Overview
- Montreal announced David Reinbacher sustained a broken metacarpal and will miss approximately four weeks.
- The injury occurred in the Sept. 25 preseason game at Toronto, where he exited midway through the contest and did not return.
- The timeline removes his chance to break camp with the NHL club, placing him on season‑opening IR before a likely reassignment to AHL Laval once cleared.
- Reinbacher, who has yet to debut in the NHL, has logged 21 AHL games across two seasons and missed much of 2024–25 following knee surgery.
- Montreal remains thin on natural right-shot defensemen for recalls, though coach Martin St. Louis and GM Kent Hughes expressed confidence this setback is manageable and that he can still log a full season when healthy.