Analysis of the kinds of injuries that may have felled Habs rookie David Reinbacher on Saturday came from sports injury specialist Dr. Harjas Grewal, who noted that Reinbacher may have a torn meniscus based on the twisting of his left knee. (David Reinbacher injury)
The Canadiens have a spate of injuries to deal with at the moment. Only 4 seconds into the preseason game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Reinbacher was laid out by Marshall Rifai with a big hit into the boards. He slipped and had to be helped by the medical personnel after the match to get off the ice.
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It even got worse when forward Patrik Laine had a knee-on-knee hit with Cedric Pare. Laine hobbled for a couple of minutes, could not step on his left leg, and looked quite irritated as he left the ice. After the end of the first period, the Canadiens said that David Reinbacher and Patrik Laine wouldn’t continue the game.
Reinbacher recorded only 13 seconds of ice time, while Laine was on the ice for 2:22 before departing.. The Canadiens were defeated, with the final score of the game being 2-1, Nicholas Robertson was the goal scorer for the Leafs. Offensively they performed poorly, the Canadiens failed to score a single goal on seven power-play opportunities.
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In the last season, Montreal Canadiens missed 2021- 22, man – games due to the injury of their players which increased further with man-games missed due to injury of its players in 2022-23 season were 751.
This was echoed by the coach Martin St. Louis in his post, the coach stated that even though they have been plagued with injuries the team needs to keep on moving forward. Bakersfield Condors’ captain Nick Suzuki did not consider this matter about jinx regarding injuries, stressed that such an incident is quite unfortunate, and added that such a collision is normal in the ice hockey sport. “It’s an unfortunate play,” Suzuki said (via montrealgazette.com).
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It’s out of the same that kind of zone entry happens often I must note. That is why I thought the guy lunged pretty hard and caught him clean. It stinks for Patty, and it stinks for our team.” After that hit, Canadiens’ player Arber Xhekaj challenged Pare to a fight which got both of them multiple penalties and left the team with only four defensemen for the rest of the game.
Some players like Mike Matheson noted this but were quick to downplay the feeling asking everyone to shift their attention toward the upcoming season. “That is very, very unfortunate,” Matheson said. “I am for running, training and all the drills before the beginning of the season but that was just awful.”
The Canadiens will play the Ottawa Senators in two preseason games before the start of their regular season game against the Maple Leafs. Audiences are waiting for news on David Reinbacher and Patrik Laine after they got hurt.
