Habs Fans Reactions to Drafting David Reinbacher

JianYang

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I personally have no rights to get psyched up about any draft choice. I compared B. Tkachuk, Zadina and Kotkaniemi a lot before the draft and to me the habs made the best choice between the 3. I thought Zadina’s game would not transfer well to the NHL and did not see anything special with Tkachuk… Man I was wrong on that one !


I’m pretty sure this has been debunked as false, but am too lazy to confirm.

The Habs interviewed that lady a few years ago. I remember that she's some die hard habs fan in America.

I can't remember if she mentioned having some relation to Zadina but I think that was covered in the interview. She also had no issues with KK and supported him 100%.

It's probably in the archives on the habs website somewhere.
 

beowulf

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I was in Montreal this weekend for Canada Day and stayed at my parents and my brother who still lives in Montreal, my parents and a bunch of their neighbors I spoke with during a Canada Day party were not even aware this had happened. A fringe group of idiot fans being idiots.
 

ole ole

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Not sure if this is true or not but pretty disgusting if it is. You have to wonder if the kid signs there. Management doesn’t even want him to report to NA allegedly because of this.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like this.
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To show several other sources since several posters think this is made up:
Canadiens fans' reaction to controversial draft pick may affect development plans

Habs’ first-rounder David Reinbacher receives hate messages and death threats from fans in Montreal

Jack Todd: Many Canadiens fans should be ashamed of themselves

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Again a lot of BS mixed in with some truth.
Example
[ According to Basu, some in the Canadiens front office are concerned about bringing Reinbacher to Montreal or Laval this year ]

Everyone and his grandmother knows that's BS as Reinbacher himself has already said he wasn't coming this yr as he has prior commitments.
If the reporter can't even get that straight what else is BS in that write -up?

I haven’t seen any evidence of this but there’s always going to be a few mentally unstable nutjobs in large groups of people.
And to add a few trying to make it sound like it's the whole Hab nation.
 
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HuGo Sham

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The Habs interviewed that lady a few years ago. I remember that she's some die hard habs fan in America.

I can't remember if she mentioned having some relation to Zadina but I think that was covered in the interview. She also had no issues with KK and supported him 100%.

It's probably in the archives on the habs website somewhere.
she and he husband are habs fans and were also Zadina's Billet family in Halifax
 
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HuGo Sham

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I was in Montreal this weekend for Canada Day and stayed at my parents and my brother who still lives in Montreal, my parents and a bunch of their neighbors I spoke with during a Canada Day party were not even aware this had happened. A fringe group of idiot fans being idiots.
This. Some of the idiots who posted tried to walk it back quickly. What they did was terrible.

But it's also telling many in here aren't posting about the habs fans who stopped by with thousands of printed messages of support during habs development camp this week - or the fact Reinbacher was on habs twitch answering questions and getting lots of love and apologies.
just doesn't fit into the narrative of the habs haters.
 

bumblebeeman

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I was in Montreal this weekend for Canada Day and stayed at my parents and my brother who still lives in Montreal, my parents and a bunch of their neighbors I spoke with during a Canada Day party were not even aware this had happened. A fringe group of idiot fans being idiots.

Being a hockey fan is already being in a fringe group haha. Nevermind being on top of random hockey news like this, most people will have no idea
 

ole ole

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Habs fans are not mad about Reinbacher, it’s an ok pick, we all just wanted Michkov that’s different. Those people who sent hate to that kid needs to consult and clearly needs help. Let’s go David prove them wrong, we love you!
For all we know those people that sent the hate weren't even Hab fans.
All it takes is a few fake posters and a whole bunch of idiots will run with it dishing out hate.
 
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ole ole

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Hopefully it doesn't actually stop him from coming to NA, that would be a joke and MTL fans should be ashamed with how they behaved when the pick was made.
I'm not ashamed on how i behaved and i'm a Hab fan.
Not who i wanted but hopefully he turns out to be a good D-man for us for the next 10+ yrs.
 

ole ole

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Habs fans are wild. I mean took them a minute to turn on Shane Wright cuz their team passed on him even tho 90 percent of the fanbase wanted him.
Took the whole board minutes to turn on him. See i can post absolute bulshit just like you.
 

ole ole

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Where's the proof of those thousands of hate messages? There's literally ONE video from tw*tter of a guy screaming and being upset. That's it.
Find 1 thing to make the Habs look bad and try to blame all Hab fans.
Typical HF.
 

dirtydanglez

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i haven't seen habs fans act this way since 2022.

dont blame slaf and reinbacher, blame the scouts.
 

Weztex

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"A few". Yeah. Not many though.

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Nice way to try and downplay it.

Where's the proof of those thousands of hate messages? There's literally ONE video from tw*tter of a guy screaming and being upset. That's it.

At the light of what we know, it's beginning to be clear that this title was misleading and that it either includes social media messages, or somebody came up with a clickbait title. There's no way an 18 years old personally receives thousands of hate mail including death threats and nobody have more about it 3 days later.

Here's what he said.

"I don't want to talk about it," Reinbacher said about the negative messages he received on social media. "I read the good messages. Thanks to all the fans who wrote the good messages. It's time to work. [There's] a lot of work to do. If they talk negative, probably I will prove them wrong one day. I will work at it."

The last paper about it on LaPresse mentions a number of people (read a-holes) trashing him on his IG (which led him to disable the comment section of his last post). But the title, complete with ''thousands'' in quotation marks begin to look like someone got carried with hyperbole. Hate messages online need to be condemned, but we're talking about let's say, Facebook comments, the number is not that surprising given the size of the fan base.
 

MK9

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On this board , Sir you are correct.
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Kimota

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Most Habs fans I talked to like Reinbacher but were freaking pissed that Michkov wasn't picked.

I don't know, something about that hate mail thing doesn't sound right. I just don't see any of them attacking the player. There was already questions about not Michkov being political coming from Molson's way. Could the club have somehow engineered this fake scandal so fans would stop protesting?
 
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Maitz

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Saw him live at the development camp today, he is really impressive, I think he has a lot of potential. Maybe not an offensive dynamo but the type of dman you need to win a cup. Would have loved Michkov but we have a top 4 dman for sure
 

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