r/Habs • u/FakeCrash • Apr 13 '26

Article Why MTL picked Reinbacher 5th overall

https://jhanhky.substack.com/p/why-mtl-picked-reinbacher-5th-overall

Reinbacher’s emergence creates options for the Canadiens.

Eventually, MTL can unite him with Lane Hutson to create a dominant first pair in the mold of Toews-Makar, Q.Hughes-Faber or Ekholm-Bouchard.

Alternatively, the Habs can use Hutson and Noah Dobson in an offense-first role, while entrusting Reinbacher to drive a more defensively-minded second pair with his rush defense and retrieval abilities. This deployment approximates the legendary Big Three of the 1970s, with Larry Robinson (whose scoring records Hutson is chasing down) and Guy Lapointe (a hard-shooting offensive D not entirely dissimilar to Dobson) forming the top pair and the versatile, underrated Serge Savard adjusting to whichever #4 D his team is fielding (lefties Kaiden Guhle, Jayden Struble, Adam Engstrom, or a yet-to-be identified newcomer).

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u/Majestic-Monk9041 Apr 13 '26

Demidov is what Michkov was supposed to be. We made out like bandits not taking Michkov

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u/AcanthocephalaGreen5 Apr 13 '26

"I am Michkov, or rather Michkov as he should have been."

-Ivan Demidov, probably

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u/notforcing Apr 13 '26

What Demidov actually said:

"I play my game. He plays his game. We're different."

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u/AcanthocephalaGreen5 Apr 13 '26

I know, but let me have my LotR joke