C’est très malheureux ce qui est arrivé à Reinbacher et être absent pendant 5 à 6 mois ralentira son développement, mais je crois toujours qu’il va rebondir et prouver que ses ennemis ont tort à l’avenir !
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I hope he does too but I’m not getting my hopes up either.
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I think he’ll be traded and forgotten like so many other picks.
Well he was probably going to be a project to begin with. The most elite defensemen usually require two years of development before making the NHL after being drafted and for guys like Bouchard it can often be 3. He still has time to iron out his game.
Personally I just want him to be a solid shut down guy who can contribute a bit offensively, I don’t ask that he becomes some offensive juggernaut (we already have Lane for that). He was probably overdrafted, but he can hopefully still perform a useful role on the team.
I think his knees are shot. Osgood-Schlatter disease. Back to back years with significant knee injuries. Time will tell but doesn’t look good.
Everyone here seems to forget about Markov. The thing is only time will tell and there is no point on being negative.
I am much less optimistic if I’m being honest.
I turned a corner on him not too long ago as someone who was initially disappointed that we would pass on an elite scorer like Michkov, but soon saw the potential benefit of a no-nonsense RD solidifying the Dzone. You need that type of player to win, there’s no doubt at all and I eventually saw some rationale in drafting him.
Reinbacher if he hits his potential would definitely make for a solid anchor at RD, but the more time passes I hover back to my original stance which is that taking Reinbacher at 5th will come back to bite us in the ass. He’s had 3 major knee injuries now with all the missed development time that goes along with it, and frankly hasn’t really impressed as far as what we’ve seen of him when he has played. This year was majorly important for his development with him projected to play lots of big minutes in Laval, but that’s more or less a wash at this point.
It’d be a fortunate outcome for him to even make it as an NHL regular; I now have serious doubts that he will be any sort of a difference maker on the backend for MTL. Any further wrenches in his system could spell curtains for a meaningful pro career, so the Habs basically need absolutely everything to go right from this moment forward, in order for him to still have that potential IMO.
I would like to be wrong about this and pleasantly surprised with a major upswing and I don’t have anything against the guy, but my gut says passing on Michkov or Leonard in favour of an unremarkable and now thrice-injured RD was a whiffjob.
Just my random 2cents from an armchair and hopefully I eat my words!
The next Oli Juolevi
In one of the episodes of the Rebuild, there was this part that some fans who wanted us to draft someone else will actually wish he’d fail, just to prove them right. It was about Slaf, but reading these comments, it applies even more to David.
I’m absolutely convinced he’ll rip it up in the NHL one day and I’ll be once again laughing in your faces