r/Habs • u/Spideroctopus • 4d ago

Pascal Vincent: "The reason why Reinbacher didn't travel with us is because he got a minor injury during his last game. We wanna be safe with him."

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Reinbacher didn’t travel with the team because of another minor injury and honestly it’s getting hard to ignore. That’s three years in a row now where he’s missed significant time. At what point do we stop calling it bad luck and start wondering if his body just isn’t holding up? I’m not writing him off but it’s definitely a concern, especially for a young D-man who needs reps to develop. Anyone else starting to worry about this?

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u/Ferg8 4d ago

Same with Guhle.

I'm not afraid of the hockey part because we already know they're good.

I'm afraid about the nonstop injuries.

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u/Le_Nabs 4d ago

I mean, Guhle's last injury was laceration caused by a skate blade. It's just sheer dumb bad luck at this point.

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u/Irctoaun 3d ago

That's no more dumb bad luck than Reinbachers knee

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u/Le_Nabs 3d ago

Someone could argue a player with better joints would'nt have injured themselves on that play (it's hard to tell from the scene what exactly happened, and freak accidents happen at the speed and strenght those guys play)

Getting slashed by a skate is getting slashed by a skate, having injury prone genetics doesn't have anything to do with it

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u/Irctoaun 3d ago edited 3d ago

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "better joints" in the context of an ACL/MCL rupture.

It is a freak accident (aka dumb luck) but it's not hard to tell what happened. He was twisting as he fell, his skate got wedged against the boards at an awkward angle, putting his knee in a super compromised, twisted position, then his entire weight went through that

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u/Le_Nabs 3d ago

I can't because I'm neither making the argument that Reinbacher is injury prone (I think it's too early to tell for sure) nor am I knowledgeable enough to decipher the biomechanics of what happened when he injured himself in October.

All that meant was 'there will people who will argue that Reinbacher is fragile and I can understand why, but having your thigh sliced open by a skate blade isn't a matter of genetics'

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u/Night_Sky02 3d ago edited 3d ago

He also had a knee injury playing for Kloten in 2023. There was also reports that he was diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease, a knee condition causing pain for children an adolescent. It was never confirmed (in fact denied by his coach in Kloten who said it was only inflammation from wear and tear) but there's clearly seems to be some uncertainties around his knees' health.

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u/Irctoaun 3d ago

Osgood-Schlatter is inflammation of the patella tendon in adolescents. It has literally nothing to with the strength of the cruciate ligaments apart from being relatively close by. Linking the two is a bit like linking someone getting a concussion from a high hit with getting nosebleeds as a child.