David Reinbacher has been in Quebec for a few days now. He started working out with the Laval Rocket, and it was soon known that he would be making his game debut on Friday (thanks to Georges Laraque).
Furthermore, it’s Friday.
According to Anthony Marcotte, the Austrian will play his first regular-season professional game in North America tonight. He and Tobie Paquette-Bisson will be skating together.
When he trained earlier this week, he was with the Quebecer. William Trudeau and Logan Mailloux will also round out the top-4 on the blue line, logically enough.
Justin Barron and Olivier Galipeau should form the other duo, as the voice of the Rocket has confirmed that it is indeed Mattias Norlinder (the former eighth wonder of the world who had a big 2023 camp in Montreal) who will have to give up his place tonight.
The Rocket are currently in Belleville for an all-Ontario weekend. Tonight and tomorrow, Laval will be in Belleville… and on Sunday, it will be in Toronto.
How many of the three games will Reinbacher play? Will he play in two? I expect to see him tonight and Sunday.
Looking ahead to tonight’s game, I can’t say I expect to see him break everything. After all, the defenseman will have to get used to his new team and his new environment.
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