David Reinbacher has signed a new contract with the Montreal Canadiens.

He’s gonna be a great player.

W Hughes.

David........ Reinbacher
-Price

Going to be very good

He better spend the 2023-24 season in the AHL.

I really hope no one votes no on this one.

I think they have 9 games before it is considered a season, so maybe try him out in the NHL for a bit.

1000 IQ to sign him this early

Nawh, there's no room. Give him another year in Europe

But is it really a good idea to sign your high first round draft picks?

We’re signing David.

All in all I don’t fully understand all the frustration with the pick. I think he’s going to be a fine player when all said and done.

STACKED in 2024/2025

Matheson-Savard

Ghule-Reinbacher
Hutson-Mailloux
Xhekaj-Barron
Harris-Struble

Trudeau-Kovacevic
Engstrom

HABS are going to need to trade some of them for fowards.... LET'S GOOOO!

Wwwwwwww

In this case yes because not it's slide eligible for 2 years.

because Reinbacher is the safe pick while Michkov is the franchise star or bust pick.

He isn’t going to bust, and I doubt he stays in Russia long term because no Russian superstar has done that since the Berlin Wall fell.

My issue with the signing is that they didn’t take Michov. It just seems like Hughes and Gorton has done everything they can to minimize the impact of their top picks. After all, the five guys taken immediately after Slafkovsky are all better than the former #1 overall pick. Then you have the Dach and Newhook trades where Montreal overpaid for non-premium talents. Franchise looks like a mess rn imo.

I might just be higher on him than most, but I feel people are sleeping on Reinbacher’s ceiling. Granted, Hughes’ comments weren’t that reassuring.

Leafs fan here. Don’t rush the judgement. Never know how 17,18,19 year old kids are gonna turn out. Remember how Strome was drafted higher than Marner? Or how the leafs were crazy not to take Hanifin? Or how about Edmonton getting a steal in Puljujarvi after Columbus surprising us all and taking PLD??!
I rag on the Habs all the time, but the Michkov pick was certainly high risk.

I just feel like they didn’t get a sure thing in Slaf or Reinbacher either. Maybe they are higher floor guys, but they don’t come without risk.

I know a large chunk of Habs fans hated the pick, but Reinbacher is extremely talented and is the one thing Montreal's insane prospect pool lacked. A future of him and Hutson on the back end while Caufield, Suzuki, Roy, Beck, Mesar, Farrell, and others fill out the forward group is scary. The Habs will be a great team in a few years time

I suspect the optics of Montreal's recent draft picks look a lot better if they didn't galaxy-brain the Slafkovsky pick and just took one of Wright or Cooley. Going back-to-back on the wings with the high-end draft picks probably didn't sit well with someone in management, even if Michkov was the BPA.

I still think Reinbacher is a great pick. I'm hoping Montreal found their Seider in that man.

I like the player, but I think the bigger issue is that they have passed on the BPA in back to back drafts. Also trading the draft capital they did for Dach and Newhook was even worse than their drafting imo.

I can agree that the trades look bad, but Dach was on pace for a 58-point season on a team so thoroughly devastated by injuries. It will be hard to evaluate that trade over the short term if he finds a bit more growth in the Canadians organization and hovers around that 60 point mark over his career. Unless Nazar breaks through into the NHL like a bat out of hell, or Gavin Hayes does likewise, that trade could end up being a wash long-term.

I actually think the Canadiens are going to win the Newhook deal even if he never exceeds third-line production. Losing the high second round selection stings a bit but towards the back third of the first round is when you start consistently finding middle-six to third-line talents.

We, especially as fans that are so much more zoomed in on the salary cap and the draft, need to be very careful about making sure we aren't overvaluing draft picks and prospects right out of the draft. It's new toy syndrome. If we look back to the 2018 draft between picks #20 and #40, I can pick out five players (Miller, Sandin, Samuelsson, Romanov, McLeod) in that range that meet or exceeded third line/bottom pairing quality. In 2017, there were also five (Thomas, Chytil, Yamamoto, Oettinger, and Robertson; jury still out on Frost) players in that range that exceeded that same benchmark. Only Thompson, Kyrou, and DeBrincat clear that same hurdle in 2016. Everyone else picked in that range is either a bottom-of-the-roster piece or won't be an NHL regular. I think Montreal did fine moving the Florida first for Newhook, the additional second was a bit gratuitous.

Can the Leafs have Xhekaj?