Overview

• Montreal announced David Reinbacher suffered a broken metacarpal in Thursday’s preseason game against the Maple Leafs and exited midway without returning.
• The club provided a four-week timetable for recovery, describing the injury as a straightforward issue.
• Reinbacher missed 56 games last season after a preseason knee injury that required surgery, and he has yet to make his NHL debut.
• He finished last season with AHL Laval, posting 5 points in 10 regular-season games and 6 points in 13 Calder Cup playoff contests.
• The setback compounds blue-line absences across the organization, with AHL defenders William Trudeau and Joshua Jacobs also injured, while Noah Dobson was noted as day-to-day and Kaiden Guhle was held out for maintenance.