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Canadiens take different approach with David Reinbacher’s development

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2 October 2023
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After keeping No. 1 draft pick Juraj Slafkovsky in NHL last season, Habs believe going back to Swiss-A League is best thing for defenceman.

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Stu Cowan  •  Montreal Gazette

Published Oct 02, 2023  •  Last updated 10 minutes ago  •  3 minute read

Defenceman David Reinbacher, in a red jersey on the right side of the photo, is seen pushing Jared Davidson during Canadiens rookie camp in Brossard last month.
Defenceman David Reinbacher, right, pushes Jared Davidson during Canadiens rookie camp in Brossard last month. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

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The Canadiens believe sending David Reinbacher back to the Swiss-A League is the best thing for his development.

Reinbacher, selected in the first round of this year’s NHL Draft (fifth overall), had a solid pre-season game Saturday night in a 3-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Bell Centre. But after the game, the Canadiens announced they were sending the 18-year-old back to Kloten-HC. Last season, Reinbacher had 3-19-22 totals and a plus-7 differential in 46 games with the Swiss-A club.

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Reinbacher didn’t look out of place at all during training camp, but the Canadiens are trying something different with him than they did last year with Juraj Slafkovsky, the left-winger they took with the No. 1 overall pick at the 2022 draft. Slafkovsky often looked out of place in the 39 games he played last season with the Canadiens, posting 4-6-10 totals and a minus-13 before suffering a season-ending knee injury.

Now there’s a different approach with Reinbacher.

“I think it’s the amount of good young (defenceman) we have,” head coach Martin St. Louis said Monday about the Canadiens’ decision to send Reinbacher back to Switzerland. “The position he plays. What kind of role he plays over in Switzerland. I think for him to be able to go play 20-something minutes, play on the power play and stuff, I don’t think we necessarily could give him those reps here. So we felt it was the best thing for him this year. I thought he was really good. As advertised for me and I’m really happy.”

Slafkovsky only averaged only 12:13 of ice time last season.

“You got to give him opportunity to increase those (minutes) and he’ll get that,” St. Louis said. “It’s up to him.”

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The Canadiens cut their training-camp roster down to 28 players over the weekend — 15 forwards, 10 defencemen and three goalies. The roster limit for the regular season is 23 players and it’s normally 14 forwards, seven defencemen and two goalies.

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Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, Sean Monahan, Alex Newhook, Josh Anderson, Kirby Dach, Brendan Gallagher, Rafaël Harvey-Pinard and Slafkovsky will probably be the top nine forwards with the line combinations still up in the air. That would leave Joel Armia, Tanner Pearson, Jake Evans, Michael Pezzetta, Emil Heineman and Jesse Ylönen battling for the final five forward spots.

The Canadiens announced Monday that Newhook, Pezzetta and defenceman Gustav Lindstrom are listed as day-to-day with upper-body injuries.

Lindstrom, Justin Barron, Logan Mailloux and Mattias Norlinder are the four defencemen battling for the final spot on the roster behind Mike Matheson, Kaiden Guhle, David Savard, Arber Xhekaj, Jordan Harris and Johnathan Kovacevic. Chris Wideman is out indefinitely with a back injury.

Savard said he likes the way the 6-foot-3, 220-pound Mailloux moves on the ice.

“He’s a pretty mobile D,” Savard said after Monday’s practice. “Good vision and he’s a big boy, so he can throw the body around if he needs to.”

As for Reinbacher, Savard said: “He looked really good. I think he moves well, he makes good decisions. I got the chance to skate just a few times with him. Really nice guy, too, in the room. Always smiling. He’s a good guy to be around and I think his future’s going to be really good.”

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