patrice was at best a second pairing Dman often forced to play top pairing minutes, something he wasn't designed for. He played over a 1000 games.
Man the fans were hard on him
Well the fans see Brisbois bobble the puck at the blue line regularly that results in an odd man rush ( hence Breezeby ) and they react. Gainey stood up for him, shut the media down and said the team doesn't want fans who act like that to a player. Prior management didn't do that and should have because yeah, they failed at not getting top pair D and had to plug Brisbois into a bigger role than he had the ability for. So Breezer was a bulls eye.
 
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Tyson

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Well the fans see Brisbois bobble the puck at the blue line regularly that results in an odd man rush ( hence Breezeby ) and they react. Gainey stood up for him, shut the media down and said the team doesn't want fans who act like that to a player. Prior management didn't do that and should have because yeah, they failed at not getting top pair D and had to plug Brisbois into a bigger role than he had the ability for. So Breezer was a bulls eye.
For sure Brisebois had some defensive challenges.
 
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yianik

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For sure Brisebois had some defensive challenges.
Yep.

And Koivu would have produced more if he didn't have to put his 5 foot 10 body into the corners to dig out the puck since management rarely provided him with wingers he needed.
 
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That's a very good description of Reinbacher's game. First pass and processing are Reinbacher's biggest strengths. It allows him to turn defense into offense as fast as anybody in the game of hockey. I don't know if he's ever gonna be elite on the PP or PK but he's gonna be an absolute monster at even strength and create a ton of offense.
 

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